Last year’s gaming stats confirmed a dominent display of D20 fantasy games of various hues had been played and GM’d. I suppose that a year with the numeric 2020 really should see the d20 predominent, though really I should be playing a lot of Modiphious 2d20 games if I was doing it properly. Pathfinder 2e, D&D5e and True20 all made strong showings amongst a smattering of others.
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| Games as of the close of next weekend |
Well, this year has got off to an even paced start and it certainly seems to be continuing the D20 trend with a big fantasy theme going on. All the games have at least some legs for the year.
- I’m playing in the 5e Curse of Strahd. I have no idea how long we have to go to resolve the story, but due to other people’s schedules we can only do fortnightly and I sense that this may play through for a good chunk of the year.
- The Pathfinder 2e is a continuation of my Shattered Star campaign, with a player swap about to take place. We have decided to play on and we will be moving into the Age of Ashes arc at about 7-8th level. Always hard to predict, but this may well play through for the rest of the year on a weekly cadance.
- True20 in Greyhawk is fulfilling my desire to run a game back in the gameworld that I started in but re-imagined using a different take to the 3.0 SRD. The West Marches style has foxed people and hasn’t generated the critical mass, but it has legs and will continue in a more ad-hoc way for a while yet I think.
- DMing D&D4e is a left field, unexpected additon to the game roster that came almost out of nowhere. I have a great group of players, some in-character text chat happening independently of the VTT sessions and a super version of the game; albeit a sacred cow slaying different take. Fortnightly for now, but I’d very much like to see this move to weekly if it creates enough energy and interest. Exciting. I can see me running a lot of 4e.
One facet of this D20 juggling is a real need to up my game in bterms of rules mastery. The context switching is slightly doing my head in. Interesting that the game wheer the rules seem to stick most accurately is the 4e. There is an incredible clarity to the game and a succinct and effective description of traps, poisons, NPCs and monsters. Really well done.
Most strangely I have also been looking at True20 for some SF action too, which would make the D20 dominance complete. I think Traveller is going to have a showing too, so will be interesting to see which way I go.
I could talk about a possible move to the Foundry VTT, but I’ll save that for another post.
It’s all good gaming!