Normally I’m not the type for New Year’s resolutions because I’ve experienced more than one time that I couldn’t keep them for what reasons ever (mostly because I got diverted by other goals). So, one week after New Year’s eve, I’m a bit surprised how this year those resolutions seem to pile up. In fact, I have to stop myself from inventing new ones just while writing this blog entry (quite unsuccessfully, to be honest, as this post started with an ‚d3‘ in the title :D).

In no particular order, those resolutions are:

1. losing some weight

2. writing one rpg-related review per week (at least 1 review of an Pathfinder 3pp product per month)

3. reading at least 1 book per week

4. writing at least one adventure with the ideas from John Fours Adventure Building Workshop

5. running an adventure as PbP (or over Roll20.net)

6. improving my guitar play

I probably should make this seven as I also want to work on my homebrew setting but as this may go hand-in-hand with the adventure writing process, I’ll subsume it under point 4.

At the moment I’m most confident about improving my guitar skill as I’m practicing nearly every day for at least half an hour. To read one book per week could get harder as it sounds, especially as some of the review items could be of the bigger sort and I don‘ t intend to cheat by counting them as read books. Reviewing one item per week shouldn’t be too hard though, as there are also shorter 3pp products waiting to be reviewed.

The other 3 resolutions I’m most concerned about. Generally I don’t find writing too hard. Nonetheless I keep finding excuses not to (and if it is writing blog posts about why I’m not writing an adventure, a short story or a novel instead), so this is definitely something which has to change, no matter how content (or discontent) I’ll be with the finished work.

And then there’s losing weight…

But just to keep book:

First finished review this Year: Rite Publishings 10 Kingdom Seeds: Hills (see next blog entry)

Currently reading: Dave Gross – Prince of Wolves

Written Words for my setting/adventure: 750

weight lost: None 😀