2025

03 Jan, 2025

2024

Around this time last year, I decided to prioritize gaming again. That decision started paying off immediately.

I played a shit-ton of games in 2024. More than I have in the past 10 years combined.

I played roughly around 30 sessions last year¹ . Most of which were open OD&D games in different Discord servers.

I’ve been gaming around 25 years now. And I can say that I learned more about gaming this year than any other year. I am a way better player² and referee than I was this time last year. The reason is because of actual play.

successes

• played 20+ solid sessions of OD&D.
• got hands-on experience with OD&D (1974) and Chainmail.
• proved some assumptions about the game, disproved other assumptions.
• my love for the hobby and game has been rekindled.

2025

I’m building on the momentum to make this year even better.

long games

I’m focusing on long-term play this year. In other words, in the long campaign:

We need long campaigns. We need to sit down with the same group of people on a regular basis over the course of years, telling the kind of stories which require concentration and thought and, above all, loyalty; stories which gain their own momentum through peaks and troughs, ebbs and flows, ups and downs and ins and outs; stories in which the events which happen matter because they have a context and a background and an unknown future waiting to be discovered. We don't need the inconsequential frippery of the one-shot; we need time.

Monsters & Manuals: We Need Long Campaigns

goals

• build up a strong community of local and online wargame/OD&D enthusiasts.
• set up an open table/West Marches campaign.
• stick with one campaign setting.
• widen the range of of my od&d play

make stuff

I’ve written a bunch of new stuff for OD&D: new monsters, rules, systems, frameworks, explanations of esoteric rules. I haven’t shared any of them for… reasons; I guess. I’m changing that this year.

goals

• build a regular post schedule for this blog.
• fine tune and playtest stuff and release it.

in summary

• 2024
  • i played a lot, so i learned a lot about games and gaming.
  • i’m more enthusiastic about this hobby of ours than i've been in the past.
• 2025
  • i’m focusing on long campaigns.
  • i’m making and sharing stuff.

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