End of the year is coming, so let’s talk about our 2023 RPG year. Was their any great moment? Nice discovery? Projects finally achieved/started?
I took a small pause on DMing for my 2+ year on-going 5e game starting in December for personal reasons. They just hit tier 3 and didn’t have the correct time to prep. I was just wrapping up all of their on-going hooks so some of the background hooks needed to get moved to center stage. So lots of work with no time to work on it. I think I might get to next week when off work.
While I am off from DMing another player took up theDM mantle, so I got be a player on a 5e starwars / spelljammer campaign. We have done a few sessions so far and I really enjoy being a player. I do always keep in the back of head about what I would have differently if I was DMing but I am enjoying it. Also my complaints are small mostly related to asking if the players wanted to do something before doing the obvious next choice.
We did a short Star Wars FFG campaign where I was a player again which was pretty fun. Much easier to run with an online dice roller but obviously more fun in person. It was a pretty fun game and system but just had a few strange things happening. But the choices and character advancement was pretty cool
The DM of my current game is literally in the same boat as you, we’ve gone into tier 3 and he’s asked for a hiatus because wrapping up the complex web of all of our side adventures, plus our own lives making us all exhausted for games needed reworking.
In the meantime we’ve just played Alics is Missing which was a blast, I’m looking forward to our DM being ready to restart but only when he’s ready.
We’re still maintaining our weekly gaming session that we’ve been keeping to since Covid first started, it’s like 3 or 4 years now. Our group finished up one GM’s campaign, who then launched into another campaign a bit after that. I ran a one-shot of Mothership merged with the Nemesis boardgame and ended with everyone dying except one character, so that was a success. We played some Savage Worlds Rifts and Dungeon Crawl Classics.
I finished my long running 5e campaign.
I then ran the PF2e beginner box for an almost totally new group, and then ran the same group into the Abomination Vaults. They’re up to the third floor now.
I might have just found my forever group. I really look forward for our weekly sessions, we write character fiction during the week, I try to get more in character… It’s everything it should be. The system is a Traveler based homebrew and isn’t my preference but it doesn’t even matter much with this group and GM.
I played a couple one shots of Fate and Cortex which were fun, but the groups didn’t really click.
I only played 2 and one of them I need to give more attention to.
Baldur’s Gate 3, which took like 80% of my entire play time this year.
But I also started Wrath of the Righteous on PS5 but was too burned out by the same gameplay to really give it any time. When I get the itch again, I’m going full bore into it because it is damn good.
No tabletop… My group is scattered to the winds and I haven’t found a new one :(