Day 3 of RPGaDay brings us the question of my favourite new game of the last 12 months.
This is a tough one, as although I have enjoyed many of the new games I picked up in the last 12 months, my real favourites are older than 12 months.
The “new” game that I’ve played the most of in the last year would have to be D&D 5th Edition, if you count that as a new game. I wouldn’t say that it is my favourite though. I do like it and think it’s the best of the editions, but I’ve moved on from D&D, and aside from a few nostalgia games or pick-up games when nothing else is available, it’s not a go-to game for me.
Otherwise, the winner would have to be Spirit of 77, an Apocalypse World hack set in groovy 1977. It’s gotten the most play in the last year (2 games vs 1 or less for the rest). You can find my review and first time we played it here. Our encore is found here. 
Justin Schmid
Justin started tabletop gaming in 1983 with Basic D&D (red box) and never looked back. He runs and plays in a wide variety of games, including Savage Worlds, Dungeon World, Trail of Cthulhu and many, many more.
He also writes professionally for role-playing games, including writing and creating Night's Edge an Alternate Reality Universe for Cyberpunk 2020. He went on to write eight more adventures and sourcebooks in the Night's Edge line, adding vampires and other supernatural perils to the already dangerous world of Cyberpunk.
As a freelance writer, he wrote The Bermuda Triangle for Call of Cthulhu, Shadows of the Mind, and Psi Wars for Conspiracy X and contributed to Last Unicorn's Star Trek RPG, as well as to Cybergeneration sourcebooks, and many other games.
When he's not creating imaginary worlds for his daughter, he's running games for his friends and writing new adventures or designing new game systems. He currently lives in Vancouver, B.C., Canada.