2013

[Matt James]

What are you looking forward to in 2013? Any specific games or conventions? Any products or events?

[Darth Jerod]

I had planned on going to Winter Fantasy and be a D&D Next judge but that kind of fell through because of work, now I can partake in some Pre-Release Magic events at the store I work at.

Gencon will be on my sites, the store owner where I work on again off again is trying to get some of us to go to Origins so I might go there as a Store rep. If I go it will be my first Origins.

I am looking forward to more D&D Next playtesting with my new group I just formed, running it in the land of Krynn and going through the Dragonlance adventures from long ago now on DL2 Dragons of Flame.

I am excited for the launch of the new Star Wars Edge of the Empire to finally get released, going to be running that for my store boss and some close friends from there since we are taking a breaks from Dungeon Crawl Classics.

I will be finally getting into Warmachine with a journeyman league starting this month, also have a Star Wars X-Wing league staring next week at the store.

Game I am interested in is the expansion for Lords of Waterdeep, Skullduggery of Skullport. I think that is it at the moment. I might be interested in the Pathfinder Card game coming out but with my issues with Paizo I might skip it. Oh the Star Wars LCG from FFG is pretty cool as well so I will be following that.

maybe I will take some notes and come up with my own card/board game who knows, had not planned much past December 21st lol.

[Scrivener of Doom]

Relaunching my 4E Neverwinter game via VTT... and, if that works well, following it up with several more campaigns by VTT.

[D'karr]

I'm excited about making it to Gencon again this year. Last year was way too busy and I had to miss it.

I want to see the new Shadowrun Edition. I'm looking forward to the new Neverwinter MMO. It looks cool, and even though I'm not an MMO fan I'll give that one a whirl.

I'm having a blast running my current campaign and I'm excited that we'll hit Paragon level soon, and I can take off the kid's gloves. My son is already starting to ask about Epic, so I know I have a lot of fun times ahead.

I'm really looking forward to a campaign my son wants to run. The fruit doesn't fall far from the tree, and I'm really enjoying that.

[Sanishiver]

About the only thing on my list is seeing how the Realms unfolds in parallel with 5E D&D.

I'm more interested in the former than the later, but the two are always so intertwined it's kind of hard to separate them (even if WotC creates a Realms independent of the rules).

Should be interesting.

[Darth Jerod]

It is now March and I have had to cut back on a few things.

Warmachine is taking a back seat because of trying to save for Gencon. Which also means X-Wing mini's will be on the backburner.

My Dragonlance campaign has morphed into me running a D&D Next conversion of Temple of Elemental Evil. We have had a lot of discussion at the store since we scrapped D&D Encounters over a year and a half ago and we will be picking that back up in April and running D&D Next. It means I get some hours at the store doing the thing I love which is workin at the store and running games.

I have pushed hard and gotten my long standing group to play D&D more (3.5) and we have played 3 times so far this year which is tied for last year so far. Things are looking for for more sessions.

The Birthday is coming up and that means Frank-a-Poluza will be a weekend of gaming, Video and Boardgames.

I have been running the Beginner Box for Star Wars Edge of the Empire. It is really fun and even though I am a little intimidated by the rules my boss at the store is in love with the game and promoting the system in our monthly news letter. So I guess I am doing a good job on that. Speaking of Star Wars I love the new Living Card Game from FFG it is really fun to play and the artwork on the cards is really cool.

So somethings have seemed to been sidetracked but I am on the road to having a good year with games. I want to get into playing some games on Google Hangouts both playing and running. We will see how it goes.

[Matt James]

My buddies recently got into Warmachine. I've played a few demo games but haven't learned it fully. I hope to find some time this year.

[Darth Jerod]

It looks like a lot of fun, and the rules seem great. I am not kidding though we (My store) went from like 2-4 players to having 18 players every Thursday! There is just way to much to do in a week to do everything and I think I am trying to do way to much.