Looking Back on 2024 – Looking Forward to 2025

[SlyFlourish]

I'm spending some time thinking back over the news and notable products of 2024 and thinking about what I'm looking forward to in 2025.

Here's my list!

What are yours?

Big Things in 2024

• D&D 2024 Player's Handbook and Dungeon Master's Guide
• Tales of the Valiant (Adventurer's Guide, Monster Vault, Gamemaster's Guide)
• Black Flag SRD
• D&D 2024 on Foundry (and Roll20 and Fantasy Grounds)
• Shadow of the Weird Wizard
• D&D Beyond Publishes Third-Party Products Including Lord of the Rings
• Shadowdark Continues its Popularity
• City of Arches Kickstarter and PDF release!
• Lots of words about AI and D&D
• At WOTC – several layoffs, executive shifts, and a "do you like me" survey that disappears quickly

Looking Forward to 2025

• Release of the 2025 D&D Monster Manual
• Release of the 5.2 SRD
• 13th Age V2
• Dolmenwood physical books
• Shadowdark Cursed Scroll Kickstarter
• Draw Steel
• Daggerheart
• Cosmere

 

[mamba]

Your 2024 and 2025 have a few more items than mine, but we seem to be largely in sync. I'll add two of my 2025/26 list, the Goodman Games take on 5e (Advanced Advantage 5e) and Mike Mearls' version of it (Odyssey engine? product unnamed)

 

[The Soloist]

I spent to much money on RPGs I didn't end up liking in 2024. Will try to do better in 2025. More research, less hype, less FOMO.

 

[Zaukrie]

13th Age and Nimble excite me for next year, we'll see how I feel about the MM, but I have my doubts I'll love it at this point.

I am interested in Draw Steel (which I've ordered), but I bet my friends and I will never play it.......

I HOPE next year I get out my series of NPC PDFs, but we'll see. I have been posting my many different initiative systems on my blog, but no one seems to be going, so I've stopped for a bit while I transition to writing about caring for aging parent(s) as several people have asked me to start doing that so they can prep.

 

[Zaukrie]

Also, maybe I'll finish one of my novels, or re-write the finished one.....

 

[overgeeked]

Looking forward to Dungeon Denizens for DCC RPG, Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme, Discworld RPG, Daggerheart, the D&D 5.2 SRD and all the other SRDs we were promised, more from Pirate Borg, more from Shadowdark, more from Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG.

 

[delericho]

I'm suddenly hopeful I might get to play again in 2025. Which would be awesome.

 

[delericho]

Oops. Double post.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Looking forward to Monster Manual 2025, the new Shadowdark Kickstarter, the big Pirate Borg expansions Kickstarter fulfilling and (finally) the Heroes of the Borderland starter set. Lots of good gaming ahead.

 

[darjr]

Among many things already mentioned I’m looking forward to the OSRIC 3 crowdfund in March.

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