Many of my highlights are already held on my blog below. I post infrequently, but I’m glad I setup to capture some moments and drop into a little more detail away from the frenetic pace and immediacy of social media.
My overview is Sweden. It’s all about Sweden, if it not be Symbaroum, it is Coriolis or Fate of the Remnants or Trudvang Chronicles. My other inspiration this year have been two lightweight game frameworks, Powered by the Apocalypse and The Black Hack. The Impulse Drive preview has also got my juices flowing and will run this at Revelation, a gaming convention that I have setup for 2017 to showcase the variety of PbtA games out there.
I seem to like to create gaming spaces for people to get together.
Heroic Fantasy, my Black Hack based game has opened up lost worlds of D&D that simply passed me by in my lengthy and continuing sojourn with d100 and other games. They have all re-emerged as PDFs on Drivethru and along with Frog God Games I have dipped in my toe. With Cameron getting the 5e Beginners Box, how long before we are all playing D&D? Not sure, I want to approach via a yet lighter game and so will explore with Heroic Fantasy. But how? I’d maybe get traction on Thursday nights, but might find expression with my young lad and his mates.
This was the ‘waiting for Modiphius 2d20 games’ year. I’ve lost interest in the Kickstarters and in the series of wildly over optimistic deadlines. I look forward to maybe getting something out of them during 2017. The system looks way too heavy and clunky for me, but I’m locked in to try and make it work and will use it in anger during the year and possibly right for my Thursday night group.
As 2016 slithers off I bubble with enthusiasm for Fantasy Flight Games Star Wars RPG, a trindie delight with amazing production quality. I’ll succumb for an early 2017 story.
I shall run some more games next year and play many. I’ll publish a couple too.
Good times.