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Time to start a new Campaign

I have been playing structured Role playing game like D&D and Gurps since I was barely 10. During the 1st year of playing that game I’ve discovered how much I liked being a DM.

24 years later, I’m still geeking out at the idea of starting a new campaign. We’ve been playing D&D 3.0/3.5 more or less every 2 weeks since 2000. We’ve played a total of 5 campaigns, some long (level 1-18 in 3 years) some much shorter (less than 3 months).

This fall, after a 2 year campaign characterized by many missed games and a DM that finally decided to tackle and recover from a severe depression, we decided that we needed to start a new one.

I’m pretty excited by the new campaign. Everyone seems to have made a character they really want to play and I’ve got a few ideas about the campaign’s backstory that are promising.

The Chatty DM is the "nom de plume" of gamer geek Philippe-Antoine Menard. He has been GMing various versions of D&D and other RPGs for nearly 30 years. A renowned RPG blogger, game designer and published author, he squats a corner of Critical Hits he affectionately calls "Musings of the Chatty DM." (Email Phil or follow him on Twitter.)

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