So, here's the awkward question, but how many games did you play this year?

 I struggled with writing a funny preamble for this, but since the beginning of last year, I decided to try and get down just how much I actually played games and really tried to beat the forces of laziness and novelty to try and get as many games of Battletech as I possibly could in. I also decided to just sort of record every game I played and what that has led to is a hell of a lot of extra game time. It turns out gamifying playing games helped me want to play more games. Laziness and Novelty are the hobbyists greatest fears - there's always a Cool New Thing to buy - Warhammer: The Old World is coming out next year and I can't say I'm not tempted, but with 200+ models to paint including and entire Skaven and Cities of Sigmar army, I don't really have the ability to justify any more Warhammer (or any hobby stuff) that isn't outside of more art supplies, novels etc. Models have to go away for awhile, doubly so since I'm also waiting for my Torch and Shield rewards, which will be dumping a massive set of Dungeon Tiles onto my lap along with 30+ dwarfs and I think like 20 monsters. 

Anyway, here's the games I played this year with number of times played, dates omitted for privacy protections:

Battletech(Classic): 8 games

Battletech(Alpha Strike): 8 games

Mechwarrior Destiny: 4 sessions (DM)

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: 6 sessions (DM)

Cyberpunk RED: Two sessions (player)

Space Weirdos (3 Games)

Warhammer: Age of Sigmar (2 games)

Blood Bowl (3 Games)
Dungeon Bowl (2 Games)
Blood Bowl 7's (1 game)

War of the Ring (2 games)

Inis (4 games, I have no idea how to play INIS)

Return to Dark Tower (2 games) 

Escape the Dark Castle (1 game)

MESBG - (2 games)

OSE (6 games, DM)

Torch and Shield (3 games)

Warcry (2 games)

The Dwarves (1 game)

This is a marked improvement for me, since I only played three games in total in 2022, and they were literally just Battletech teaching games. So my goal of 2023 was basically, "Play a shitload more of the games you have." and I have succeeded tremendously.

That being said, I bought way too many god-damned miniatures this year, so it's going to be time to paint all of them....it's only 908 miniatures.....