This is a tough one for me… I love doing 10x10s, although obviously 2020’s was a complete write-off (I played… maybe 5 or 6 of the 100 games I wanted to?). Not because I need to accomplish an arbitrary number of things to feel accomplished, but because it gave me guidance on figuring out which games I really want to play, and why.
That stated, if nobody else is interested in doing one for 2021 (and I would totally understand why!), I won’t make one this year.
Ever since I completed the installation of my “BoxThrone” ™, I’ve reduced the number of games I’ve purchased sharply because they just won’t fit. I refuse to buy more gaming shelves (either for minis, where I have 5 shelves, or for games, where I have a 7-unit BoxThrone), which means that for everything in, something else has to go out (sometimes multiples, due to space constraints). 2020 saw me pick up a lot of expansions and about 15 new games, but the shelves are now absolutely packed. There just isn’t any more room.
That stated, I have about… oh… let me actually count. 13 games I own but haven’t played (Android, 51st State, New Salem, Shadespire, Vindication, Lisboa, The Undercity, Crusaders Thy Will Be Done, Andrenaline, Anomaly, Defiance, Wildlands, and Stuffed Fables). I’m going to try to play each of those at least once over 2021.
I’m going to try and trade/sell/give away the games in my collection that I just don’t care for that much (Renegade, Euphoria, Bargain Quest, Dragon Castle, Santorini, Nemo’s War, War of the Indines, a few others).
I’m going to make one more push to get a group of RPG players started. My partner expressed an interest in the Star Trek Adventures system (Modiphius 2d20 system), so that may be the winner, but we’ll see.
Other than that, the same kind of goals as usual: a bunch of big, heavy space operas (Eclipse 2nd, TI4, Outer Rim, Space Empires, Star Trek Ascendancy, Dune) and lots of RPG-lites (Blackstone Fortress, Defiance, Journeys in Middle-Earth, Stuffed Fables, Undercity).
But all of that will hinge very heavily on school (I really struggle with online learning, and everything takes me 4-5 times longer as a result), writing (4 novels to complete and publish in 2021, and I’m going to resume looking for representation/publishers, which means torrents of rejections and trying to differentiate myself from the hordes of other authors), and government restrictions (I am extremely paranoid about making others sick, far beyond a rational level, but I haven’t visited anyone since March 2020, full stop).
Oh, and lots of painting. I want my Infinity to be completely painted (poorly, but that’s the level I paint at) as well as all of my RPG-lite games (I think I just need to finish Journeys, Stuffed Fables, and 2 expansions for Blackstone fortress).