So as the newest edition of the year is about to roll-out, what are your RPG plans ? Play more ? Less ? Try another game ? Finish a long campaign ?
My first game in 2024 is tomorrow, and we’re finally playing a oneshot of 13th Age. I wanted to check this game out for so long, and it finally happens. I won’t run a campaign (no time for another game with statblocks and maps), though.
Second plan is to finish our Odyssey of the Dragonlords campaign. We’re getting closer to the ‘canonical’ ending with 30 sessions behind, but I also wanted to run additional post-ending content, so I feel like we’re here for another half a year or so.
Third plan is to completely and utterly stop running campaigns on 5e, saving it only for the paid (and very expensive) games for people who’re willing to pay for the brand, basically. I’m tired of prepping it, and I’m tired of WotC’s shenanigans and bad book quality.
Fourth is to finish our Forged in the Dark game, working title Edge of the Blade. It’s a basic Pondsmith-like cyberpunk game without any shenanigans which is somehow still not present on the market, except for the new release of CBR+PNK which I’ve yet to check out (but the one-shot edition was brilliant). Every FitD cyberpunk I saw were either weird or unfinished, or, most often, both.
Fifth is making my paid GMing portfolio. Sixth is to run my paid GMing service to connect good hosts and new players, but that two is yet to come.
I think I’m going to leave my Friday group. I wrote a long post but it was too long and detailed. The tldr is one of the players kind of sucks (nice, but sucks), and one wants to play a game and style I don’t.
- run more Blades in the Dark
- switch my 5e group over to pf2e after our campaign finishes
- run an exploration based campaign (currently looking at Quest for the Frozen flame Pathfinder adventure path)
- formalize, trim down and focus the concept of my own RPG game system down to something properly testable for a whole session
Have you been listening to the Glass Cannon’s Blood of the Wild actual play of QftFF? It just finished book one and was good fun I thought!
It’s subscriber only but you could just sub for 1 month and the harvest all the legacy content. Their best stuff is blades and delta green but the majority of that is free to download anyway
I think they get the PF2e rules pretty wrong in places but it’s a good listen anyway
I haven’t played anything regularly in a few years. My board game group is finishing up an Imperial Assault campaign and there’s been talk of maybe doing RPGs next (though lord knows I have no shortage of board games that I have bought but not yet played). Would love to run Blades in the Dark, Mothership or maybe something OSR. I think all those could be good fits for our group.
Definitely running more games since there are still a ton of people that need to be welcomed to the hobby. I’d also like to start running character workshops. That’s where I feel I can make an impact.