The end and start of the year is usually a time for reflection and planning. In this post I wanted to try to put what I currently feel about RPGS into words. I go over where I am coming from, what I personally like, what I am lukewarm on and what I feel is bad for games.

Where I am Coming From

I was first exposed to RPGs in the form of 5e. Long ago when I was in highschool one of my friends ran me and some other friends through a combat using 5e. That night we created characters using an app on our phones and I think we only had one combat before having to leave since making characters took us a good long while. I was immediately interested but, I was never able to get into a group. The friend that helped us make characters did not want to GM and was a player in a full group. I did not know of any other folks that where into that so the idea of playing these games was put on the back burner for a long while.

New year new problems for our merry band! In this session, the group started by visiting Greengripe. Then they started their direct assault on the Cult of the Bloom. Hoping to stop them once and for all. They also made some new friends from old enemies.

Greengripe

The party began play at the ramshackle town of Greengripe. This goblin settlement had clearly seen better days. Half of the town had been burned down and the food stores of the town where clearly in the red.

This ep is going to be the last adventure using the colostle system, At least for now! Wanda will be adventuring on the surface or somewhere else. Still diving down into the debts of the colostle while also exploring the Roomlands.

In this ep, Wanda dives into a massive labyrinth to get the Goblet of Healing for Lisset. After getting this for her, Wanda will be free to return to the surface by asking the great Mounted Telenna for help.

2024 was a cool year and in this post I hope to go over it a little and also look forward to 2025. I go over the games that I played in 2024 and also look forward to games that I want to play in 2025.

Games of 2024

In short, I played a lot of Pathfinder 2e. I hope to keep playing it into 2025. I still have my Kingmaker campaign going and I think we will keep playing that into 2025. My group is actually moving along at a great pace and we might be able to get fairly close to finishing the whole module by the end of next year. If we do, that would be a massive accomplishment!

In a recent session with my kingmaker group, we all got a chance to use the Pf2e Research subsystem. I thought it would not be a good experience but was happily surprised with how enjoyable it was.

Me being me, I started to get ideas of how to use a variant of this sub system to explore a dungeon in a mapless fashion! The subsystem is very simple at its core and turning it into a mapless dungeon procedure is something I am sure others have done before me. However, here is how I would go about making a Pathfinder 2e Dungeon Exploration Subsystem.

In this short session the group makes a key discovery about the affliction spreading across the land and launch an investigation to find the source of the corruption.

A Feast Gone Wrong

After winning the competition, the Embeth Travelers held a feast to celebrate the group’s accomplishments.

Sadly the feast was interrupted by a most unwelcome occurrence. In the middle of the feast, one of the waiters started to feel unwell and made a hell of a scene. Yelling and screaming he ran out of the hall to the back of a stable.

The group talks to the leader of the Embeth Travelers, lovingly named, Jimmy! They compete in a hunting competition. Killing all manner of beast, including a Tyrannosaurus! They also find a suspicious creak that seems to have an unusually large amount of First World magics tainting it.

Dinner on the Roof

The group enjoys a lovely feast on the second floor of the Hunter’s Lodge. The Embeth Travelers serve their guests a full 3 course meal and the group is able to socialize with the 3 groups that they where going to be competing with.

Wanda almost succumbs to her infection but is saved by the Clan of Cups! She makes a new friend and even finds the way out of the dungeons but is dead set on helping her friend before she leaves.

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Taking a dip in the waters had relieved me of the itch, but just as the scholar mentioned the vines where invigorated by the water. I feel ill and weak. The vines seems to grow by the day and I have stopped bothering to remove them.

Wanda keeps exploring the Dungeons. Discovering an overflowing garden room and a way to alleviate the symptoms of her Rook Rot. She also runs into a wondering scholar. The stranger is kind and gives Wanda some key insights into the Dungeons.

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As I moved down the hall, I started hearing the sound of water. Moving to the source of this sound I entered a room with a lake and a waterfall within. The lake was still aside for the small ripples that reached the shore line from the waterfall. It seemed that the water was coming from a river in the Roomlands above. A massive crack in the ceiling allowed some light to also come down into the room.

Wanda starts her journey through the dungeons. Running into mysterious new Rooks and contracting a strange disease. She finds an impossibly large Rook, chained and long dead. Then she is forced to push forward as the way back is locked off to her.

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I have landed in a large dark chamber that seems to branch out into hallways. I would have never believed that the Colostle held such secretes hidden under its rooms if I had not fallen into them myself.