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[brushwolf]

I really want to run a roleplaying game. I have story ideas which I think would be really fun to build into big, developed stories and interactive theater, and having that as a way to interact with friends and not be so alone on Friday nights would be really good. Part of the joy of roleplaying games is that they're never anyone's expected narrative; as though Chekov's gun shows up in Act I, but then it never becomes significant, or it becomes important in Act III because someone plants it to frame guilt for the mystery or pawns it for money.

The only problem is that being a fair improvisational storyteller and troupe director is a lot of work. I can't do it for all that long.

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Well...

[ysabetwordsmith]

Perhaps you could run a short campaign, with a specific end goal, for maybe a month or so? Then take a break, and do the same thing another time when you have energy again.

Re: Well...

[brushwolf]

Games expand so I'd need to be very careful about that. The last time I tried to run Werewolf the Apocalypse a short campaign arc expanded outwards before I burned out... and the only time I ran 4e Gamma World was a one-shot that could have become a short campaign arc (but the players decided they'd rather do Shadowrun).