# RPG A DAY 2024: Most often played RPG? tags: #thoughts #thoughts/RPGaDay/2024 ![[RPGaDAY2024-024x723.jpg]] This is actually quite a weird fact. But the game that I've had the most opportunity to play for reasons which are entirely bizarre is the original **[[Ironsworn]]**. ![[Ironsworn (cover).jpg]] The hilarious thing is that despite the fact that I own literally thousands of other TTRPGs and I enjoy quite a number of them, which all allow for solo play or small group play, I've written enough things this year specifically touching on **Ironsworn** even though I actually prefer **[[Ironsworn - Starforged|Starforged]]** at almost every turn — that it has literally been the game that I've played the most of without question. Among the things that I've written: - **[[hybrid-chain-reaction-ironsworn-bitd-resolution|Chain Reaction 2023 / Ironsworn / Blades in the Dark : Initial Thoughts: Resolution Comparison]]** - *[[Hollow Places of the Soul]]* - **[[Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny - DND to Ironsworn|Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny: D&D to Ironsworn]]** …plus a bunch of other things which come up when you simply click on **[[Ironsworn]]** as a link in this digital garden. You can see everything that links to it. Most of those things, but particularly these, involve a fair amount of actual putting things together and playing with them in order to have a really good feel for what it is I'm saying. Yes, I actually try and see if things that I say work in practice. I know this is madness, probably insanity. What are you going to do? It is the way it is. The funny thing is that there is going to be more of the same because I intend to turn **[[Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny - DND to Ironsworn|Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny]]** into an actual one shot that you can throw out on the table and get people playing Ironsworn with pre-generated characters and everything else that you would expect, as well as some guidance in getting people who've only played **D&D** into the Ironsworn mindset. That's going to probably consume a fair amount of time in the upcoming several months after [[DragonCon]], if you can imagine I'm not going to be able to escape. There is no end to it. I don't mind it so much. Also, even if I look at the other one-shot project I'm planning to work on, I still don't get off the hook because it is about a conversion of the 1984 Dungeons & Dragons cartoon into **[[Ironsworn - Starforged|Sundered Isles]]**, which does borrow a little bit from **Ironsworn**:. It just never ends. - **[[Thoughts on Dungeons and Dragons 2483|Thoughts on: Dungeons and Dragons 2483]]**