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Another year is almost upon us, so it's time for another resolution thread. Same deal as last year: Make your resolutions for 2017, and post them in this thread. Mid-January I'll hide this thread in the vault, and in December I'll bring it back so we can see how we did. Will you complete your resolutions? Will your life take you in a different, cooler direction? Let's find out! 
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Dec 26, 2016 04:21
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Trad Games stuff: 1) Write/prep for an hour every day. 2) Run my Silver Marches FR game for the entirety of 2017. Not Trad Games stuff: 3) Learn how to apply a full face of makeup. 4) Lose ten pounds. Arivia fucked around with this message at 07:16 on Jan 1, 2017 |
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Dec 26, 2016 04:55
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Get better at painting in a meaningful, skillful way rather than just experimenting with materials Complete a painted gundam Keep my workspace tidy, keep my office clear of hobby poo poo Play at least one game of Warpath: Firefight signalnoise fucked around with this message at 20:14 on Dec 28, 2016 |
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Dec 26, 2016 19:42
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See if I can do better than my ~50% from last year. Gaming 1. Keep my weekly Traveller game going until the end of June. My wife and I are expecting our first child in July, so I want to wrap up my campaign loose ends before then. 2. Paint up 2 battalions of `Mechs for Battletech: Alpha Strike. And not just in camo, either. This also means I need to acquire another company of `Mechs on the cheap (lance packs have been great for this). 3. Play or Run some Fate, dammit! I have a lot of Fate material but I've never gotten off my rear end to get a game run (or to find a game to play). No more! This is the year. Other 1. Oh, God; first baby is coming 2017 and I'm kinda freaking out. My goal is to keep it together. 2. Adding to that,  ! Time to find some a new job. Gotta finish up my certs and get into a better situation for my family. 3. Read 75 books. Two years in a row I've been stuck right at 50. Let's break that habit (I should be counting baby board books, right?)
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Dec 26, 2016 20:43
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Become the Moderator for hte Traditional Games and The Game Room subforums of the Something Awful Forums
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Dec 27, 2016 03:49
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Might as well take a chance on this. 1. Finish the campaign book I've been on and off working on for This Is Not A Test, including some actual pictures and layout outside of the text document it currently is. 2. Finish up painting my backlog of primed miniatures and run some demo games of the stuff I've been tinkering with. 3. Sculpt and cast at least three new models. This does involve learning how to cast models, but I figure that my renewed interest in gaming should help keep me motivated. As far as life goals, hoping to leave my current job and find something closer to what I actually like to do in life.
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Dec 27, 2016 04:31
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1. Keep tracking my purchases and painting 2. Paint more than I buy 3. Make more effort to track my diet and lose weight 4. Play some board games with goons via TGSS 5. Have a sort through my piles of unused stuff and sell/donate anything I'm unlikely to ever use
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Dec 27, 2016 12:58
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Zark the Damned posted:2. Paint more than I buy Pierzak fucked around with this message at 16:39 on Dec 28, 2016 |
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Dec 28, 2016 16:29
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Alright, following my dismal performance last year, let's try this again: 1. Launch the Pigsmoke kickstarter and deliver the results. 2. Finish brevity quest and enter it into the 2017 Spring Thing. 3. Do the Book Barn reading challenge. 4. Complete one other pet project.
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Dec 29, 2016 11:13
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Dec 30, 2016 00:03
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Dec 30, 2016 01:17
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Alright, I messed up real bad this year, I don't think I even made resolutions last year with how messed up I was. Those aren't elfgames problems though, so whatever. This upcoming year I plan to
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Dec 30, 2016 01:45
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Same as last year, since lat year worked. Do more cool things. Be nicer to myself.
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Dec 30, 2016 10:47
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Tradgames 1. Clear my current freelancing slate 2. Write for a minimum of three books. 3. Self-publish at least two new things. 4. Not gently caress up running Godbound Non-tradgames 5. Stop being single before the 1-year mark 6. Lose some goddamn weight.
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Dec 30, 2016 14:22
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1. Keep running my CYOA until it either reaches an actual ending, or for the entire year - whichever happens first. 2. Finish off the Dungeon World campaign I wrote most of the basic playbooks for. 3. Play Fiasco at least once. Non-tradgames: 4. Lose some weight, build some muscles 5. Get out and meet some new people 6. Eat healthier and drink less.
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Dec 30, 2016 16:46
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Well, I didn't entirely fail at last year. Let's keep this poo poo going: 1.) Keep on slogging away at Endless Adventures. It almost certainly won't be done in 2017, but any progress is a good thing, and slow and steady wins the race. 2.) Get at least one thing to market. 3.) Continuing to keep the local game going. I haven't yet gotten them off of D&D, but I am getting them to world build. 4.) Not succumb to sadness and disease.
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Dec 31, 2016 10:52
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I am going to stop bugging my friends and actually start running the Mage the Awakening game I've been trying to get off the ground for the past couple years. I have two solid commitments, and drat it, that is enough if necessary.
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Dec 31, 2016 17:24
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Overall goal of 2017: Get more miniatures out of the house than I buy. That means either selling/giving away stuff I won't use, or painting them and sending them off to army storage at the club. Projects: 1) Paint up the napoleonic cavalry that I ordered from Warlord. 2) Paint ALL 28mm vehicles that resided in my house at the start of the year. That's about a dozen German and British North Africa tanks and cars. 3) Finish my new website. 4) Base my 28mm samurai army for FoG. 5) Paint a contingent of 15mm Poles for 30YW. 6) Finish the viking skirmish rules I started working on with some friends. 7) Paint at least some 6mm napoleonics. non-trad games: 1) Don't fall into the trap of eating tons of fast food and candy now that my work requires a lot more travels and overnight stays in hotels. 2) Don't fall into the trap of not having the time to go to the gym because of reason mentioned above.
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Jan 1, 2017 11:57
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Here's mine: 1. Release more game books 2. Launch and deliver a different project I'm working on 3. Donate/get rid of some old books, clothes, and other things I've let pile up 4. Replace the busted furniture I've been putting up with because it "mostly still works" 5. Try more cooking recipes 6. Practice drawing more
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Jan 1, 2017 16:02
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My gaming resolutions:
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Jan 1, 2017 19:12
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TG Stuff: Play (and maybe write) more RPGs. I got struck by inspiration to rebuild Sailors & Sea Serpents (my first SA TG contest entry, from years ago) as a Dungeon World campaign, so I'm going to try to run that this year. Gotta get some playbooks together first, though. Finish the board games I'm working on: Pigment and Seek and Go Hyde are basically done barring art and finding publishers interested, so who knows what'll happen. Get Tattoo! The Game of Ink back on Kickstarter. We didn't succeed when we tried last August, but with some changes to the model and getting shipping worked out better, I think we can do it. Non-TG: Lose 10-15 lbs by June 21st (my birthday). Keep it off by the end of December.
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Jan 1, 2017 20:35
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1. Publish at least two new books. 2. Make a video game. 3. Finish writing my elfgames. 4. Eat more beef. 5. Fight fascism.
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Jan 1, 2017 20:49
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1.) Stick with an army for whatever game(s) I'm playing. 2.) Paint said army. 3.) Write backstories for units in said army. 4.) Stop buying models I will never actually play. Non-TG stuff 5.) Find a more fulfilling job.
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Jan 1, 2017 21:38
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1. Make a video game. 2. run another megagame 3. Eat more fish 4. Fight fascism
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Jan 2, 2017 00:28
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Trad Games resolutions -Get a 4th ed Zeitgeist game off the ground. -Get better at leatherworking for LARP -Start a 2nd ed MtA game when my current group finishes our chronicle on the 22nd. Non Trad game resolutions Complete my degree Actually go to the gym that I have a membership for. Start making a video game.
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Jan 2, 2017 02:14
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Games related stuff for this year
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Jan 2, 2017 03:18
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I'm setting far more modest goals for 2017: 1. Run a live game, probably on a monthly basis 2. Run a game using Palladium's systems 3. Plan for and buy a car
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Jan 2, 2017 04:26
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gradenko_2000 posted:2. Run a game using Palladium's systems what no
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Jan 2, 2017 08:12
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1. Beat my little brother in a game of Commander using a deck he didn't make for me. 2. Go to a place to play Magic with someone other than my little brother 3. Find a game that my dumb rear end friends will want to come over and play.
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Jan 2, 2017 08:27
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Trad games 1) Not turn into a sad sack and continue posting. It doesn't have to be perfect, just decent. 2) Prepare and run at least 2 games in real life. 3) Finish my write up of Glorantha in F&F. None Trad games: 1) Continue with the gym 2) Stop eating Chocolate for 3 months. 3) Get a better job.
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Jan 2, 2017 19:37
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Trad Games: 1) Post More (for reals this time). 2) Keep collection size constant or decreasing (if you buy a new board game, get rid of an old one, same for RPG stuff!). 3) Finish at least 1 Tradgames project Life: 1) Run Regularly, including at least 2 5Ks (ideally also 1 10K, but that's probably too much) 2) Purge stuff you don't even wear/use anymore 3) Clean the house at least 1/week, and do a full clean 1/month.
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Jan 2, 2017 20:31
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trad games: +learn more games that aren't powered by the apocalypse +start a group on my own and keep it going outside trad games: +find out if I actually have add by talking to a doctor +commit to getting strong +find a job I don't hate
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Jan 3, 2017 01:40
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Keeping it short and sweet: TG Related: - Finish up "Panty Raid" for a Spring Break release on DriveThruCards. - Stream or record a series of me playing through my game collection (as an excuse to actually play them all). - Finish the meta-Exalted 3e campaign I've been running with my 2e group. - Start up the college radio show I used to have as a podcast. Non-TG Related - Plan and Start a series called "How to Critic" to teach how to do analytical criticism. - Plan and create a podcast series about Stephen King's "The Dark Tower" series. - Get married. And send you an invite if you plan on getting us an awesome gift!
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Jan 3, 2017 05:32
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Only one: Play the remaining couple of games I own that I have not played.
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Jan 3, 2017 14:22
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Run Through The Ages 3rd. Run Clash of Cultures again, successfully. Run Android  e: Successfully herd enough cats to actually get a weekly board game group going because that's the biggest thing I miss from moving country. Stelas fucked around with this message at 23:51 on Jan 3, 2017 |
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Jan 3, 2017 23:48
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Well hell, I never post around here but the end-of-year reveal should make this interesting. -Hold steady on my gaming commitments- I play RPGs four nights a week and it's been getting in the way of doing just about anything else I want to do. -Figure out some way to gracefully refuse playing any more RPGs at all - even the biweekly game that ran last year. I just don't have the energy. -Run my Wednesday night Strike! campaign through to completion, whenever that is. -Integrate an actual plot into the Star Wars World game I occasionally run for the Saturday group instead of just running whatever one-shot I come up with over the week. -Post in the cat-piss thread. I've enjoyed the thread enough I should give back. -Actually make and paint some terrain for my GM's Christmas present next year. Hello, 2018 me! I really hope you've done at least some of these! bbcisdabomb fucked around with this message at 00:48 on Jan 4, 2017 |
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Jan 4, 2017 00:44
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Finish building my TY soviets list. Learn to make good basing for said army. Figure out how to store/display said army Oh and build an 8x4 table, with terrain
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Jan 6, 2017 01:13
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Uni has priority as always but still; Run some Warhammer Fantasy RPG. Run/Play some Fragged Empire. Stop playing D&D 5e.
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Jan 10, 2017 03:23
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I didn't actually do tooooo badly with my resolutions from last year, that's something! This year: 1. Keep making progress on my various tiny mans armies. Paint a unit of boring infantry between each fun big model. 2. Build a scale model. 3. End the year with a smaller backlog than I started. 4. Save more money.
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Jan 10, 2017 06:52
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Alright folks, last call. This thread is vanishing tomorrow!
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Jan 18, 2017 11:02
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