Looking ahead 2018 (Gamewise)

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My looking-forward, games-wise, for 2018:

* Finish all the Time Stories scenarios. We're 4-in, of, I believe, 7. (4 of us.) We do about 1 every other month (scheduling concerns).
* Finish Pathfinder Adventure Card Game. Rise and Skulls are done, and we're almost done with Wrath. Already have Mummy ready. (Mostly just me and my husband.) An adventure path takes us about 8 months (we play it in between other games).
* Keep playing Gloomhaven with my hubby and our friend. DAMN THAT GAME IS GOOD! This could go into 2019; there's seemingly a lot of content.
* 7th Continent should be arriving. I'm anxious to play it.
* LNOE HP2, if it ever hits retail. And whatever they'll release for their other (non-SOB) games, if any.
* Keep playing Terraforming Mars with anyone who will play it with me! It's a spectacular game!
* The big one: I just finished a long (nearly 3 years) Pathfinder campaign that I GM. I'm looking forward to a little downtime before I pick up GMing again.

What's going to be disappointing in 2018:
* I had just gotten into Sentinels of the Multiverse when its Kickstarter for the last ("It'll be the last we do!") of it and all its accessories/etc hit. I bought in. I don't like the game really anymore... The difficulty/curve just doesn't work with the variance for me.
* I think I'll finally give up buying anything Magic the Gathering after Rivals of Ixalon (this month). We don't really play any more and I'm not fond of the direction the game has taken... especially when pretty much every other game on the market now has given up randomized acquisition. (My favorite format to play was always "block constructed", and they're getting rid of the concept of "block"s.)
* 2017 was probably my last GenCon. Now that my friends who used to live there have been away 2 full years, it's awkward to arrange couch-surfing.

Probably won't afford it wishlist:
* I've always wanted to dive into the Arkham Horror LCG and/or Elder Sign [the card-based board-game-style mythos game]. I'm not a big fan of the mythos, but these might do it in ways I like.