I’m taking a look back over 2017 and my experiences playing and running games.

I’m taking a look back over 2017 and my experiences playing and running games.

I’m taking a look back over 2017 and my experiences playing and running games. I track all my games played on RPGGeek, so it was pretty easy to pull all my stats. I then broke it down a few different ways.

– As of November 15th, I’ve played in 202 RPG sessions, the vast majority of them over Hangouts, with face-to-face games happening with my family, at Origins, and GenCon.

– I’ve GMed 112 games, and played in 90 of them. I strive hard to play with different GMs, learn their styles, steal all their good bits for my own games as much as I can. My GM-to-play mix was surprising. I didn’t realize I was GMing only 55% of the time. Yay me!

– I played 38 games new to me, many were Kickstarters, but most of them were from Gauntlet City Limits games or the Carousel with Andrea G, Brice Coolen, and William Nabors. I did not count games that I played during recordings of +1 Forward for any of this, or my new games played would be a bit higher.

– I participated in the Ladder of Insanity again this year, and decided that it wasn’t insane enough so I challenged myself to only count PbtA games. I know, it’s “insane”! As a result of that, as well as my love of exploring PbtA games, I played in 138 sessions of PbtA games. Of those sessions, I was the MC for 85 of them. By the by, I will COMPLETE the Ladder of Insanity next Tuesday when Fraser Simons runs my 10 session of The Veil! I’m so excited! Once I complete it this year, I am retiring from that competition.

– I was able to play in a few games that I’d only ever GMed before this year – Legend of the Elements and Spirit of ’77. I’ve still only ever GMed Impulse Drive and 1%er. I’ve only ever played World Wide Wrestling and 7th Sea 2nd edition.

– I’ve had an average of 3-5 play-by-post games ongoing for the entire year, mixing the games and groups as games come to a conclusion and we start up new ones. It’s a wonderful experience and a vital part of my daily fun.

All in all, it was a wonderful year for gaming for me. I ran 2.1 games a week on average, and played in 1.7 games a week. That’s almost 4 games a week!

In 2018, I’m looking to cut down the quantity of games I’m playing and focus on the quality of them. I want to have some longer arcs and mini-campaigns, I want to develop one or two long-standing gaming groups and get back into that routine of social interaction with people as well as fellow players.

22 thoughts on “I’m taking a look back over 2017 and my experiences playing and running games.”

  13. It’s a clumsy hack, but I’m having a great time and it’s all fodder for better re-hacking with Lowell Francis So glad you are playing it with us!

  14. It’s a clumsy hack, but I’m having a great time and it’s all fodder for better re-hacking with Lowell Francis So glad you are playing it with us!

  17. Wowsers! Very impressive! Where’s the Burning Wheel sessions you’ve played for comic strip presents?… (maybe I missed them on the pie chart…) Any news on when the next episode will be? Really looking forward to hearing what your War Wizard gets up to next 🙂

  18. Wowsers! Very impressive! Where’s the Burning Wheel sessions you’ve played for comic strip presents?… (maybe I missed them on the pie chart…) Any news on when the next episode will be? Really looking forward to hearing what your War Wizard gets up to next 🙂

  19. Paul Drussel Thanks. I also didn’t count Comic Strip AP sessions as “gaming sessions” (or my count would be much higher). As for Burning Wheel, alas, Judd Karlman’s schedule at work changed and we’ve had to put Burning Greyhawk aside.

  20. Paul Drussel Thanks. I also didn’t count Comic Strip AP sessions as “gaming sessions” (or my count would be much higher). As for Burning Wheel, alas, Judd Karlman’s schedule at work changed and we’ve had to put Burning Greyhawk aside.

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