My 2025 West Marches Wrapped
It has been a year since I started DMing a West Marches Campaign, and a group of adventurers landed on Soldier Port, the main enclave of Griffin Island. Here is a little celebration of the things we accomplished together:
- 34 sessions played
- The mean session attendance is 4.6 players
- The mean attendance per player is 10.4 sessions
- Two thirds of players have proposed at least a session
- 46 stories written by the players narrating what happened in the sessions
- Two players have written 27 (59%) of those 46 stories
- At least 9 players have written a story
- 15 players and 15 characters
- The most popular class is druid with 3 players, each with a different subclass
- Humans are the most popular species with a third of the characters
- Two players are already level 8
I'm really grateful for discovering this mode of play; my old campaigns had been either too short or plagued by scheduling problems. Now I'm playing more than ever. Certainly, I've never played more than 20 sessions in one year before. And this year I've easily more than doubled that with the other games and oneshots I've played. I'm really hopeful about 2026!
P.S. Am I the only one who gets really upset by the fact that the Spotify Wrapped is at the beginning of December and not at the end?