Howdy folks! The last two years of regular GMing has finally worn me out. I've been trying to come up with a new Star Wars adventure and the cistern is dry. I've started three separate adventures that I've been unable to finish to a sufficient degree where I would have anything to run. But it's not just the Star Wars. Running one decent and a couple abortive campaigns plus organizing the Run Club plus Worldwide Adventure Writing Month have just drained the batteries. So I'm going to take a little bit of a break from wearing the viking hat.
The players in my group have been supercool about this decision. I'm hoping someone else will GM for a while, but maybe we'll do some boardgaming or something instead for a while. Either way, right now I don't have any plans to GM anything prior to the Winter War convention in February, where I'll be running some Encounter Critical and OD&D.
And the ol' Gameblog is gonna be a little less active for a while. My place of employment is merging with its number one local competitor this weekend and the job looks to blow up big and stupid starting next week. I foresee at least a short period where I just don't have much time for blogging. I've got a couple half-written entries that I will be rolling out hopefully soon, but look for less weekday entires and maybe more weekend blogging.
This isn't a goodbye post. I'm not signing off. But I wanted to let everyone know what was going on. That way if a week or so went by without a blog update no one would be wondering if I was dead or something. Everybody stay awesome during any absences, okay?
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Yikes - I hope the job stuff settles down soon. And I'm a big fan of just taking a break when GM burnout starts to take hold. May it refresh your batteries and start the ideas flowing again!
ReplyDeleteSo how are gonna use for inspiration now??!!??
ReplyDeleteSeriously, take a break, regenerate those stressed GM tendancies and just enjoy playing for a while... good luck
Take a break, Jeff! It's the best thing you can do. We'll be here waiting for you when you come roaring back, full of ideas and enthusiasm!
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Enjoy the break, but keep feelin' for that itch to return :)
ReplyDeleteMy GMing:Playing ratio (ideal) is right around 4:1 ... if my gaming ever gets me in a situation where I'm GMing more than 4 sessions to every session I play, it begins to wear on me a little because I needs me some player-time (plus, I think player-time is necessary to great GMing, for perspective reasons). I've never actually hit full burnout (because when I get close I scramble desperately and insert myself in the nearest play-group like some kind of alien parasite that does funny voices) but I definitely understand that it can happen.
Rest your brain, but keep feeding it :)
Gah! The new logo on your building is awful. Who came up with that?
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