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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 8173407" data-attributes="member: 6796661">My gaming related resolutions, and progress so far, for 2021:1. Reduce and focus.I tried to start running a second campaign near the end of the year, just as work started to get even more crazy. Both campaigns suffered, especially as one was for a complicated system without any pre-written adventures and I just didn't have time to properly learn the new system, create the setting and adventures, plus prep for my sessions with my other campaign. I became a chore. So I dropped to new campaign to focus on the ongoing one.2. Less money on KickstartersCame back from my recent trip abroad (for work), went through the boxes of fulfilled Kickstarters to make sure everything arrived in order and undamaged, and put them on my shelf for whenever I have time to use books or accessories.  One of the more expensive items (infinite scroll maps--very cool, but useless now that I'm only running games online) I just left in the shipping box and through in the closet.  Given the current amount of time I have to run games, I have enough stuff to run games for years. Also, COVID and work travel has led me to running my games with a VTT, so it'll be a loooong time before I have a chance to use most of the physical terrain, minis, physical maps, etc. I have stuffed into storage.3. Re-allocate my Kickstarter budget to VTT-content creators and making my DM prep easierThe VTT I use is Foundry VTT, hosted by The Forge. Foundry has a great developer community and I am supporting, mostly via Patreon. So far this has been mostly for plugins and tools, like the excellent stuff that Virtual Table Top Assets (vttassets.com) is putting out.But some of these creators, as well as the hosting company I use (The Forge), put out fully prepped adventures that take full advantage of all the features my VTT platform has to offer. And, wow, does it make things easy to run. I see all these new gaming 'zines coming out, adventures on D&D Beyond, EN5ider, etc. and all I see now is "more work for me."  I don't want to pay for more PDFs or books that I then have to work into my VTT.  I have shelves and Google Drive's full of that stuff and it will take years before I ever get to use most of it.  At this point, I am only buying adventures where there is at least digital assets included. At a minimum battlemaps and tokens. Fully prepped maps with walls, lighting, etc. would be nice as well.</blockquote>

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