2025 in Review

Here's a recap of the year for me in gaming. It has been a little bit quiet, which is okay. 

In 2024, my group and I struggled to find consistent play. We finished up a Star Wars campaign by the spring, and due to a variety of reasons didn't start anything regular in the fall. I did run some Savage Worlds for some of the guys, both Treasure Hunter Adventures and People, Plots and Places of the Wild West. For the most part we played virtually. 

That changed in 2024, when we regained a player and the group decided to start a Freeport campaign using the Pathfinder 1E rules. This gave me a chance to run the "The Ironjack Legacy" scenario from the big Pathfinder Freeport book released back in 2014. That took us all the way to summer break, and in the fall we started Plunder & Peril. Since we play every other week, that module has taken us until the end of 2025, but I have a couple of other scenarios in the queue for next year. 

Over the course of the year I released three one-sheet supplements for Treasure Hunter Adventures: "Ritual Magic," "Pandemonium" and "The Ossuary." This is all material that didn't find a home in other supplements; hopefully it's been useful for people. 

So far I've released a supplement and a short scenario for People, Plots & Places of the Wild West: "Military Fort" and "A Horse Without a Rider." I have one more ready that I plan on releasing before the end of the year, a longer scenario. 

My two biggest writing projects of the year were both for Treasure Hunter Adventures. First there was "Artifacts & Enigmas of the Knights Templar." After focusing on the American Revolution last year, this seemed like a natural follow-up. That disbanded order is so steeped in legends that it was easy to find material. I also added "O.S.S. Report on the Holy Alliance," exploring an organization that I found intriguing. 

Lastly, I released one little Spelljammer scenario for D&D 5E: "Kith and Kin." That had been fermenting in my brain for a while, and I finally finished it on a day when my son was home from school sick. I still haven't picked up the new D&D books from 2024, and don't have much of an impetus for doing so since I'm not playing it right now. Still, I hope one day to run another Spelljammer campaign using Graveyard of the Gods, and I think "Kith and Kin" would be the first scenario for doing that. 

-Nate