Ten TTRPG Goals for 2025

[RichGreen]

Hi there,

I’ve just posted a list of my RPG goals for 2025 on my blog and thought I’d crosspost them here too.

1. Do an awesome job on my next Kobold Press project and any other freelance game design work I get.

2. Write a new Tier 1 Adventurer’s League adventure for the UK set in Murghǒm and run it at UK Games Expo.

3. DM or help run the Epic at UK Games Expo.

4. Continue with my monthly Tomb of Annihilation campaign.

5. Run Curse of Skeleton Point for Pirate Borg for our Monday night group once we finish Buried in the Bahamas this January.

6. Play or run Shadow of the Weird Wizard – I’m looking forward to the Rise of the Goblin King campaign which could be fun to run on Mondays.

7. Play some new RPGs at Expo and Dragonmeet – Dragonbane, Liminal, and Shadowdark are at the top of my list.

8. Run a game for my wife Kate, maybe Electric Dreams from the Blade Runner starter set. I miss our 1:1 games!

9. Paint some minis. My eyesight isn’t what it used to be and are my hands aren’t as steady but I enjoyed painting a few grungs this year.

10. Create some new Parsantium content. Parsantium is one of the core worlds of the Labyrinth setting I worked on for Kobold Press, so it’s the perfect time to revisit the City at the Crossroads.

I’m treating this as an aspirational list as I’m not sure I’ll manage all of these! Hopefully I can achieve most of them, even if it’s in a small way.

What’s on your list of gaming goals?

 

[payn]

Fun! Im not sure I have ten, but will challenge myself.

1. Work diligently on my narrative semi-competitive Battletech event at the next KSAGG (Battletech convention held in Minneapolis in December). This year I had about 3 months total to plan for a 10 hour full day event with 20 players. It went over really well, but I also learned some lessons and am the type to try and raise the bar. Thus, I got plenty of work to do!
2. More Battletech. I am going to Adepticon in Milwaukee in March. Im including it in my TTRPG list because the game im looking to sign up for is a narrative experimental ruleset. My primary interest is ive seen the ruleset documents and I think experimental is a good description. I spent about 40 hours writing my own rule set version of a similar idea. Hoping to mine this event at Adepticon for my own purposes.
3. Continue building out material ahead of my Traveller 'goose 2E Pirates of Drinax Sandbox campaign. We are playing VTT bi-weekly. I just want to prep well so I can focus on being the best Ref I can during game sessions.
4. Hoping to get my weekly PF1 game back on track. We were cruising along nicely on the War for the Crown AP when life happened and now we meet inconsistently with some pretty large gaps. Rarely do I get to play in game systems and campaigns that are of high interest to me.
5. Mini painting. Branching out from Battletech and into more fantasy and sci-fi sculpts. I got 3-4 Reaper Bones packages unopened waiting for paint! I also need to work on my airbrush techniques.
6. More Bladerunner to the table. Doesnt matter if I GM or play. I have had this set for some time and just havent been able to stretch it out yet.
7. One shot Cowboy Bebop. Always the intention of this being a once a year game for myself. I got all the goodies from the kickstarter. I just really need to sit down with it and find some time to learn gamemastering it and set up a one shot adventure. Oh, and find some fellow Beboppers too.
8. One shot Call of Cthlhu. Maybe prepare for a Halloween season one shot. Havent played in a really long time and im kinda getting the itch.
9. Try to hit some learn to play events for TTRPGs im kinda aorta interested in but would likley never play. Stuff like Terminator and/or G.I. Joe etc..
10. Continue to have nice discussions here at EN World on RPG topics and get less caught up in who is right arguments. (under way!)

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

1. Publish more stuff on DriveThruRPG. Life got in the way last year and I only got two things published, but one is a copper seller and the other should be soon, so that's encouraging. I have plans for Shadowdark, Pirate Borg, Mothership and 5E content. (I might throw something on DMs Guild as well, but the lower cut and the giant slush pile of stuff to compete with there make me dubious. Maybe something small for Radiant Citadel, since I'm running it anyway.)
2. Run 5E more regularly. When everyone isn't able to make it to a planned Radiant Citadel adventure, I'll just bust out something from One-Shot Wonders (recently received as a gift, and it's fantastic) with the same characters. Radiant Citadel is already Fantasy Star Trek in many ways -- those can just be filler episodes.
3. Run more Pirate Borg, starting with the Sinking of Cthagn.
4. Run more Shadowdark, polling my players on whether they want to do Woodfall, more one-shot dungeons or, ideally, a periodic hexcrawl sandbox campaign.
5. Run a bunch of games I own but haven't run, including Deathmatch Island, Eat the Reich and the new edition of Kobolds Ate My Baby.
6. Play more solo RPGs. I'll start posting the next game here on Jan. 1.
7. Find more chances to be a player rather than a DM. That probably means signing up for more online conventions, like the Goodman Games ones.
8. Buy only the stuff I can realistically say I'll use. I don't have disposable income or shelf space for "collectibles," especially since we might be moving cross-country later this year.
9. Exception: Put aside some money and buy a bronze mini of my gnome illusionist from the long-running game I'm in that seems real life may have finally killed off. A character I've played on and off for 18 years deserves a lasting tribute.
10. Your ad goes here

 

[RichGreen]

1. Publish more stuff on DriveThruRPG. Life got in the way last year and I only got two things published, but one is a copper seller and the other should be soon, so that's encouraging. I have plans for Shadowdark, Pirate Borg, Mothership and 5E content. (I might throw something on DMs Guild as well, but the lower cut and the giant slush pile of stuff to compete with there make me dubious. Maybe something small for Radiant Citadel, since I'm running it anyway.)
2. Run 5E more regularly. When everyone isn't able to make it to a planned Radiant Citadel adventure, I'll just but out something from One-Shot Wonders (recently received as a gift, and it's fantastic) with the same characters. Radiant Citadel is already Fantasy Star Trek in many ways -- those can just be filler episodes.
3. Run more Pirate Borg, starting with the Sinking of Cthagn.
4. Run more Shadowdark, polling my players on whether they want to do Woodfall, more one-shot dungeons or, ideally, a periodic hexcrawl sandbox campaign.
5. Run a bunch of games I own but haven't run, including Deathmatch Island, Eat the Reich and the new edition of Kobolds Ate My Baby.
6. Play more solo RPGs. I'll start posting the next game here on Jan. 1.
7. Find more chances to be a player rather than a DM. That probably means signing up for more online conventions, like the Goodman Games ones.
8. Buy only the stuff I can realistically say I'll use. I don't have disposable income or shelf space for "collectibles," especially since we might be moving cross-country later this year.
9. Exception: Put aside some money and buy a bronze mini of my gnome illusionist from the long-running game I'm in that seems real life may have finally killed off. A character I've played on and off for 18 years deserves a lasting tribute.
10. Your ad goes here

8 is a noble aim! Looking forward to seeing what you come up with for Pirate Borg!

 

[Jd Smith1]

Live to game in 2026.