2018 was an RPG filled year.

I attended several conventions through the year: Marmalade Dog, Gary Con, Origins, and UCon. I ran games at all but Origins. I plan to continue running games at every convention I attend. Gamehole Con was the same weekend as UCon. Since I go to Gary Con over Marmalade Dog, I decided to stick with a Michigan convention in the Fall. I didn’t attend Grand Con this year, as I attended my 35th high school reunion that weekend.

October saw the epic conclusion of 4.5 years of Wednesday night AD&D game on Roll 20. I managed to join every session.

It was replaced by SWN after a couple week break, and after a few weeks, life got chaotic and I had to cancel plans for 3 of the last 4 weeks. I decided to take a break from Wed. night and my podcast until work slows down in mid-January or after January.

I started a podcast on Anchor and am on all but one of the minor platforms they syndicate to. I have over 4,200 podcast total listens over 68 episodes nearing an average of 63 listens each.

I launched Follow Me, And Die! Entertainment LLC in preparation for the Kickstarter for the card game I keep talking about.

I became a publisher on OBS. Here’s my publisher page [Affiliate Link] . With OBS merging RPGNow into DriveThruRPG, I’m glad I’ve tended to focus on links to DriveThruRPG. RPGNow links will be re-directed to DriveThruRPG.

As of now, I have five PDFs available, released in the final days of each of the last five months of the year, approaching 1,200 total downloads.

• Locks, Vaults, and Hiding Places [Affiliate Link]
• Library Generation Tables (On sale til the end of the year.) [Affiliate Link]
• Caravans & Trade Now a Copper Seller! [Affiliate Link]
• Businesses In Settlements [Affiliate Link]
• NPC Ideas [Affiliate Link]

I launched a Patreon. So far, with 3 steadfast patrons.

In October, Google announced it will shut down G+ in August, 2019. A few weeks ago, they moved up the date to April, 2019 and will start deprecating APIs in January.

Google takeout is rough. I jumped on the G+ Exporter as is does posts and communities. G+ Exporter can export into either JSON or WordPress backup format. I will post my thoughts on it once I have a chance to restore a backup. Time is running short, since G+ will have the plug pulled in April.

By the numbers

G+ passed 400 followers, and it dropped to the 398 after Google’s announcement of the G+ shut down. Until the shutdown announcement, I was on track to reach 500 by now….

YouTube – 234 subscribers, 64 videos.

Twitter – 720 followers

FB – 64 Likes and 65 Followers

Reddit – Karma of 72

Blog posts 121 published posts and 6 drafts.

Total blog posts 742 with this one.

Affiliate Sales OBS $42.54 All used to buy various books and PDFs, especially shipping for physical copies of Kickstarter rewards.

Total Sales of PDFs as a publisher $231.55, 70% of that comes to me.

I backed 20 Kickstarters in 2018, which is way too many. They all have cool things, but I don’t have time to get to all of them, let alone all the Kickstarters I backed before then.

Speaking of Kickstarter, my plan is for 2019 to be the launch of the Kickstarter for my card game. There are a few things still up in the air, so I can’t narrow it down more. My plan is to launch, fund, produce, and fulfill all within the same calendar year.

What’s Ahead in 2019?

There are many plans in place.

• Launch a Kickstarter.
• Continue Producing one PDF a month to my Patreon that is also released on DriveThruRPG.
  • If things come together, produce some larger PDFs. The timing of the Kickstarter will affect this.
• Resume my podcast once work slows down, either in Mid-January or after January.
• Attend conventions and run games.
• More regular blog posting.
  • Also more reading of blogs, whether from my blogroll or via an RSS reader.
• More videos on YouTube.
• Bid G+ farewell in April when Google finally pulls the plug.
• And most importantly of all run and play more games during the week.

I look forward to the changes and opportunities that lie ahead in 2019. I hope it is a great year of growth and opportunity fulfilled for all of you. May you play often, roll well, grow rich and powerful, and save or destroy the world as is your wont.