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How was your 2023 RPG season?
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I would call it year of the one shots, being a big busy IRL (started improv theatre class last year, pretty great but it's one more evening where I go to bed at midnight letting less room for RPGs) I didn't wanted to commit to a campaign (well, at least not any campaign) so I played/GMed a lot of one shots/micro campaign (the longest was 5 sessions) with may be 20 session over the year
The good surprises were the Borg series(played Ork Borg, bought Cy Borg) , it's actually rule light, efficient, and quite modern, not what I was expecting from an OSR, also played and GMed several 10 candles sessions.
Finally played some D&D 5e, it was like 10 years I hadn't played D&D, still not my cup of tea, but was a fun one shot with a GM doing D&D but different
Pulled back a couple of old games from my shelves just to play a One shot, so fun moment too
Bad year larp wise, not a zero larp year, but just one small game (parlour larp) 40 persons over one night. Many games on my radar got cancelled, feel like many of us were worried about covid restriction leading to cancellation or not actively planning their season
I played a decent amount of 1 on 1 Mork Borg and Death in Space this year. Great for quick one shots
Finally ran Delta Green for the first time but just as a one off quick game, playing through Last Things Last in about 2-3h, introducing a brand new player to RPGs in general. Went great.
I'm putting off reading the campaign book for DG Impossible Landscapes because I'm enjoying the actual play on the glass cannon too much and I don't want to spoil it for myself
Only managed a couple of sessions of 5e this year, I'm not that jazzed to run it so waiting for my players to be interested! It might never get picked up which I'm fine with.
I ran DG as well (PX Poker Night) for the first time this year. Everyone seemed to enjoy it. I'm currently waiting for the print copy of God's Teeth, which I plan to run.
Right on. I listened to a bit of the rppr play through of it and it sounded quite cool. I'm not a huge fan of their play style but they're obviously one of the biggest names out there for DG content. I just find the BRP engine and it's derivatives so fluid, and definitely prefer running non fantasy games. Hopefully will get to do a lot more in 24!
I ran a much of micro campaigns when we were starting to play online during COVID. Its really fun to have a campaign with a set endpoint since you can go hard on challenges and magic items. Can really see how the system works and can stay on focus or theme. I think they are underrated compared to the massive multi-year campaigns.