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 ?
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We’re on hiatus for about a month while the DM for our 5e game is in India. He’s also a player in my PTU (Pokemon Tabletop United) game. For PTU, we’re only a couple sessions in. My players are exploring a secret underground mushroom forest. In a few sessions, they should be ready to meet the fairy ruler of this hidden land, the legendary Pokemon Diancie, who will task them to clear a dungeon, and defeat a Mimikyu that is trying to steal her power. Afterward, Diancie will be introducing the main plot of the game, which is that players can become champions of the gods (the legendary Pokemon) by impressing them, and be granted powers to help them complete their quest to journey to the end of the world.
That’ll be the end of Act 1, or maybe technically the prologue, but it feels weird calling it that when it’s going to be like 10 sessions, and then they’ll emerge in the untamed wilderness to embark on their journey
That’s also when I’ll be able to have guest characters join. One of my players recently introduced to a friend of his that is a huge Pokemon nerd, and we really hit it off. I can’t have a fifth player, because 4 trainers with 6 Pokemon each is already a lot for a TTRPG, so he’s going to be a recurring guest every so often
Some of my plan
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Run a Mecha campaign, still not sure on the game, currently reading beam saber, which looks quite heavy for a “rule-light” game
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Play a heroic fantasy larp, Since covid I’ve been more in high immersion parlour game
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Find a seat at a World of Darkness table
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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.
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.
Going to finish off my Pathfinder sandbox campaign and get into space RPGs. Anyone got any recommendations?
get into space RPGs. Anyone got any recommendations?
I played a lot of Fading Suns at the start of the century, we’re closer from Dune/Babylon 5 than from Star wars or Star treck in term of concept. The game isn’t new (well there was a 4E released recently), and Is a game from the late 90’s whose authors worked on Werewolf the Apocalypse this simple sentence tells a lot about the game (Faction who hate each other, imminent doom and more) if it’s your stuff go for it.
I played a couple of one shots of Alien and Coriolis, worked fine but I don’t know enough the game to have a hard advise on it
and as I said, I plan a Mecha campaign, Lancer seems to combat/crunch heavy so I plan to try Beam saber soon
I never read why the suns are fading. But I found a potential hard-scidence explanation in Project Hail Mary (I haven’t finished it yet).
Unrelated question but for my culture
Set in the near future, it centers on junior high (middle) school-teacher
Is the Junior-High / Middle difference a regional split ? Or a administrative/legal jargon versus everyday’s dialect ? thing ?
Project Hail Mary? The hero is a former researcher and a junior/middle school teacher. It is used in the fiction as an excuse to make science understandable. I understand this level of science so Ianm biased but I think it is good enough.
@Ziggurat @phase @rpg “Junior high” is a school with US grades 7-9. “Middle school” is a school with US grades 6-8. School grade divisions have changed over the last 30 years in the US due to population changes mostly. Middle School is the more recent division of grades. Some schools are even going to an “international jr/sr high school” format of US grades 7-12 which is more akin to gymnasiums, “high schools”, in Austria and Germany.
- Finish the current high fantasy Campaign (GM)
- perhaps start a pirates / blades in the dark campaign (GM)
- Finish my current Ironsworn quest (Solo)
My main goal is to GM again! I haven’t done that in too long. Step one is to just pick a game already. I think I’ve narrowed it down to three options:
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Something OSR, probably OSE (or Dolmenwood, when I get it).
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Pathfinder 2e, especially with the new update coming out.
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Burning Wheel. It’s a White Whale of mine—my favorite game I’ve never played, despite owning for over a decade.
Too many games, not enough time!
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Lots on this year for games I play in. So plans are to continue: WFRP: The Enemy Within - we are two years in and finishing up Death on the Reik at the moment. Also playing Pirates of Drinax for Traveller, we have been playing for over a year. A different group is planning to play Deepnight Revelation once we finish up current campaign. Get as much Call of Cthulhu as much as I can. Currently playing Berlin: The Wicked City. Finish up colonial marines Alien campaign and beg the GM to run the new colonists campaign out.
I personally GM Delta Green, I plan to run God’s Teeth. I would also like to have a go at running Blade Runner, as I have played the two case files available and they are really good.
I would like to play more Twilight 2000 and Scum and Villainy.
I wish there was enough time.
We recently started playing Torn Eternity (something one of my players had wanted do for a long time), and we’ll stick with that for a bit. But, I am also itching to do some world building of my own and use either the new gold book edition of BRP or the recently released Dragonbane. Annnnnd the entire new Enemy Within is burning a hole on my bookshelf…
Chaosium will release The Lunar Way in March and the pull of high-quality Glorantha material will certainly be felt…
There simply aren’t enough weekends.
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.
