It's been a year!

When I started this blogging endeavor I was hoping I'd keep it up as much as possible, but knowing myself I was worried I'd stop after a while like it happens way too often with hobbies or things I get into...but here we are.

On January 5th 2025 I published my very first post, an introduction, and since then I published 52 posts, one per week, every Sunday at 16.00 CET (the one you're reading right now is number 53). I thought I'd take this chance to do a little recap of what happened during this year (TTRPG-wise) and what my plans are for 2026, both for this blog and for TTRPGs in general.

During this 2025 I did not manage, like I hoped, to find a new IRL group to play TTRPGs, and many things have happened (both good and...less good) preventing me from dedicating the time I'd have hoped to this hobby, be it playing, GMing or writing adventures or such.
With that said, 2025 is also the year I started playing solo TTRPGs, I published my very first small adventure (a zungeon for the Zungeon Jam 2025) and I finally started playing (and GMing) systems different from D&D 5e (for now primarily Pirate Borg).
Things have indeed started moving, with the momentum picking up in the final part of the year when I started organizing a public game in my local library (which will happen on January 24th 2026) and, on Christmas day, I finally convinced my wife to try a game that is not D&D 5e (something we all know is very difficult to do!), namely Pirate Borg, for a duet game, which turned out to be fun enough to turn an impromptu one-shot decided on that same evening into a campaign I've already run 3 sessions of because she wanted to continue her swashbuckling adventures.

So, what are the plans for the 2026 that just started?

Well, first of all I hope the upcoming library game will go well and be just the first of many, maybe even with the chance of creating a regular group and/or making them try different games (the intro game will have to be 5e, because...well, I had no choice) and I'm also in contact with another game café in hope of getting some games going there too. Fingers crossed!

In the realm of solo games, I'll try to continue my Pirate Borg campaign and the Apothecaria one I barely started months ago but then paused (of which I have not posted anything here...yet) and I plan on starting a Cy_Borg campaign which will also include elements from other Borg games, related to the project I described in this post about a month ago.

Related to that last project, I plan on continuing my character creation series of posts with a few Borg games ones, which will then tie into that project. I always have fun writing that series, especially with games that give you some kind of reason to adventure already in character creation (something most, if not all, games in the Borg family do very well).

Expect also to see more solo games reports, as I enjoy treating any game as a journaling game and I like posting those stories online (and I hope at least some of you enjoy reading them!).

I know I often get barely any views on my posts, and even less interactions here or on Bluesky and Threads, where I regularly post about this blog every Sunday, but I'm going to continue anyway, because I am doing it primarily for myself; if anyone reads and enjoys what I write and wants to interact with them, it's a welcome bonus.

This is all for this week, see you next Sunday for my next post!

May your dice never betray you,
Kirhon

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