Gaming in 2024

 

The Summary Chart

I've played my last game in 2024 so it's time to do the annual summary. I played 58 session in 2024, which  is an increase of 10 on last year. Face-to-face sessions increased from 11 to 23 this year, mainly as TravCon and LongCon came into the mix. Aside from those two conventions, it was the usual Revelation, North Star and Furnace that I attended (and helped run).

My most run game was Achtung! Cthulhu, with 21 sessions that I ran on Roll20, bringing me to a total of 25 in this campaign. We should conclude Shadows of Atlantis in January 2025 if all goes well. After that I'll step away from 2d20 for a while, as I've played it rather a lot recently. 

My most played game was Trail of Cthulhu, with another 13 sessions on Eternal Lies, which brings us to 38 sessions if my notes are right. We've been playing this since 2021 and it continues to delight me. As a player, this is my favourite gaming experience this year.

The Stormbringer (Tripod) game of Stealer of Souls and Black Sword was a high point of the year for me as I ran it at LongCon, the full campaign across two days! I won't say more as there are a couple of earlier posts on this the blog, except it was probably the most fun I had as a GM.

Traveller comes in next with a mix of scenarios and settings, all since October 2024. I've run three and played one and intended to run more in 2025. I have the Jagermeister Adventure and I think that would be a nice short campaign after Shadows of Atlantis.

The only other game that got more than one session was City of Mist, a perennial for me at Revelation (and 2025 won't change that either).

I finally (after twenty years plus) ran The Dying Earth at Furnace and enjoyed it a lot. Not sure if I will run it again, but that's a long term itch scratched. 

I also had a fantastic game of Cartel using the Berlin 1980s hack at Revelation. I was nominally running it, but it was all the players plotting and backstabbing each other's characters that made it for me. 

I also had a fun time at North Star running Across a Thousand Dead Worlds which mirrors Fred Pohl's excellent Gateway series perfectly. The players were mostly familiar with the source so it made it work really well!

All in all, a great year of gaming.

31 December 2024

	58	38	20	23
Game System	#	GM	Play	FTF
Achtung! Cthulhu (2d20)	21	21	0	0
Trail of Cthulhu (GS)	13	0	13	0
Stormbringer (Tripod)	5	5	0	5
Traveller/Cepheus	4	3	1	3
City of Mist (PbtA)	2	2	0	2
Candela Obscura (BitD)	1	0	1	1
Cartel (PbtA)	1	1	0	1
Impulse Drive (PbtA)	1	0	1	1
ATDW	1	1	0	1
Alien (YZE)	1	0	1	1
Fall of House Prosh	1	1	0	1
Coriolis - the Great Dark (YZE)	1	0	1	1
Star Trek Adventures (2d20)	1	1	0	1
Old Gods of Appalachia (Cypher)	1	0	1	1
The Zone	1	1	0	1
Revolt	1	1	0	1
Liminal	1	0	1	1
Dying Earth Revivification Folio	1	1	0	1