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My roleplaying stats for 2025:
* ran 33 games on Grenzland Discord (of those 2 Hidden Fortress (Star
Wars OSR) and 2 Pirates of Drinax (MgT2), the rest was part of my
ongoing Glimmermark (Labyrinth Lord) campaign)
* played in 9 games on Grenzland (Dolmenwood and the Montag in Zuerich
games which were largely not on Monday)
* attended 1 con (Cauldron Euro OSR Con, played 5 games)
* ran/played 19 games of Shadowrun 3rd edition
* posted 25 roleplaying-related blog posts
* published 1 fanzine article

in sum: 64 ttrpg sessions this year.

(very technically the Lodz Comic festival also might count as a ttrpg convention, but there were like two tables and a miniature painting
workshop and thanks to my kid being at his most grumpiest I didn't get
to enjoy anything of it.)

So, how was your year?
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On Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:40:24 +0100, Gottfried Neuner
<kyonshi@wilderland.ovh> wrote:

My roleplaying stats for 2025:
in sum: 64 ttrpg sessions this year.
So, how was your year?

I played 64 fewer sessions than you did. ;-/






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On 12/27/2025 4:36 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:40:24 +0100, Gottfried Neuner
<kyonshi@wilderland.ovh> wrote:

My roleplaying stats for 2025:
in sum: 64 ttrpg sessions this year.
So, how was your year?

I played 64 fewer sessions than you did. ;-/

hmmmm... that doesn't sound very active
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On 12/26/2025 3:40 PM, Gottfried Neuner wrote:

My roleplaying stats for 2025:
* ran 33 games on Grenzland Discord (of those 2 Hidden Fortress (Star
Wars OSR) and 2 Pirates of Drinax (MgT2), the rest was part of my
ongoing Glimmermark (Labyrinth Lord) campaign)
* played in 9 games on Grenzland (Dolmenwood and the Montag in Zuerich
games which were largely not on Monday)
* attended 1 con (Cauldron Euro OSR Con, played 5 games)
* ran/played 19 games of Shadowrun 3rd edition
* posted 25 roleplaying-related blog posts
* published 1 fanzine article

in sum: 64 ttrpg sessions this year.

(very technically the Lodz Comic festival also might count as a ttrpg convention, but there were like two tables and a miniature painting
workshop and thanks to my kid being at his most grumpiest I didn't get
to enjoy anything of it.)

So, how was your year?

I tried to run original star wars on rpol, didn't go so well and I
ghosted it. I'm not happy with myself on that, but it is what it is.

I played to 13th level as a tempest cleric in 5e in my friend's game on roll20, 2 hours a week. I don't remember how many sessions.

At least it's converted 1e/basic modules. The Lost City, When a Star
Falls, Beyond the Crystal Cave, Pharoah, The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth Expedition to the Barrier Peaks, and now Tomb of Horrors.

I really liked The Lost City. When a Star Falls was confusing. Beyond
the Crystal Cave and Pharoh was fun. Tsojcanth was a nasty killer
dungeon and confusing, not sure on that one. Barrier Peaks was my
favorite.

I knew a bit too much on Barrier Peaks, I thought I knew Tsojanth, but
didn't.

Tomb of Horrors I've had to recuse myself from and act like an NPC
because I know way too much about. I was not happy with that either as
I've run/played in it about a total of 3 times and never liked it.
Though some of it was wrong either misremembering or the more memorable
one time I played it was changed quite a bit (it's where I was killed by
100 bees for 1hp each on opening a chest, like really? Did the DM need
to make it deadlier, and the bees only attacked me?) I started playing
it a bit more suicidally and that was making it a bit more fun. My
character also got gender changed and alignment reversed so is now
lawful evil. 5e is making it much less deadly too.
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On 12/29/2025 4:46 PM, Justisaur wrote:

I played to 13th level as a tempest cleric in 5e in my friend's game on roll20, 2 hours a week.-a I don't remember how many sessions.

At least it's converted 1e/basic modules.-a The Lost City, When a Star Falls, Beyond the Crystal Cave, Pharoah, The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth

Hmm. I have the feeling that never is really that good a shift either. I
think 5e is fundamentally a different game than what these modules were written for.
I don't care for the actual playstyle 5e has going, but I think it works
the best if you don't try to force 1e stuff into that.

Of course in your case that would mean not playing any of that stuff at
all, so it's not like there's a choice there.
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On 12/29/2025 12:16 PM, Gottfried Neuner wrote:

On 12/29/2025 4:46 PM, Justisaur wrote:

I played to 13th level as a tempest cleric in 5e in my friend's game
on roll20, 2 hours a week.-a I don't remember how many sessions.

At least it's converted 1e/basic modules.-a The Lost City, When a Star
Falls, Beyond the Crystal Cave, Pharoah, The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth

Hmm. I have the feeling that never is really that good a shift either. I think 5e is fundamentally a different game than what these modules were written for.
I don't care for the actual playstyle 5e has going, but I think it works
the best if you don't try to force 1e stuff into that.

Of course in your case that would mean not playing any of that stuff at
all, so it's not like there's a choice there.

I play it more to virtually hang out with a couple friends and their
kids and kids friends. I don't like 5e, but it's what most people want
to play. When I had run it in it's early days I had pretty good results
with some old modules. Zenopus (but that's always good) and C3 Lost
Isle of Castanamir which was actually better than when I ran it in
1e/2e. B2 I ran in 5e was meh, but that's always been hit or miss.

Unfortunately I find most of the modules written for 5e not very good
(either playing or running) I did run the playtest Phandelver which was
pretty good, though the vampire (and how easy it was in the original not
yet 5e game) wasn't great. I also found the free level 1-5 into to
storm king's thunder very good (although extremely deadly in bits.)
Good enough I'd consider running that part in old school D&D.
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On Mon, 29 Dec 2025 17:09:52 -0800, Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com>
wrote:

Unfortunately I find most of the modules written for 5e not very good >(either playing or running) I did run the playtest Phandelver which was >pretty good, though the vampire (and how easy it was in the original not
yet 5e game) wasn't great. I also found the free level 1-5 into to
storm king's thunder very good (although extremely deadly in bits.)
Good enough I'd consider running that part in old school D&D.

I can't say I'm an expert on 5E adventures; I've read some, skimmed
others, and (AFAIK) played none of the official modules. But my
general impression was that it wasn't so much the adventures that were
bad as that they had an entirely different tone and style. Classic
AD&D (and to some degree, 3E) adventures were much more open; they
offered you the world and while there was a suggested path to get
through, it was really up to the players to find things out for
themselves. 4E and 5E adventures always felt much more directed and
linear, leading you from one encounter to the next, with little
opportunity to fuck about along the way.

Neither method is wrong. The modern way tends to offer better paced
and --from a player perspective-- superficially more satisfying
adventures. You face off the against the threat and -after some light
puzzling and lots of combat-- come out victorious. I think it's also
more palatable fare for gamers who grew up playing computer games.

But I prefer the old style, where fucking up was almost the EXPECTED
outcome... and when you did succeed, despite it all... now THAT was
satisfying! ;-)


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