Micah Sweet
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Looking Back on 2024 – Looking Forward to 2025
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Arilyn
Hero
2024:
Ran Old Gods of Appalachia which was a blast, despite some qualms about the system.
Running Brindlewood Bay. Lots of fun
Got to play in lots of Shadowdark. Not as lethal as its reputation, as long as players are careful and treat combat as a last resort! Ran a pulp mode Shadowdark with Theros.
Am also a player in Vaesen. Great game.
2025:
Waiting for physical copy of Dolmenwood. So excited for it
Really hoping to get my Star Trek FAE game up and running
Also excited for @SlyFlourish City of Arches. Going to run it with Level Up
And really hoping Stonetop comes out this year!
I may also get to play Ars Magica again. Been too long.
Ran Old Gods of Appalachia which was a blast, despite some qualms about the system.
Running Brindlewood Bay. Lots of fun
Got to play in lots of Shadowdark. Not as lethal as its reputation, as long as players are careful and treat combat as a last resort! Ran a pulp mode Shadowdark with Theros.
Am also a player in Vaesen. Great game.
2025:
Waiting for physical copy of Dolmenwood. So excited for it
Really hoping to get my Star Trek FAE game up and running
Also excited for @SlyFlourish City of Arches. Going to run it with Level Up
And really hoping Stonetop comes out this year!
I may also get to play Ars Magica again. Been too long.
sevenbastard
Hero
I wish I could distribute copies of it. But I respect the whole copyright thing. I did send a copy to WOTC with a letter asking them to consider publishing it. I don't want money I just want people to have it.
Plus I did a one book version and a version separated with players info and dm info in separate books.
schneeland
Hero
2024:
- Two steady groups, one playing Savage Worlds/Sprawlrunners, one Call of Cthulhu/Pulp Cthulhu - both are great and I continue to enjoy being merely a player; also, playing once a week (both groups play bi-weekly) seems like a good, sustainable pace next to other hobbies and obligations
- Purchase/crowdfunding-wise the three big ones for me were Coriolis: The Great Dark, Dolmenwood and Outgunned Adventure - based on the current material, I have mixed feelings about the first one, but especially Dolmenwood coming to life made me very happy, and though I wish things had turned out differently, I'm also glad, the Broken Compass IP came back to 2LM.
- With my D&D5 campaign having closed in 2022, I continue to drift out of the "current D&D" as nothing since Tasha has really captured my attention. Unfortunately this goes hand in hand with a further reduction in my activities on ENWorld. The OSR remains a touch point with the general "D&D sphere", though.
- I look forward to receiving print material for the aforementioned systems and I hope I will get to play or run a bit of Dolmenwood.
- It looks like Old-School Essentials will get a German version next year, and it's likely that I will buy it. I'm tentatively interesting in Alien Evolved Edition, and I might also get the Pendragon GM's Guide. Furthermore, Cubicle 7 has announced that we'll see more of the RPG for Warhammer The Old World in 2025, but it'll depend on the details if I want to get the game or not.
- Apart from that, I'll try to get deeper into Foundry and will hopefully be able to run at least a game here and there again for the people I regularly play with.
Corinnguard
Hero
They're all based off of the 5e chassis, just as Pathfinder was built off of the 3.0e/3.5e chassis. The 5e-adjacent companies probably believe that building their RPG off of another more successful RPG is something of a winning strategy.
Back to the topic du jour:
I am looking forward to backing GPG's 2024 annual when it launches in January 2025 and getting my hands on the 5.5e Forgotten Realms Player's Guide. Ditto for getting the physical copies of Ryoko's Guide to the Yokai Realms, Caliya's Chronicle of Runes and Book of Spirits: An Ethereal Supplement for 5e.
Looking back at 2024, I am happy that I got to try out Level Up: Gateway.
BookTenTiger
He / Him
My gaming scene in 2024 was pretty wimpy. I ran an online Ironsworn game with friends about a half dozen times, and that's about it. Still, it was a nice way to keep up with old buddies!
We moved to a century-old home with no soundproofing a few years back, and I have a 3 year old who naps and has an early bedtime, so it's been difficult to figure out a way to host games. I also haven't found a lot of other people who play D&D in the area... And I haven't had a ton of free time in the last year! So playing TTRPGs is a hobby I've more or less put on hold.
2025 will probably be pretty similar. I'm trying to prioritize some of my other hobbies, like writing and ceramics, over playing D&D, so that's where my limited free time is going.
On the other hand, in February I'm renting a cabin with some old friends in the redwoods so we can play D&D all night and go hiking all day. So that'll be fun!
We moved to a century-old home with no soundproofing a few years back, and I have a 3 year old who naps and has an early bedtime, so it's been difficult to figure out a way to host games. I also haven't found a lot of other people who play D&D in the area... And I haven't had a ton of free time in the last year! So playing TTRPGs is a hobby I've more or less put on hold.
2025 will probably be pretty similar. I'm trying to prioritize some of my other hobbies, like writing and ceramics, over playing D&D, so that's where my limited free time is going.
On the other hand, in February I'm renting a cabin with some old friends in the redwoods so we can play D&D all night and go hiking all day. So that'll be fun!
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