Baldurs Gate 3 sidelined my whole backlog-- which is just fine by me, I’m not trying to schedule actual table meets, whether IRL or online, until my degree is done

I GMed the second year of our DnD 5e campaign which runs every other week. We went through the official modules Waterdeep Dragonheist and then on to Dungeon of the Mad Mage. We are currently at the final battle of the 4th level of the dungeon. The heroes will be level 8 after the battle. It’s just such a nice group and I am happy we manage to play for so long without any major breaks.

In my second group which is every other week alternating with the first one we had the GM drop out after a little over half a year mid campaign. I offered to run Pathfinder 2e for the first time and it went great. The party is level 5 now and close to the end of the small campaign I prepared. Maybe 2 or 3 more sessions to wrap up. I made up the campaign myself but set it in the world of Golarion. GMing Pathfinder was a blast and I highly prefer it over dnd now. It’ll be my go to system once the mad mage campaign ends which might well be another 2 years. After my Pathfinder campaign ends another player will GM Storm King’s Thunder which we already got characters for and began to play when I couldn’t make prep work in time since GMing 2 groups is a lot for my schedule.

Lastly I began offering beginner one shots in Pathfinder 2e in my flgs and it’s been absolutely awesome. People routinely buy PF books right there at the store after the session ends which is probably the biggest compliment. The beginner box is great for that.

I’m working on a proper dnd 5e beginner adventure similar to the Pathfinder box since the dnd sets aren’t really beginner friendly at all nor do they have proper matirials at the ready.

All in all I had a fantastic RPG year. I hope things can keep going like this in the future.

I might have just found my forever group. I really look forward for our weekly sessions, we write character fiction during the week, I try to get more in character… It’s everything it should be. The system is a Traveler based homebrew and isn’t my preference but it doesn’t even matter much with this group and GM.

I played a couple one shots of Fate and Cortex which were fun, but the groups didn’t really click.

I only played 2 and one of them I need to give more attention to.

Baldur’s Gate 3, which took like 80% of my entire play time this year.

But I also started Wrath of the Righteous on PS5 but was too burned out by the same gameplay to really give it any time. When I get the itch again, I’m going full bore into it because it is damn good.

No tabletop… My group is scattered to the winds and I haven’t found a new one :(

We’re still maintaining our weekly gaming session that we’ve been keeping to since Covid first started, it’s like 3 or 4 years now. Our group finished up one GM’s campaign, who then launched into another campaign a bit after that. I ran a one-shot of Mothership merged with the Nemesis boardgame and ended with everyone dying except one character, so that was a success. We played some Savage Worlds Rifts and Dungeon Crawl Classics.