What are your TTRPG Goals for 2025?

[Reynard]

It is a new year! Let's talk about out goals for 2025 as they relate to our TTRPG love, hobby and (if applicable) business/profession.

First and foremost I want to make sure i get more at-the-table time. I love being able to play with far flung friends remotely, but I definitely prefer in-person gaming. My regular group that has been online since Covid is finally taking real steps toward getting back together in person. Hopefully it pans out.

After a lot of time with Shadowdark, I want to refocus my own GMing and design on Savage Worlds (SWADE). I love SWADE and think it is a great game for a wide variety of types of campaigns. I have a hundred long gestating ideas for publications, too, after spending a number of years doing freelance with the system. here's hoping.

Finally, and this is more of an excitement than goal, I am looking forward to the final release of Daggerheart and putting that game through its paces to see if there is there there.

What do you have on deck for 2025?

 

[payn]

Copied over from first thread on topic:

Fun! Im not sure I have ten, but will challenge myself.

1. Work diligently on my narrative semi-competitive Battletech event at the next KSAGG (Battletech convention held in Minneapolis in December). This year I had about 3 months total to plan for a 10 hour full day event with 20 players. It went over really well, but I also learned some lessons and am the type to try and raise the bar. Thus, I got plenty of work to do!
2. More Battletech. I am going to Adepticon in Milwaukee in March. Im including it in my TTRPG list because the game im looking to sign up for is a narrative experimental ruleset. My primary interest is ive seen the ruleset documents and I think experimental is a good description. I spent about 40 hours writing my own rule set version of a similar idea. Hoping to mine this event at Adepticon for my own purposes.
3. Continue building out material ahead of my Traveller 'goose 2E Pirates of Drinax Sandbox campaign. We are playing VTT bi-weekly. I just want to prep well so I can focus on being the best Ref I can during game sessions.
4. Hoping to get my weekly PF1 game back on track. We were cruising along nicely on the War for the Crown AP when life happened and now we meet inconsistently with some pretty large gaps. Rarely do I get to play in game systems and campaigns that are of high interest to me.
5. Mini painting. Branching out from Battletech and into more fantasy and sci-fi sculpts. I got 3-4 Reaper Bones packages unopened waiting for paint! I also need to work on my airbrush techniques.
6. More Bladerunner to the table. Doesnt matter if I GM or play. I have had this set for some time and just havent been able to stretch it out yet.
7. One shot Cowboy Bebop. Always the intention of this being a once a year game for myself. I got all the goodies from the kickstarter. I just really need to sit down with it and find some time to learn gamemastering it and set up a one shot adventure. Oh, and find some fellow Beboppers too.
8. One shot Call of Cthlhu. Maybe prepare for a Halloween season one shot. Havent played in a really long time and im kinda getting the itch.
9. Try to hit some learn to play events for TTRPGs im kinda aorta interested in but would likley never play. Stuff like Terminator and/or G.I. Joe etc..
10. Continue to have nice discussions here at EN World on RPG topics and get less caught up in who is right arguments. (under way!)

 

[aco175]

I think last year's goal was to publish 12 modules on DMsGuild and I think I reached 8. Maybe this year I should aim for 8 and if I make 6, that might be enough.

We might be starting a new campaign this summer when my son is out of college. We have been playing the last campaign for 1.5 years now and it might be getting time. Maybe a time to get into the new rules.

I'll be DMing at the local convention in February this year and think it will be fun. I have been wanting to spread out some the last year and seeing the threads of people who have clubs at libraries and in schools makes me want to give back.

 

[Reynard]

Copied over from first thread on topic:

D'oh! I somehow missed it.

Fun! Im not sure I have ten, but will challenge myself.

1. Work diligently on my narrative semi-competitive Battletech event at the next KSAGG (Battletech convention held in Minneapolis in December). This year I had about 3 months total to plan for a 10 hour full day event with 20 players. It went over really well, but I also learned some lessons and am the type to try and raise the bar. Thus, I got plenty of work to do!
2. More Battletech. I am going to Adepticon in Milwaukee in March. Im including it in my TTRPG list because the game im looking to sign up for is a narrative experimental ruleset. My primary interest is ive seen the ruleset documents and I think experimental is a good description. I spent about 40 hours writing my own rule set version of a similar idea. Hoping to mine this event at Adepticon for my own purposes.

I got into Battletech a litle bit after playing it at origins last summer. i wish i had a regular table I could get to so i can play more.

 

[payn]

D'oh! I somehow missed it.

No worries, and I didnt mean to make it sound redundant, im actually happy to repost as I want to hear more from folks on this topic!

I got into Battletech a litle bit after playing it at origins last summer. i wish i had a regular table I could get to so i can play more.

Got a campaign game tonight at the FLGs. Cant wait! Im also going to Adepticon in Milwaukee in March. It's a slow but growing community and I love BT's current renaissance.

 

[overgeeked]

Run and play more Dragonbane, DCC RPG, Mothership, Pirate Borg, Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme, and Discworld.

Make and sell stuff for Dragonbane and some OSR games.

 

[coralwave]

improve my pacing as a GM, get at least 4 different systems to the table, cancel less than 10% of the sessions (hopefully)

 

[thullgrim]

• Shrink my physical rpg library.
• Focus on one or two game systems for the year. Probably GURPS and SWADE but possibly Shadowdark (see the next bullet).
• Run something OSR adjacent. Right now I’m debating what that means to me, and what system to use. Contenders are a SWADE hack (using Gold and Glory as the base) GURPS Dungeon Fantasy, or Shadowdark.
• I’d like to get 40-45 sessions in this year of my weekly VTT game.

By the end of the year I’d like to have a definite plan in place for concentrating my gaming hobby on certain systems.

Finally, I play mini-wargames bi-weekly. I’d like to get my Age of Sigmar Nighhaunt army done and painted this year, and either my Khorne or Grey Knight army for 40k done and painted as well.

 

[Reynard]

• Run something OSR adjacent. Right now I’m debating what that means to me, and what system to use. Contenders are a SWADE hack (using Gold and Glory as the base) GURPS Dungeon Fantasy, or Shadowdark

Out of curiosity, is your goal more feel or actual playstyle replication> Shadowdark does the latter pretty well, but your could probably get the former from SW G&G.

 

[cbwjm]

I wouldn't mind running something.