One of my players is running Hyperborea 3e for me, and im working on releasing my first system so ill be playing it a bit more. Im also playing Swords and Wizardry and a Lamentations of the Flame Princess game based on political intrigue and shaping the next multiverse by manipulating symbols  as the current one is ending.

Quote from: 3catcircus on December 27, 2021, 09:41:50 AM
At this point, i'd be happy with play by email...

I'm finding Discord is REALLY good for remote play, both live and asynchronous.

Quote from: rytrasmi on December 27, 2021, 10:25:32 AM
I'm going to keep running my Aquelarre campaign

Do you have any notes on this one up anywhere? I saw your initial note back when you joined the site and there was a thread talking about character generation, but that's been about it.

It has been on my radar since playing Blasphemous and I just don't see a lot of discussion about it. Which I get, since it is such a very specific setting.

Quote from: Eric Diaz on December 27, 2021, 10:43:36 AM
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.

I'd recommend Odyssey of the Dragonlords for an epic 5e campaign, or 5e Primeval Thule and the published Thule adventures for an episodic Conan/Kull campaign. Both are vastly better than the WoTC campaign books IME. For sandboxing I recommend Kobold Press's numerous adventure compilations, 12 Peculiar Towers I thought was especially good, but I liked them all except Prepared! Eldritch Dungeons is good for a more dark fantasy tone.

So first thing is we have an ongoing deadlands game using savage worlds we need to finish. Im also starting up a mystara campaign using becmi.

Coming up when I can squeeze them in is Conan 2d20(wife just got me this), the Witcher pen and paper and Warhammer fantasy role play. Also I'd love to try and squeeze in either worlds without number or acks, or castles and crusades. One of those may replace becmi for mystara.

I got a full docket I'm hoping I can actually get through half of these at least but I think deadlands will conclude before mid year it might be possible.

Right now I'm in a group that is about halfway through a year-long, gothic horror style 2E AD&D campaign. Definitely planning on keeping on with that, plus any other games I feel like joining if the opportunity comes up.

Already had the Rona and it wasn't much more than a cold and a few days of flu symptoms for me, so I remain unafraid of that. Don't care if anyone at the table is vaxxed or not, and frankly, we treat the topic like politics- a no-no. We just gather and enjoy the game, and we don't have any snowflakes or SJWs in the group, so it's been a LOT of fun.

When my Youtube channel hits 1000 subs, I'm going to host the Great Underground Virtual Game Con.  I should break 1000 subs before the end of the year.  (Here's my channel if you want to subscribe and help!  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs3EPNjwUlyNokf3_IfAqfw )

I will continue my 12+ person Monday night 1e AD&D campaign.

I'll continue my 3-4 person livestreamed Tuesday night 1e AD&D game (on my Youtube channel)

I'll start my 1e Friday night Gamma World campaign livestream.

One-offs and gaming with friends here and again.

Quote from: Spinachcat on December 27, 2021, 02:54:02 AM
What actual play gaming do you have planned for 2022?

For 2022? Total Party Skills games.

My 19 year old son never played the older editions of Ad&D so we (my normal group) are going to start up an old school Ad&D 1st ed game soon.   It will be lots of death er FUN!

Hoping to find time to get an on-line Lejendary Adventure campaign going.

But for sure I'll continue playing my weekly BtB 1E DM-less story sandbox campaign, which prioritizes being the most fun I've had playing RPGs in decades over trying to fit neatly into any wonky RPG theory pigeonholes.

The group is still in regular contact quite a bit with each other, but we all live in different states at this point, so online with webcam it is, with a VTT. Around 10 players.

Game 1: Fantasy Westmarches. Expect it to last a few months, a friend and I are going to be DMs. Still debating on what system to use, but we're working on dungeons and the hub is a town that we have already placed adventures in.

Game 2: After that, Rifts Savage Worlds, westmarches some homebrew survival mechanics. Probably will start during the summer. We'll see how it goes, should be good, and same DM's working on that game.   

Quote from: Thornhammer on December 27, 2021, 11:13:56 AM

Quote from: rytrasmi on December 27, 2021, 10:25:32 AM
I'm going to keep running my Aquelarre campaign

Do you have any notes on this one up anywhere? I saw your initial note back when you joined the site and there was a thread talking about character generation, but that's been about it.

It has been on my radar since playing Blasphemous and I just don't see a lot of discussion about it. Which I get, since it is such a very specific setting.

Actually I've been running two campaigns, one online and one at my real table, with overlapping players. I don't have any notes posted anywhere. We do have a Discord though, but it's mostly for coordinating online sessions and running the video/voice during online play. There's a bit of discussion now and then, but it's a small community.

I've run most of the English language published materials that I found interesting as components of the campaigns. Now I'm "translating" Spanish stuff and adapting it to the campaigns. (I run it through Google translate and fix the weird grammar, just enough to get a sense of what the adventure is about.) The setting is so rich, I've found it takes a lot of running of published material for me to be comfortable with improvising or creating my own adventures. The learning curve is steep and I suspect that's why it's not being played as much as it could be. Perhaps they should have done a "junior" version that was heavily anglicized to get more people into it.

A lot of the published adventures (English and Spanish) are written as fairly linear stories with skill test gates along the way. I don't run them like that, and I'm not sure they are even intended to be run like that anyway. It may just be how they're presented for the GM. I adapt them to a more sandboxy/OSR style where skill tests can be bypassed or awarded bonuses/penalties depending on role play.

Happy to share anything else you'd like to know.

Likely will be continuing the 1e AD&D campaign i've been running for months now (hopefully with more players now that i've acquired the necessary chairs)

Apart from that... lessee... Will possibly get a session or two of Paranoia (1st or 2nd edition) in at some point over the year, if i can talk anyone into it i'd
gladly play some WarhammerFRP if i can talk anyone into trying it.  Back in 1987 i pretty much abandoned D&D for Warhammer and other games...

Before they moved to the RED list i'd picked up many DCC products so might be able to give that a try as well (and i'll find SOME use for that Lankhmar
boxed set regardless) ...

Runequest, M.E.R.P., Call of Cthulhu, Stormbringer and Rolemaster will continue to gather dust on bookshelf #6b (sadly).  Along with a vast collection of
Board Wargames from Avalon Hill, GMT, SPI and Clash of Arms that maybe i'll dust off to play solo (as always) as counter-and-hexagon wargaming is as
dead as Caesar on the Ides of March.

Quote from: Sanson on December 27, 2021, 05:03:58 PM
Likely will be continuing the 1e AD&D campaign i've been running for months now (hopefully with more players now that i've acquired the necessary chairs)

Apart from that... lessee... Will possibly get a session or two of Paranoia (1st or 2nd edition) in at some point over the year, if i can talk anyone into it i'd
gladly play some WarhammerFRP if i can talk anyone into trying it.  Back in 1987 i pretty much abandoned D&D for Warhammer and other games...

Before they moved to the RED list i'd picked up many DCC products so might be able to give that a try as well (and i'll find SOME use for that Lankhmar
boxed set regardless) ...

Runequest, M.E.R.P., Call of Cthulhu, Stormbringer and Rolemaster will continue to gather dust on bookshelf #6b (sadly).  Along with a vast collection of
Board Wargames from Avalon Hill, GMT, SPI and Clash of Arms that maybe i'll dust off to play solo (as always) as counter-and-hexagon wargaming is as
dead as Caesar on the Ides of March.

I'd love to do DCC Lankhmar too! I thought about a play by post game but I don't know where or if anyone even bothers with those any longer. I don't have much time to sit and run a game for four to six hours beyond my Tuesday and Friday in-person games.

Spinning up an open-table multi-DM episodic playthrough of 5e's Candlekeep Mysteries online for coworkers.
I've offered to run overflow games if we get more than six players per week, but in the unlikely case my family situation has enough slack to game two nights a week I'll be recruiting for a more continuous campaign.