Not buying.
Not reading.
Playing.
With other people.
At a table.

I'm going to be doing playtesting for my OD&D retro-whatever in Q1 and hopefully have it ready to rock on KS before 2023 since it's been in rewrite limbo for a decade.

Been thinking about running either Mork Borg or Mothership to see how they play at the table. Both have been on my radar. but haven't pulled the trigger.

So, what y'all got planned for 2020 too?

Quote from: Spinachcat on December 27, 2021, 02:54:02 AM
Not buying.
Not reading.
Playing.
With other people.
At a table.

I'm going to be doing playtesting for my OD&D retro-whatever in Q1 and hopefully have it ready to rock on KS before 2023 since it's been in rewrite limbo for a decade.

Been thinking about running either Mork Borg or Mothership to see how they play at the table. Both have been on my radar. but haven't pulled the trigger.

So, what y'all got planned for 2020 too?

My new job has me on a rotating 12 hour work schedule, so I decided to take advantage of it. Once every two weeks, I will be publicly running :

1) These Islands Imperium and Foreven Sector Frontier using MgT 1e (2+ groups)
2) Merchant Explorers using the MgT 2e as a test drive of the Explorer's Edition (short mini-campaign)
3) d6 Star Wars when the Merchant Explorers mini-campaign ends
4) Solitaire CT

EDIT: I should note that I have already started 1) and 4)

Hyperborea, Planescape (with 2E), Primeval Thule (with Savage Worlds), Mystara (with Castles & Crusades), Fading Suns Pax Alexius, and Shadowrun (with 3E).

No plans for TTRPGs. I have regular X-Wing Miniatures and Twilight Imperium games I'm playing.

I should try to get something RPG together this year.

I am in the middle of a 5e campaign that I want to finish up.  I would like to try to get my group to play an rpg of my own that I am working on set in the 17th Century.  I would also like to run a Dark Albion game. 

I need to play more wargames too.  Battletech and Blood & Plunder are my two fave's. 

Continuing to play test my own system.  I'll keep my regular game going with it, with the focus mainly on streamlining.  Meanwhile, I've got a few one shots planned with other groups to verify that the streamlining is making it easier to pick up for newbies. 

Up until now, the testing has been somewhat artificial.  It was an adventures, played straight, but we all knew the characters were going to be tweaked as we went and found flaws.  Was deliberately stressing the system in ways that sometimes wasn't much fun for the players.  Just now starting to test the game more in campaign-mode, the way it is designed to work.

Our in-person group hibernates during the winter months.  But come spring, I hope to do the following in person gaming:

Running Old School Essentials with some house rules I created.  I would love to run Stonehell or Barrowmaze, but our group only meets a few times a month, so I might choose to run a smaller published adventure instead.  Not sure which though.  Maybe one of the Necrotic Gnome published adventures.

I want to give The Black Hack a spin, to see how it plays.  I'll run it with a short one page dungeon, not sure which though.

If VTT games don't count, I have

Faerun Adventures 5e D&D set in Damara 1360 DR. Most of the games are online  but we get together monthly for an all day live session and the far travellers stay over.

Related to that but mostly different players, I'll be running two live January sessions of 5e Barrowmaze before my teaching term starts.

I bought Zombicide Chronicles at Xmas and am hoping to run it using the board game components, likely ca May.

My friend Kim will be contuing her occasional 5e homebrew Shambles game, she got a 3D printer for Xmas and is an excellent painter so looking forward to seeing the new stuff.

My friend Rich is looking to run some Runequest, and another friend Jelly may be running Vaesen.

Finally I'll be running some 4e D&D, Scepter Tower of Spellgard in Jan and maybe King of the Trollhaunt Warren's later if can get the players. And 5e Odyssey of the Dragonlords every fortnight.

Online, playing 4e 5e and BFRPG, running a lot of 5e (see sig) and hoping to run Achtung! Cthulu, but I may just use the setting in a Primeval Thule crossover as the Third Reich summon the Aryan Ubermensch of ancient Thule to fight WW2...

New Year's Day I'm playing in a Fate of the Norns one-off.  Someone in our group got it at GenCon a couple years ago and offered to run the session to see if we like it.

My weeknight group is moving on to phase 2 of our Mutants & Masterminds game.  We're moving though the comic ages with each age taking a few sessions to foil a plot.  As we move forward in time the characters will gain PL and the tone of the game will change to match the age we're in. 

After that finishes we're moving on to the new Twilight 2000 from Free League.

My Saturday group is going to start the Dungeon of the Mad Mage campaign once we're all back in town.  We've got 1/2 the group that has never played 5E and wanted to so that's what got offered up. 

Once we've had enough of that I'm going to run a Worlds Without Number game.  Something a little less structured than the 5E game.  My players don't really care for 100% sandbox games so I'm going to try and meet them 1/2 way on this one.  I'm using The Dark Tower as inspiration so they are trying to get to place X for reason Y, but how they do that is completely up to them.

Mostly I am play testing a horror game I have been working on. I have been doing that every Friday, and occasionally on Saturdays. And play testing wuxia stuff once or twice a month depending on schedules. But I am planning on running some short session of Those Dark Places. I am also trying to talk one of my friends into running Pendragon as well. I would like to run a full Ravenloft 2E campaign if I have time too. There will be other games too I am sure but that is going to be largely dependent on what other people feel like running.

Nothing planned for TTRPGing in 2022. The past 2 years of absolute-shit-Rpging has killed off my interest/passion in running anything, or playing in the campaign I've been involved in for the past 6 months. So, I'm going to take a lengthy break and see how I feel about Rpging as 2022 progresses.

Lots planned for wargaming, and miniature painting/modeling projects in 2022, though.

Pretty much nothing.

I haven't played routinely I'm quite some time. My normal group is Wed nights. Then my schedule changed to having work meetings Wed nights with my overseas team. Then other people's schedules changed.  Not much you can do when one player is a police officer and another is a train driver - both essential employees whose schedules have been brutalized due to a com o of covid sickouts and lots of unemployed people with nothing better to do but cause trouble.

At this point, i'd be happy with play by email...

I'm going to keep running my Aquelarre campaign and I'm planning to try Warlock! and Ruin Masters, both as GM. Our heavily homebrewed D&D campaign might pick up again and I'm a player in that one.

We'll be continuing our bi-weekly Keranak Kingdoms game.  We're back to using Castles & Crusades after brief stints using other systems (Low Fantasy Gaming and OSE), as we found it allows the right balance of options and complexity for our group.

Finish my current SotDL campaign (tales of Demon Lord), all the way to level 10 and the (possible) end of the world.

Then maybe some 5e campaign. I like the campaigns and the books look good, although the organization is terrible, they are a big railroady, and I'm a bit tired of the system. Probably playing my minimalist version of 5e if I can manage to finish it.