Looking Back on 2024 – Looking Forward to 2025

[JEB]

Shadowdark Cursed Scroll Kickstarter

the Goodman Games take on 5e (Advanced Advantage 5e)

Wasn't aware of these, thanks!

 

[Retreater]

You know none of those things are actual problems right. In fact they’re almost all good things.

Not playing D&D when you don’t enjoy D&D is good.
Having foundry and not needing other VTTs is good.
Playing CoC and not needing to buy anything is good.
Playing PF2 and not feeling obliged to upgrade is good.

These are all good things.

I realize these aren't bad, but it does mean that it limits my engagement with the hobby and socialization with groups online. For example, I can't discuss any of the "new hotness" with folks on here.

I’m sorry 5e is not dead. It’s just been boosted to keep it fresh. It works fine with previous adventures and monsters. It is pret a manger. To say it is unsupported when it has been out for two months and is a minor change to the previous edition is nonsense.

I'm having a mess trying to mix and match 2014, Level Up, and 3rd party. I'd like to stick with one version. Adding 2024 into the pile would make it worse.
For example, I'm running Sly Flourish and MCDM lairs. They reference spells and powers that don't exist in Level Up.
I'd prefer to just have a "neat" experience where I don't have to flip through a lot of books, all organized in different ways, with alternative names for similar things.

 

[Clint_L]

I am a player in a Call of Cthulhu game. There's nothing to buy, nothing to engage with.

I'm switching from CoC to the new Arkham Horror TTRPG, and from my perspective, there's never been a better time to be a fan of Cthulhu-inspired TTRPGS!

One thing you could consider is buying some of C'mon Games' Cthulhu: Death May Die board games. These are fun games in their own right, but also come with a ton of awesome miniatures and terrain tiles that will work great with any Cthulhu RPG you care to run. And cosmic horror-type creatures = super fun to paint!

My big things for 2024 were the new D&D things, including getting access to 3PP on DDB, and the aforementioned Cthulhu stuff. For next year, the new MM, obviously, and I am intrigued by Daggerheart. I have big Kickstarter orders from Dwarven Forge and Dungeons and Lasers on the way.

But I'm sure my favourite thing next year will turn out to be something I never expected, as usual.

 

[TheSword]

I'm switching from CoC to the new Arkham Horror TTRPG, and from my perspective, there's never been a better time to be a fan of Cthulhu-inspired TTRPGS!

One thing you could consider is buying some of C'mon Games' Cthulhu: Death May Die board games. These are fun games in their own right, but also come with a ton of awesome miniatures and terrain tiles that will work great with any Cthulhu RPG you care to run. And cosmic horror-type creatures = super fun to paint!

My big things for 2024 were the new D&D things, including getting access to 3PP on DDB, and the aforementioned Cthulhu stuff. For next year, the new MM, obviously, and I am intrigued by Daggerheart. I have big Kickstarter orders from Dwarven Forge and Dungeons and Lasers on the way.

But I'm sure my favourite thing next year will turn out to be something I never expected, as usual.

Is Arkham Horror good? What are the upsides over CoC

 

[2KAD77]

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

It’s unlikely I’ll buy anything else from WotC. Very much looking forward to the Shadowdark Kickstarter!

 

[TheSword]

I realize these aren't bad, but it does mean that it limits my engagement with the hobby and socialization with groups online. For example, I can't discuss any of the "new hotness" with folks on here.

These boards are full of people espousing an opinion when they haven’t got a clue. I wouldn’t let it stop you. Though if you spent 2024 complaining about how you didn’t like D&D, complaining in 2025 about how you don’t get to talk about D&D is probably not going to be good for your soul. I can understand you finding it hard to settle. The good thing about the 2020’s TTRPG scene is that you don’t have to master everything. It’s fine to be a dilettante and dip in and out of things. Most of all I’m glad you’re getting to be a player in some games, that is awesome. I hope it recharges your batteries.

I'm having a mess trying to mix and match 2014, Level Up, and 3rd party. I'd like to stick with one version. Adding 2024 into the pile would make it worse.
For example, I'm running Sly Flourish and MCDM lairs. They reference spells and powers that don't exist in Level Up.
I'd prefer to just have a "neat" experience where I don't have to flip through a lot of books, all organized in different ways, with alternative names for similar things.

That was always going to be a problem when the 3rd party space fractured into a dozen 90% clones. All those 10%’s add up. That’s not your fault it’s just the consequences of the hubris of 3pp. We’ve taken the sensible approach to run core until the changes have bedded in then go back to 3rd party once we know what we want to improve. Other than adventures that is which I think are fine from 3pp.

 

[zottel]

Looking back:
Got almost all the LU:A5E books
Got most of the 5E books from WotC I want
The Monster Overhaul
Magical Industrial Revolution (might be my favorite book)
Glad I got a little into painting minis, not to play, just to paint and relax
Got a lot of people into playing RPGs, and one or two into running games themselves

Looking forward to:
Shadowdark Kickstarter
New Pirate Borg Kickstarter fulfilling, got the core stuff there as well
Delve
Monstrous Menagerie II in book form
City of Arches and all other Sly Flourish in book form
Not backing projects I am not really excited about, like Draw Steel and Unnatural Selection.

Adding what I hope to get run:
Shadowdark
Ten Candles
Pirate Borg

 

[Retreater]

One thing you could consider is buying some of C'mon Games' Cthulhu: Death May Die board games. These are fun games in their own right, but also come with a ton of awesome miniatures and terrain tiles that will work great with any Cthulhu RPG you care to run. And cosmic horror-type creatures = super fun to paint!

Thanks for the tip.
I do love painting minis - one of the few RPG related hobbies that brings me actual peace and joy. And C'mon makes some great minis.

 

[Retreater]

Most of all I’m glad you’re getting to be a player in some games, that is awesome. I hope it recharges your batteries.

I know in the past I've complained about my characters being ineffective, but in my last Pathfinder game, my character was finally able to contribute using his class abilities.

 

[sevenbastard]

Back: 5.5e is definitely not my style. To magical and super hero esq.

Forward: With every publisher, youtube star, and blogger making a 5e clone it creates hype fatigue. Much like durring 4e I will probably just go back to my homebrew rules, harder to find player but more fulfilling. Yup I complain about too many homebrew rules but then use that as my solution.

Half of me wants to embrace Shadowdark, but the other half of me wants to wait till the second edition (inevitable).