Year Over Year - Endies 2025
I feel funny writing a wrap up/looking forward post but I'm doing it.
First: thank you everyone for your support this year and for playing/reading my adventures. Here's how the year went and how it's looking moving forward in 2026.
In 2025
- I got very busy at my day job and it tanked my energy creatively for a while. I didn't really blog much and had a hard time writing and gming while I rebalanced everything.
- I attended PAX Unplugged and got to share space, meals, and game tables with folks I've been talking online with for years. It really renewed my spirit.
- I released two adventures: Orestruck, my next adventure in the Tannic Forest, and The Eternal Empress, an Appendix N adventure (it got 2nd place in the jury which was so neat).
- I wrapped up my Mythic Bastionland campaign and ran Cairn and Worlds Without Number for a bit. MyBa is an all timer for me. WWN I don't love but I found had interesting friction and neat ideas.
- I played: Cairn, Fistful of Crystals for my first megadungeon game with Gus L., Mothership, Break!!, Paranoia via Chris McDowall.
- I continued to finish what I start, and to write adventures that will be released in some form in the future. I didn't make a lot of visual art.
- I read a lot of nonfiction books on topics for my adventures.
- I read A Perfect Wife by Zedeck Siew with art by Scrap and Amanda Lee Franck and loved it. It's so good.
New Year
I'm continuing my home game and playing in another friend's home game, and an online Cairn game. I love playing games and I strongly prefer playing and good natured discussions about games to any other aspects of the 'scene'.
I'm going to GaryCon this year with my pals and will be running a game there. I'll be at PAX Unplugged again as well and will run a game there too. Other cons, I don't know. Between Two Cons and Arcane con are almost definitely both a no to my great sadness. Timing is hard. I can only con so much with my life.
I'll continue working on the next Tannic Forest adventure. It's going to be a location with multiple adventures potentially. I'm also going to begin work on a collection of all the Tannic Forest adventures.
I'm writing a mystery cult adventure. I had a chance to run it at PAX Unplugged this year. It's for Cairn.
I'm making a sandbox for my home game that I may publish later. I've been working on it in my time off.
I'm also working on other things its too early to talk about yet.
Be well and be kind.