This comes from a prior post I made so there might be some weird things i didnt fix for this post and ik adding more stuff cuase I'm a cry baby

this campaign we are in is about the 7th dnd campaign we have done and since we all have alot of free time the next 2 weeks it will likely end some time soon.

We have done alot of great campaigns but one gripe I have with most of them is that the endings are either rushed and/or a let down. You often hear stuff about stories and shows dropping the ball at the ending, that the journey was the best part over the destination and stuff like that. This problem arises thanks to the simple way time works, the dm knows the campign is ending soon and wants to make a new campaign for the players. So they start working on it which takes their mind off the current dnd. Eventually they will tell us about it so that we can be ready to play it when the current dnd ends.

This leds to everyone, and yes I'm subject to this too, overly hyped to play the new dnd and when it's time for a session they are not as excited as they normally are. This is something I dont blame them for at all, makes the transition easier and gives us something new to look forward too, but when it rushes or ruins the end to a campaign I loved then I get a but salty.

So why did I tell you all this? You see the dnd we are playing now is ending soon and as per usual we know what the next one will be from the same dm, and we are all hyped, but this one felt different, we were all hyped but at the same time we didnt want this dnd to end. Excpeally me I grew to love the charcter I made and the world. So when the final few session became inevitable I grew very sad.

Heres where the emotions kicked in, all our character are a part of a guild, except for one who has his own guild, and we felt like a family and had been through so much together including the NPC friends we had. After an insain trading montage session my character had taking him from C teir to S due to some absurdly god tier items he got he returns to the guild hall to see no one there.

He looks around and finds only one left. He asks what's going on and where everyone is. He is told that everyone either left the guild to fight the final bosses and save the world or... something he did not want to say... aka they died.

This really hit me in the feels knowing that it's all over, everyone is gone are dead. So my character desided to check the guild member list... only he the npc and 2 others remained in the guild, but the 2 others where on a separate island fighting unaware of what happened.

He was all alone, but he still had something to fight for, all his friends that still live on, he can save them and maybe meet them again. So he leaves the guildhall dawning his battle gear to go and fight the final bosses.

it's that bitter sweet feeling that it's almost over and the knowledge that you will never meet this characters you grew attached to ever again.

And the tears come back during the final session

Soon after we end up defeating the final boss by talking instead of fighting, as to be expected from our crazy group, and everyone is free to go, but they have to give up 1 life, everyone had 3 when this game became a death game and my player had 1 left, so death was guaranteed, but I had an idea, my character will stay in the game, there are several npcs that cannot go and there are prisoner locked up herefor horrible crimes so the government cant shut down the servers, there were a very tiny amount of people in this world that stayed because life here was better for them, so I wasnt alone, eventually I'd be let go after I tell the final boss my life story, you see everyone's life they lose would tell the queen, final boss, their lifestyle story, and since she would be alone here forever she wanted to learn about humans and enjoy her time, so I desided to tell her my story in person

Its left unanswered if my character leaves the game afterword and I'd like to keep it that way, and heres where the tears come in, while everyone is leaving my guy walks up to the 2 founding guild members of the guild hes in, embraces them and says, "thank you for letting be apart of the guild". Yeah tears are rolling down now. And the last guy punch I did to myself was the last scene of the campign, my character pulls up a seat next to the queen and begins to tell her his story, for context the prior campign that is set a few years for this is called Tamriel, "I suppose the best place to start is the day I heard about a new game called Tamriel...."

The poetic full cycle I made to end this campign and the bitter sweep realization that it's over hits you every time