It’s one thing to set resolutions, and quite another to hold oneself to them. I intend to review my progress monthly toward each of the resolutions. Welcome, then, to our roundup for November 2024. Let’s start with a reminder of the resolutions and where we got to in October:
Resolutions Recap
Painting
- Paint at least 4 Warhammer armies of approx 2000 points (Oct status: 1/4)
- Paint an Underworlds Warband (Oct status: Complete! 1/1)
- Paint two Malifaux crews (Oct status: 0/2)
- Paint 2 starting forces each for 2 different games (Oct status: 3/4)
- Take part in at least 4 club painting contests (Oct status: Complete! 5/4)
- Paint 366 miniatures (Oct status: 288/366)
- Paint more than I purchase or print (Oct status: on track!)
Gaming
- Play at least 40 different games this year (Oct status: Complete! 40/40)
- Play 6 games that I already owned but had not yet played. (Oct status: Complete ! 6/6)
- Play at least 3 non-D&D RPGs (Oct status: Complete! 3/3)
Writing
- Publish a blog post per day (Oct status: on track!)
- Publish 6 items on DriveThruRPG (Oct status: 0/6)
- Write 18 reviews (including Game of the Month reviews) (Oct status: Complete! 48/18)
So, how did November go?
Painting
Nada. Nothing. Zip.
The pain that was previously in other joints has spread to my hands. Couple this with being pretty damn busy when I didn’t have pain, and I just got nothing done.
Our totals for the month are, of course:
Bought: 0 minis
Printed: 0 minis
Painted: 0 minis
This means that my totals for the year so far are:
Purchased: 121 minis
Printed: 116 minis
Painted: 288 minis
I’m feeling a bit despondent, truth be told. It’s not about the resolutions, which are a bit of a lost cause now, but more about the implications going forward.
Gaming
November has been more successful in terms of gaming, at least. I got my second game of Arcs in and even managed to score a victory over my two opponents. It was a tight thing, though!
I think I’m coming around a bit on this game. It didn’t really stick the landing for me during that first game, but this time it made a lot more sense to me. I enjoyed it from the start, and I was a lot more aggressive than I normally would be in this sort of game. I’m naturally a bit of a turtler, but I made some poor decisions early on and the only remedy was to start raiding opponents.
I also tried River Valley Glassworks the other week, and I really enjoyed that. it was absolutely fantastic.
It’s such a simple game, and a little bit frustrating as well, but I had such a blast with it. A couple folk were asking me for some ideas for Christmas and I think I might mention this little game!
Here’s the list of games that I had played already this year, before the start of November:
- Century: Golem Edition
- Architects of the West Kingdom
- Sushi Go!
- Warhammer Underworlds
- Age of Sigmar: Soulbound
- Traveller
- Dungeons & Dragons
- Santorini
- King of Tokyo
- Ticket to Ride
- Twilight Struggle
- Warhammer: Age of Sigmar
- Ark Nova
- Arcane Academy
- Robot Quest Arena
- UNO
- Root
- Apiary
- Dixit
- In the Hall of the Mountain King
- Quadropolis
- 1960: The Making of the President
- Everdell
- Age of Fantasy
- Call of Cthulhu
- Raiders of the North Sea
- Scout
- Warhammer 40,000
- Kluster
- Rummy
- Lorcana
- Flotsam Fight
- Twilight Struggle Red Sea: Conflict in the Horn of Africa
- Magic: the Gathering (Commander)
- Eclipse
- Arcs
- Nucleum
- Villainous
- Isle of Skye
- Explorers of Navoria
I added four new games to the list in November:
- Doomlings
- Kingdom Builder
- Love Letter
- River Valley Glassworks
I also got in a fair few games of Lorcana and Commander, and I continue to really love both of these games. I’m putting together a fun deck for wife for Christmas. It’s her who got me into Lorcana and although I’ve built an Evade deck, she doesn’t have anything custom yet. I’ve really enjoyed Commander, especially with my frogs. I like using something I built. I’ve got two more decks in mind…
I’m so lucky to have a fantastic, and growing, group with which to play this game!
My game of the month was Love Letter.
Writing
I’ve managed to maintain my goal of posting a blog post per day. I’m happy to be doing well on that front. Reviews were a bit thinner on the ground this month, what with work being hectic. Here are some highlights:
- Some thoughts on changes to combat in MTG
- Considering MTG’s jumpstart format
- A review of the movie, An American Pickle
- Upgrading my Miracle Deck
- Faction Files: Anne Rice’s Talamasca
- First Impressions of Nucleum
- First impressions of Explorers of Navoria
- My current favourite commanders
- November’s game of the month
I’d like to push the reviews a bit more again in the new year, but for now, I’m keeping a good momentum. I’m really enjoying
No progress on the DTRPG stuff. That’s not going to happen this year.
November Summary
Painting
- Paint at least 4 Warhammer armies of approx 2000 points (Nov status: 1/4)
- Paint an Underworlds Warband (Nov status: Complete! 1/1)
- Paint two Malifaux crews (Nov status: 0/2)
- Paint 2 starting forces each for 2 different games (Nov status: 3/4)
- Take part in at least 4 club painting contests (Nov status: Complete! 5/4)
- Paint 366 miniatures (Nov status: 288/366)
- Paint more than I purchase or print (Nov status: on track!)
Gaming
- Play at least 40 different games this year (Nov status: Complete! 44/40)
- Play 6 games that I already owned but had not yet played. (Nov status: Complete ! 6/6)
- Play at least 3 non-D&D RPGs (Nov status: Complete! 3/3)
Writing
- Publish a blog post per day (Nov status: on track!)
- Publish 6 items on DriveThruRPG (Nov status: 0/6)
- Write 18 reviews (including Game of the Month reviews) (Nov status: Complete! 50/18)
And that was November. Catch you in December!
No Rerolls 
Hope you get better soon. Chin up!
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