2005 New Year's (Gaming) Resolutions

[scourger]

2005 gaming resolutions

1. Continue to make the G-A-M-E more about P-L-A-Y and less W-O-R-K.

2. Run Shackled City adventures with jedi, judges, mutants & aasimar paladins added until it is finished or abandoned.

3. Play Star Wars: RPG & Minis. Listen to books on tape. Watch movies, too. All of it.

4. Continue to decrease my gaming holdings by passing along the stuff I know I'll never use to other hobbyists (read: sell on eBay).

5. Run the best of the best adventures, for any of a variety of games, when #2 is done.

6. Avoid another episode of my DM embargo if possible.

7. Avoid a player boycott at all costs.

8. Remember resolution #1.

 

[Legion666]

Like Zappo, I too have a long minded campaign which I've been crafting since 1999.....lots-o-details. However, I still can't decide upon the format, whether it be short story, online pc game, or just alot of information for the table. So, my resolution for 2005 is to continue on and let it go where it may, I don't know maybe all three.

 

[NiTessine]

My first New Year's resolution for 2005.

My second New Year's resolution for 2005.

My third New Year's resolution for 2005 would be to try and run games more often, ideally on a weekly basis.

My fourth New Years' resolution for 2005 is to try and actually, you know, use some of that stuff I've bought over the years. Except Drakar & Demoner. I won't even bother trying to inflict that upon my players.

 

[MonsterMash]

Gaming related:

• Play more often
• Play Conan RPG as a player
• GM D&D and Conan RPG
• Finish writing the 3 part written scenarios I have

Outside gaming:
Sort out my life, which will make all the gaming ones far easier to achieve.

 

[Keeper of Secrets]

1. Run better games. Always look for improvement

2. When I go to GenCon, force myself to make some choices with my time and don't try to do everything.

3. Write more reviews.

 

[Evilhalfling]

1. Talk to the current DM about what I am unhappy with
2. Run a new campaign, focused on what the players like.
3. find a way to balance running a campaign and 12 hrs of grad school classes&wife&job
4. use more RW insperation, as this has produced my faviorate senerios and sessions.

 

[Qlippoth]

My 2005 goals:
1. PLAY! (as a PC);
2. Start up the world-building project I've been "researching" (i.e. reading mounds of material, picking what rules I like, drawing maps);
3. Call up some of the old friends and get my own game going for the first time in almost a decade.

 

[ivocaliban]

1) Stop buying crap I don't need. (Should have made one this a year ago!)

2) Finish the campaign I started in 2001. (Then I don't know what'll happen.)

3) Find someone else to DM so I can play a game for a change. (It's been years.)

 

[nopantsyet]

Mine are all about the DMing:

1. Exercise more precision in my execution of the rules. I've gotten a bit lax about this since I started my current campaign a year ago. It's got a more involved story line than any campaign I've previously run. So a number of NPCs and enemies got to do what I decided they could do without taking the time to actually work out the rules end of it.

2. Present more opportunities for PC development. With all the plot-related stuff going on, I have been forgetting to let the PCs do some sightseeing

3. Use more tactical strategy in combat. Sometimes I forget to take off the kid gloves...

 

[francisca]

1) Stop buying crap I don't need. (Should have made one this a year ago!)

Yes. Yes. Yes.

As a matter of fact, I plan to go a step further and eliminate 50% of what I have sitting on the shelf.

My other resolutions:

1) Be more organized for my bi-weekly game.
2) No TPKs in 2005, unless they really do something foolish and bring it upon themselves. (had a recent TPK which I shouldn't have allowed to happen. I feel pretty guilty about it, a rare thing for me.)
3) Write something that I feel is worthy of submission to a magazine or publisher, even if I don't submit it.
4) Run/play a game at GenCon with some of my fellow ENWorlders at GenCon and/or Origins.
5) Run something d20, which is not D&D. (Conan, Sidewinder: Recoiled, Darwin's World, New Argonauts, Legends of Excalibur all would be nice.)
6) Write and post reviews for at least 4 books.

Outside of D&D, I hope to spend some quality time with HeroScape.