Happy New Year, everyone!
What are we playing and/or running this year? What games are we reading and/or planning? What releases are we looking forward, or what games we've been eyeing are we finally grabbing? Let me know your gaming plans for 2015.
I'm playing Numenera and (hopefully, if the GM picks it back up) Vampire: the Requiem.
I'm preparing to run Call of Cthulhu and reading, enthralled, the lavishly illustrated and cleverly crunch-tweaked French version of this classic game (L'Appel de Cthulhu 6éme édition).
And whatever else happens, I hope I get a shot at at least one of the games I've been meaning to run forever — ACKS, AS&SH, DCC, Runequest 6e, Eclipse Phase and most of the nWoD — and/or one of the games I've run, loved and want to revisit — WFRP 2e, Mongoose Traveller, Savage Worlds. Hell, this year I might finally man up and revisit Rifts.
On the purchase front, looking forward to nWoD 2e titles; eyeing D&D 5e, The Strange and Mythic Britain (for RQ6) with mild interest and by Jove, hoping Prime Directive for Mongoose Traveller finally comes out. Also, whatever comes out for RQ6 and OSR/TSR D&D, I'll look into it.
Happy new year as well,
As a GM :
The Laundry : the campaign goes on, I'll be using the latest book (The Rhesus Chart) as a backdrop for this year's game coupled with Unconventional Diplomacy.
D&D5 : the Rise of Tiamat as we have just finished Hoard of the Dragon Queen (well, I used maybe 20% of that book, but we had fun anyway).
As a player :
Yggdrasil : Ragnarok is coming.
Deadlands : a new campaign.
And as always, some one-shots here and there to try a few more games and see what sticks with the group.
The plan is to finish Tyranny of Dragons (just over halfway through Hoard of the Dragon Queen) and then we're moving on to East Texas University (Savage Worlds). Might throw in a short, mini campaign of Streets of Bedlam (also Savage Worlds) somewhere.
My son has said he really wants to play D&D, and has a character, so I may finally get that game off the ground.
I am going to continue my Sertorius campaign, planning on throwing in a bit of Feast of Goblyns when I get a chance. Going to be running another wuxia campaign and play testing some small systems. I hope to get a chance to play Numenera and to join a 5E group as a player (GMing too many things so want to experience the new edition as a player).
Running a game of Firefly, and thinking about a game of Mutant: Year Zero.
Hoping to eventually jet to join the local game of HeroQuest.
Writing more stuff for Lords of Gossamer & Shadow, completing Assault on the Mountains of Madness, and dusting off the long-delayed Asgard and Interplanetary projects. Also most likely working on a new diceless RPG using a variant of Wujcik's diceless rules, but with an all-new setting nothing like Amber or the Grand Stair.
There is another big dream-come-true project for a publisher I can't talk about, but I'll have to wait and see how that develops.
I expect to be DMing 5E throughout the year, completing the Tiamat AP before summer. After that, I'll probably either convert some of my old BECMI modules, or adapt Paizo's Iron Gods AP.
For a change up, I'll probably run a couple superhero one-shots, probably with ICONs, though I might give Marvel SAGA a shot just for fun.
As a player, I've been invited to participate in a Dark Heresy campaign, which will probably have a pretty sporadic schedule. I'm not up on all the background material for WH40k, so I'll probably just shoot anything that moves.
Kicking off the Great Pendragon Campaign starting January 9th! So that covers my gaming for the next 4 years in all probability.
Taking a little break between the different periods will hopefully allow me to mix in Classic Traveller, Flashing Blades and maybe even a Flight of the Intruder inspired game using Warbirds.
DnD 5e campaign in a homebrew setting, hopefully with more frequent sessions.
Playing in a D&D 5e hopefully for the year. Gm has a tendency to bail but am hoping he sticks with it this time. We always have fun in his games but he stresses too much about running and stops having fun.
Running a Amber PbP. Over initial its new and shiny part hoping we can keep up the momentum. Having fun with it.
Working on a conversion of Gamma world to 5e. Based mostly off Gamma world 4e system circa 1980 something. Not the most recent. Will plug away at that most the year.
If I end up having to run will do D&D 5e based in a sandbox at the beginning of winter after a Humanoid invasion has overrun the royal city and surrounding area. The characters will basically start outside the actual humanoid controlled area with the option to deal with that however they wish or run away. They will know/suspect the humanoids will be sweeping toward them come end of winter/spring.
I'm a player in a brief 5e campaign that will be wrapping up by the end of January or some time in February. We're going through the Hoard of the Dragon Queen adventure.
Once 5e wraps up, I'll be running a Cthulhu by Gaslight campaign that'll last 4 to 5 months. After that, I think a friend has plans to run Alternity: Dark*Matter using Gurps 4e. That'll probably take us to the end of 2015.
If I get another opportunity to GM for my Monday group, I'd like to run the Mythic edition of Barbarians of Lemuria. Or River of Heaven.
I've got a half dozen campaign ideas, sketched out in OneDrive folders. Maybe one of them will see the light of day. A RuneQuest 2e homebrew; a Dark Streets campaign converted to CoC6e, rather than using the Renaissance system; a fantasy 'stone-age' campaign, using RQ2e, with spirit magic and serpentmen civilizations.
I can't think of any Rpgs I really want to purchase. For me, it'll be more a case of fulfilled Rpg Kickstarters showing up at my doorstep being counted as 'purchases'.
Going to run a "James Bond in Eberron" 5e campaign set in the foreign quarter of Dar Jin. Once for two different groups if possible.
I also want to run a lot more Necromunda and Space Hulk one-shots and work on a naval warfare game of my own design.
Start by handing over the reigns of our BFRPG campaign over to one of the co-GM's ("Tides of Fortune," basically loosely following old school arcs from Hommlet to the Slavers). Will likely crank up a Supers! campaign locally, with some experimentation with power gain via competency dice.
Playing in the Hoard of the Dragon Queen/Rise of Taimat game that my wife is running.
And I'm starting a 5e game with a PF Adventure Path I am converting (Jade Regent), hopefully starting tomorrow. Not sure though because I have a 102 temperature and my insides feel like they want to be on my outsides today. Unless I get dramatically better I guess we'll start next week :/
Our group will keep on playing ToEE and running test sessions of 5e.
Once I get the hang of my new dad status, I'm getting my 5e game back up and running. The party has a boat, a big river, and a thirst for adventure!
Any purchases I do make will be for D&D first. I could be persuaded for other games if they sound good, and are relatively affordable on PDF.
I plan to finish running Pathfinder's Emerald Spire in oh so lovely Pathfinder.
I also plan on having enough mecha, monsters, ships, and NPCs stated up so I can run a BRP Mecha Macross campaign centered on a displaced carrier group trying to get home by the end of the year.
First, a happy new year to everyone!
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I'm keeping my plans rather modest, since things have a habit of turning out differently.
I hope I get to game again with Group A: First, to finally finish my Call of Cthulhu scenario The Extraterrestrial Eater. Then, hopefully, to finally run Coyote Trail.
I am fairly certain this group would really enjoy some space opera so if all of this goes well I am thinking of running a mini-campaign or long-ish scenario of HardNova 2 for them.
With group B the idea is to run an all-female cast through a scenario from Mansions of Madness, using Call of Cthulhu 7E once I receive the books from the Kickstarter.
As usual there's plenty of other games and ideas I'd like to have a go at but nothing else is set in stone.
Look at all the 5e. Wow.
Hoping to coax my AD&D players into giving (original) Traveller a shot as I just read a couple of Bertram Chandler and E.C. Tubb novels. Failing that, maybe I can convince them to play Ninjas & Superspies in a Green Hornet and Batman setting.
Well, I've still got that 3.0 campaign cruising along, so there's that.
I'm hoping to do a couple of campaigns with the kids this year: an Edge of the Empire campaign and a D&D 5.0 campaign. I do have to acknowledge that my oldest has a game group of her own now --she's the GM-- so the time factor may not all be there.
Quote from: Shipyard Locked;807474Look at all the 5e. Wow.
More surprising to me is all the Hoard of the Dragon Queen/Rise of Tiamat.
Going to run my shroompunk D&D 5e game as long as I can, hopefully to a satisfactory conclusion. Going to try to obtain more 5e books as they're released.
At some point, going to run another Fight! campaign, using my Rainbow Bridge setting, with underground fighting tournaments, the occult mafia, and the really ilegal aliens. Going to purchase hard copies, so I've got something to use around the table.
Going to try to run MHR some time. About given up on my Exiles campaign, but I'd like to run a "first generation" supers game.
Maybe take a break from running if someone else in my game group wants to run something-- we usually balance between me and one other guy for DM.
im planing to run a maid rpg campaign (stripping out all the randomisation in character creation of course nothing worse then randomly generated characters)
also i plan to let somebody else take over as dm every now and again so i can level up a nice wiz20/planeshifter10/war weaver5 (of course this is unlikely to happen unless i get myself into a war or the gm is very generous with bonus xp (i imagine yom would be but he would be a poor gm when it came to the math))
We'll be returning to our Mass Effect game, and I hope to run my historical ACKS game some more.
Quote from: Tommy Brownell;807525More surprising to me is all the Hoard of the Dragon Queen/Rise of Tiamat.
Is it really as bad as they say?
ive never heard anybody say anything bad about it other then it being to lethal
Things I want to return to include AD&D 2E and CoC. I want to try Numenera, Tenra Bansho Zero, Ryuutama, Traveller, Double Cross, AFMBE, Maid, Arrows of Indra, and some wargaming.
Likelihood of all that happening? Small. But worth a shot.
Plans for the next year:
- Play at least one game I have never played before
- Play with at least one person who has never played RPGs before
Quote from: Shipyard Locked;807569Is it really as bad as they say?
I love it.
My players are digging it.
Venture to Enworld and you can find thread upon thread about how it's the worst thing ever.
I posted one of the few outright positive reviews of it last year: http://mostunreadblogever.blogspot.com/2014/08/tommys-take-on-hoard-of-dragon-queen.html
Currently playing:
5e campaign, face to face, every 2-3 weeks depending on the vagaries of family/work schedules, college style (9-10 hour sessions, eat in), with players I've known for about 10 years who are mostly 3.x players.
5e campaign, roll20, weekly, (~3 hour sessions), with players I've known for about 25 years on average who are mostly 1e players.
Both of these campaigns look like they have legs and will go the distance.
Currently running:
A series of Dungeon World one-shots, which is about all the additional time investment the 4th quarter of 2014 would allow.
Hoping/Planning to run:
I'd really like to put together a Transhuman Space game, but I'm just not comfortable with GURPS. If I could transpose the setting to another system, then I would give it a go, but I just haven't been able to figure that out yet. Maybe the extra brain-cycles now available to me in Q1 will work it out.
Failing that (which seems likely), a 2300AD game is the runner up.
Finally, I want to get my swords and sworcery on, and Atlantis will likely be the game.
I'll be re-starting an older 1E campaign that was on hiatus while I was out of town.
I also plan on getting Roll20 1E up and running to finally take advantage of my kickstarter contribution a couple years ago.
Hoping to continue running Temple of Elemental Evil for my kids (using the old 2nd ed Campaign Scenario).
Will continue to run 5E for my kids and a friend and his kid from time to time.
Continue to run Stars without number on RPOL.
I would love to run 7th Edition Call of Cthulhu one day, but don't have players for it. But hopefully one day.....
I buy and read RPG's a lot. Haven't played one in many years. That is what I want to change this year. I'm trying to decide what game I want to try out on my kids. They are old enough for any system but I want to keep my GM work on the light side.
I'm thinking Swords and Wizardry or Castles and Crusades if I do fantasy.
Or, Supers! or BASH! if I do super hero.
Also considering Horror, which my kids would love but I think might be a harder arena for creativity for this very rusty old GM. Not sure what system I'd use for that.
I also love Traveller-style Sci Fi, probably my own favorite.
So.... I'm all over the place with my thoughts as you can see if you made it this far into my rambling. :)
Anyway, fun question so I thought I'd chime in.
/cheers
I'd love to play something but between living in a tiny town away from "my" FLGS, a full time job, school and a family I've precious little time. :/
More Traveller. I have a request to run a 0D&D game as well, and am considering adding it in February. I'll be going to Origins this year in Columbus. It just might be the last year Origins runs, since the contract goes through 2015. I haven't seen an announcement for Origins 2016 yet.
My RQ3 Griffin Island campaign is starting today after the Christmas holiday. I expect it to go on at least for the most part of the year, probably into 2016. This is my main campaign, as it is the most regular, being played weekly.
I am running a CoC Innsmouth campaign, and my goal for this year is to make it more regular, on a biweekly basis. Once we finish the Innsmouth campaign, we either start Spawn of Azathoth or we change games.
As soon as it is possible, I want to run Pendragon, the Boy King or the Great Pendragon campaign. I've wanted to do it for years.
I've GMed 3 sessions of MERP/Rolemaster (started just before Christmas) as a stopgap between D&D adventures, we've put it on hold now to play D&D but we will come back to it soon.
We're finishing off the big epic fight at the end of our 4e D&D adventure for our secondary campaign, once it's over (about 2 more sessions) we will build the characters under 5e and do the next leg of the campaign.
We have converted the characters from our primary D&D campaign over to 5e, we've done a few playtest sessions but we will start the campaign back up in earnest later on. Not sure if this will be before or after the other 5e game.
All of the above is the same group, we play once a week but we switch campaigns/GMs at the end of each adventure.
I'm also in a casual 5e game with an overlapping group, we play at weekends once every month or two.
So a lot of D&D and fantasy at the moment then.
Running Trav for the first time in a few years, for a campaign I'm guessing will last maybe four months.
I'm not sure - aside from playtesting - possibly playing a Pathfinder game with a new group I'm in; maybe running a Traveller game for my Sunday group (Prison Planet?); and I'm not sure what Ken has in store for us next. The stars seem to have aligned themselves so that all the groups I'm in have just finished a campaign at the same time...
Give my Dark Ages: Vampire game a boot up the backside.
Run some Advanced Fighting Fantasy and Warhammer Fantasy Role Play weekenders.
Decide whether or not I can abide D&D of any stripe.
Entered the new year with 2 D&D 5E games I'm running and a bi-weekly AD&D 2nd edition game as a player (in theory, still got to show up to it). Planning to do BRP Astounding Adventures and Call of Cthulhu modern campaigns next. Future plans include a BRP Blood Tide campaign, run all the modules for Legend in The Spider God's Bride, and possibly a Cthulhu Rising campaign. And lots more D&D 5E of course.
My 12 year old has declared that she is running a game. So that should be fun.
Quote from: Emperor Norton;809070My 12 year old has declared that she is running a game. So that should be fun.
My 12 year old daughter also wants to run DnD 5e.
I'm about to start playing in a monthly Anima: Beyond Fantasy campaign and also just started playing in a monthly Yggdrasil game.
Our weekly Conspiracy X: X-COM game is about to wrap up so I'll swap from playing that to running a weekly Shadows of Esteren game for the group.
As for games I'd like to run/play but probably won't get to: Numenera, Ryutamma, Nova Praxis, Iron Kingdoms and Mutant Year Zero are probably at the top of my list right now. We've got some spots for one-shots (like GenCon and our annual camping trip) so maybe I can slide one of those in then.
My Traveler game starts tonight!
Starting a new campaign using Runequest 6 (http://www.thedesignmechanism.com/products.php#!/RuneQuest/c/2826223/offset=0&sort=normal) and The Lost City of Barakus (http://froggodgames.org/lost-lands-lost-city-barakus).
Going to replace Friday night family pizza and movie with Friday night gaming for 2 hours. Assuming the family play test goes well, I'll run the same thing for my gaming group.
Currently playtesting the Necklace, running WWII paratroopers - not a playtest, just for my group. Will be playtesting Doctors Without Orbits playset for StarCluster 3, and Ecce Homicide - not sure yet if that will be a game or a systemless method - leaning towards the latter. Probably a couple other things as well...
-clash
Looking forward to continuing my new 6d6 rpg powered fantasy setting, The Gray Realms. We've got our 7th session tomorrow, in fact.
I'm hoping to get in some other stuff as well this year, including a 2nd campaign. Still deciding if I want it to be CoC / ToC, AS&SH, or quite possibly Tekumel (EPT or Bethorm).
I expect I'll run a bunch of other stuff too ... at next month's DunDraCon, I'm running sessions of Book of Cairn, Bare Bones Fantasy, DungeonTeller, and Fate.
I posted an interest check on a Stars Without Number: Factions Game... check it out it could be fun