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.