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My Hobby Year 2025

My roleplaying stats for 2025:

* ran 35 games on Grenzland (of those 2 Hidden Fortress (Star Wars OSR) and 3 Pirates of Drinax (MgT2), the rest was part of my Glimmermark campaign (Labyrinth Lord)

* played in 9 games on Grenzland (Dolmenwood and the Montag in Zürich games which were largely not on Monday)

* attended 1 convention (Cauldron OSR Euro Con, played 5 games)

* ran/played 19 games of Shadowrun 3rd edition. I didn’t actually keep track who was GMing and who was playing. We are alternating.

* posted 25 roleplaying-related blog posts (now 26)

* published 1 fanzine article in the Grenzland zine

All in all 65 games. 1.25 games per week.

That’s a fair amount.

(Very technically the Lodz Comic festival also might count as a ttrpg convention, but …

Had a super unique experience tonight with an themed one-shot.

We played in the absolute darkness. Everyone had small hand flashlights to look at our character sheets & around the game map - a space station & ship experiencing systems outages & an alien outbreak.

It replicated the feeling of our characters using flashlights to look around the ship. We even had a cool paper in a file folder to simulate an xray!

(Used the Never Stop Blowing Up system.)

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Second [actual] session of was a success. Mystery wrapped up - the starter adventure in the core book.

I have never run a capital-M "Mystery" before so I went in unsure of myself. Sometimes I felt like a train conductor or that clues were too obvious.

I gained some confidence, even slipping in my own clues to a wider lore thing.

Player feedback: adventure was fine for them, clues weren't as obvious as I thought, and they want more!

There's no blog update today, but there is a New Years Special coming later in the week. In the meantime, here's a repost of a article from June.
https://unobtainiumrivets.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-mecha-hack-revised-rules-for.html

just realized that the ad I have on my blog for my Tuesday DnD game didn't have a link to the chat room. now it does.
I wonder if it will actually get more people to join or not.
We will see.

Anyway: how about nice page with ads for open table games. Is this an actual good idea or am I just way too tired? Imagine a bunch of tiles, all of them advertising a different game. People just can go on the page, click at something that looks good, then be dropped to an appropriate page.