2025 year in review
A traditional yearly summary post, reviewing the published material and plans for the future.
Contents
ItDR ↩
- New adventure conversion: Destiny of Kings
- Reinventing the Travel Rules for the upcoming v2.5.
ItDR v2.5
The development of the forthcoming version will continue into the new year, as some changes require additional playtesting. A brief list of major updates:
- Updated Features: Commander, Swashbuckler, Thaumaturge
- Updated Spells: Flaming Sphere, Touch of Idiocy
- Economy fixes: coinage, wages, living expenses, resources, structures
- Travel rules redesign
You can see the full list of changes in the devel branch, but keep in mind that everything is up to change before the release is complete.
Upcoming materials
- Starter module
- Player's Guide to the setting, including:
- a brief overview of the world, its major religions and cultures,
- over a dozen new Features and over two dozen new Backgrounds rooted in the setting,
- advanced rules on mounts and mounted combat.
Planescape ↩
The Planescape review series continues into the new year, completing The Infinite Staircase anthology. Next in the queue — the Dead Gods campaign.
Mystara ↩
The ongoing Mystara campaign continues into its third year. Emerging from it, one new module is already in the works to be published.
Some other Mystara-related materials were published this year:
- Classes:
- Miscellaneous:
- Roll20 BECMI tips and tricks
- The Black Eagle War
- The Forbidden Temple of Pflarr was published in Threshold #36
OD&D ↩
A playtest of the Original D&D + Chainmail in the Age of Conan setting was successfully completed. More 0e stuff to come in the future.
- The Age of Conan: Bossonian Marches
- Running The Age of Conan with OD&D and Chainmail
- Player's Notes: The Age of Conan
- Dave Arneson's Special Interest rules
LaTeX ↩
Didn't have much time for new LaTeX tutorials, but there is still some advanced stuff left that I plan to publish next year.
- LyX Editor overview
- LaTeX wargame package tutorial
Art ↩
- My highlights of this year's Inktober.
Happy New Year and stay tuned for more! 🥂
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