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How Often Do Your Campaigns Die of Attrition? (Patreon)

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2023-09-24 22:04:46
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Poll

How Often Do Your Campaigns Die of Attrition?

  • Always or often. We never finish them! 47
  • More than 50%. 70
  • Less than 50%. 24
  • Very rarely. We tend to finish what we start. 46
  • My campaign has been going for many years and it's still going strong. 16
  • 2023-09-24
  • —2023-09-29
  • 203 votes
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Content

How often do your campaigns die of attrition--or do they end as planned? I'm asking this on YouTube, FB. Looking forward to making this an episode. 

Comments

Bagel-Man

I’ve successfully run 2 campaigns but covid killed 1 and school has put 2 on hiatus

Jim Van Cura

Almost always. We are well intentioned when we start, but then come game day a lot of other things take priority. I run the game for my family on Sunday's, and too much gets in the way too often. For example, we just harvested apples from our apple tree and now we are peeling and coring them, processing them for cooking, making apple sauce, etc. It seems the things that come up are not the kind of things you can put off because the apples would rot otherwise. On the positive side, we spend quality time together doing the tri F (Forced Family Fun).

baldrage

If by "attrition," you mean a TPK, then OFTEN!

Avishai Menashe

Only ever *really* finished one campaign of 2 and a half years

Christopher Capone (Wicked Cool Games)

Nearly always finish. With our busy schedules we either play a campaign with a 6-12 month arc or a couple session one shot. One recent exception was a 3 year Traveller campaign.

Daniel Gray Webb

I have finished most of the campaigns I started.

Timothy S Wattigny

Not counting my playing as a kid in the early 80s, but since returning to gaming in 2022, all of the 5 Traveller campaigns I've joined have ended prematurely. Hoping the current Pirates of Drinax campaign breaks that streak.

NØKKEN_WAITS

I’m extremely blessed to be in two campaigns; the one I run has been going since 2020. The one I play in has been going since 2018. Plus an open table west marches CY_BORG game I run about once a month or so.

MrGunn
>>118272132

@Baldrage Considering the source, why am I not surprised... :P :D

MrGunn

Typically campaigns fizzle when I am the player, not so much when I GM.

Joe Cavalco

Although now a days we play until the end or at least a logical end, like a tpk. When I started out the attrition rate was really high.

Chuck Thorin

Usually it's scheduling. Oddly enough it was less of a problem prior to the pandemic and VTT's. I think a VTT just makes it easier to cancel.

Johnny Dickov Fagerberg
>>118272132

This is actually not directly what happens to us but more or less the effect of losing characters (and player engagement) When the Party dies off the players lose interest in the "Current" campaign and want to do something else - thus end the campaign. Some of that falls to the DM - as incorporating new characters need to be an integrated part of the throught. Good example of this is from Masks of Nyarlathotep (Call of Cthulhu) where a little Black book containing an uncertain number of character names the "quest giver" can call up if someone dies off. Hence adding more characters on the fly..... A bad example if Tomb of Annihilation (D5e) everything is so remote its HIGHLY unlikely that another person happen to come by both in the jungle and in the tomb it self. So be aware of that when you start a longer campaign - you need the good old "Threshold" town to add players.

Andrew

Since I've returned to the game after many years, the campaign I've begun has been going for nearly a year and a half now. Due to adult schedules, we are able to meet roughly once a month. My best friend has been spending time developing his own campaign world that he hopes to run for us online.

Kyle (saint)

Mine has been going for a long time with me as the DM. We have a few HC players with the rest of the party being rotating casuals.

Christian Lindke

"How often do your campaigns die of attrition--or do they end as planned?" In some ways, this is a strange question. I've never planned, at least not at inception, an end to a campaign. My campaigns tend to be series upon series of adventures in reaction to player character actions. I've had many campaigns end and become new campaigns without a formal ending. Sure, they finished the last adventure before moving on to different characters in a new game system, but there was no planned ending. My old gaming group played for 18 years, but we only played 1 "campaign." The rest of the gaming was short term adventures in non-D&D systems. Even when playing campaign, or narrative driven, products like Necessary Evil for Savage Worlds, our games continued after the end of that product's adventure. I also think I interpret campaign differently than a lot of other players might, particularly newer gamers. To me the "campaign" is what our gaming group does in a shared setting. It isn't a single adventure path or even a single generation of characters. Campaigning is what we do as a group within a setting. It may stop after 8 years or so within a particular setting, but that might also get picked up later as an alternative to what we had been doing recently. Campaigns are living things to me and not TV Seasons or Series, though there is nothing wrong with those as clumsy and reductive synonyms for what campaigns look like.

Mark Hanson

I didn't choose anything, because my campaign hasn't really been going on long. So far, I have run two. One did die because half the players didn't like the system, so I took the remaining players and we started over with a new campaign. This new campaign has only been going on for a few months. Also, you didn't have a 50/50 option.

Trooper134

I just started DM'ing again after a 20 year hiatus & have a group who has been playing Ice Spire Peak since January, I've added so many home-brew side quests its taken way longer than it should have & so far they love it & can't wait to face up against Cryovain.