What are your TTRPG Goals for 2025?

[Voidmoji]

I haven’t run an RPG in a decade or so. I went from mostly running games to mostly playing. So this year I’m going to finally get back into running something as GM.

It is looking like I’ll be doubling down, too, and will likely be running two games. Two wholly separate groups, but same system and basic adventure outline.

 

[ART!]

In the far-flung future world of 2025, I want to:

- find or start a new ftf rpg group. I'll be moving (to NY state), and one or more members of my current group might be moving, too. For me it's about my wife being closer to the biggest art market in the world, but ofr others in my group it's about living in states that are less conservative than where we live now (Indiana). So, it might work out that we all continue to play virtually. That said, I need some sort of ftf gaming.

- get back to posting gaming stuff on my blog.

- expand my group's bespoke crit/fumble, encounter, and item card decks into a product others can buy. The plan is for a Kickstarter this year and some kind of presence at GenCon and/or elsewhere.

- finish my sword & sorcery Cortex hack.

That sounds like plenty.

 

[Umbran]

What games are you looking forward to pulling off the shelf?

There's a whole bunch to choose from - the main barrier is option paralysis.
Options include, but are not limited to: Deathmatch Island, Avatar Legends, Masks, Scum and Villainy, Everway, Tales of Xadia, Swords of the Serpentine, Inevitable, Fate of Cthulhu, Urban Shadows...

 

[thullgrim]

I also intend to stand up an "RPG a month" series - in which I host (and probably usually run) a one-shot sessions of a game from my shelves that doesn't normally get played. A sampler-series, if you will.

Neat idea.

 

[Senior_WotC_Janitor]

Shower a lot less. Blow up the toilet at my FLGS a whole lot more.

 

[Sacrosanct]

Play more

Release The Hoard, a 5e and OSE supplement book focusing on orcs and goblins as vile, malevolent clans embracing necromancy and mycelium-based horrors. About a dozen specific and fleshed out clans. New classes, spells, magic items, war machines, and pantheons to assist them in taking over the world. Or at the very least being worthy antagonists for would-be heroes.

Start work on Bugbears&Borderlands 2e

 

[cosmonauta]

My goal is to play more! I'm an editor of RPG books, so I'm always keeping an eye on what's new. But I need to play more and maybe produce something more personal. I intend to read more of the games and books on my shelf, and keep at least one campaign going throughout the year. Stop waiting around for missing players, and if a group has scheduling difficulties, organize a new table to replace them. My first run will be OSE. And Shadowdark as a player. I want to run some DCC one shots and even 5e at the local store in my city.

 

[MNblockhead]

Use my time and money more effectively to focus on things I'll use and will help run the game. A lot of this is cutting back, more than doing more. I think I'm done with using music in my online games, the reward to effort ratio isn't good, especially since a lot of the players find it distracting and turn it off. Also, will try to focus mainly on the next session and not spend as much time creating or planning stuff that will likely never come up in play.

I was also going to try to spend less time on online gaming forums, but I've already blown that New Year's resolution.

 

[Tibbs1891]

I am going to make a conscious effort to play more, and play regularly. I could probably count on my hands how many times I was at a table last year. I miss being in a weekly game.

 

[Desdichado]

I'm running a game and playing a game. Both are 5e, which I don't really like a ton. I'd really like to run my game that works my way. I don't even care for who, to some degree. My players and fellow players don't really have any experience with any other game, and can't imagine a world outside of a 5e-like paradigm. I'd like to jump in in a break with them and run my stuff as a one-shot or even mini-campaign, just to show them what else the hobby has to offer. But, I've got to have an opportunity; I don't want to sabotage the current game that as near as I can tell, everyone else enjoys well enough that they're not looking for something else.

Other than that, I've got lots of worldbuilding stuff that I like doing in the background all the time. I'd like to accelerate a bit the pace at which I'm doing that.