Jeepers gang. It's a #TTRPG mystery for Day 14 of the #RPGaDAY2025 Challenge. #RPGaDAY
RPGaDAY2025 Day 14: Mystery – TardisCaptain's Blog of Holding
https://tardiscaptain.com/2025/08/14/rpgaday2025-day-14-mystery/
Jeepers gang. It's a #TTRPG mystery for Day 14 of the #RPGaDAY2025 Challenge. #RPGaDAY
RPGaDAY2025 Day 14: Mystery – TardisCaptain's Blog of Holding
https://tardiscaptain.com/2025/08/14/rpgaday2025-day-14-mystery/
#RPGaDay #14: MYSTERY
How can some gamers roleplay fantasy, but not reality?
#rpgaday2025 Day 14 Mystery. Mystery scenarios offer the greatest opportunity for players to provide GMs with material during the session through their theories. They can virtually write scenarios for you, but you have to listen closely.
#RPGaDay2025 Day 14: Mystery
How I run a mystery is informed by GUMSHOE. Players ask questions? They get answers. Players need to know something to move the game forward? They get what they need to know. Moving the mystery along is better than watching it grind to a halt.
#rpgaday2025 Day 13 DARKNESS. Darkness in a #TTRPG doesn't have to be supernatural in nature. Desperate people, reckless actions, impossible circumstances, and tragic infatuations can be as chilling as vampirism or lycanthropy. #Noir themed games exploit this to the max.
#RPGaDay #13: DARKNESS
How does darkness beset roleplaying, within and without?
https://youtube.com/shorts/gRslPAAn4xI
On Day 13 of the #RPGaDAY2025 Challenge I say "Hello darkness my old friend. How are you used in #TTRPG again?" #RPGaDAY
RPGaDAY2025 Day 13: Darkness – TardisCaptain's Blog of Holding
https://tardiscaptain.com/2025/08/13/rpgaday2025-day-13-darkness/
#RPGaDay2025 Day 13: Darkness
Darkness - the absence of light - symbolizes depression, a lack of enlightenment, and evil. Let's subvert that! Darkness is a good place to hide, be left alone, or find quiet. A somber tone need not characterize those who are in it.
#RPGaDay2025 Day 12 PATH. I don't have much for this prompt except that I remember enjoying RTG s Lifepath system during Mekton II character creation.
Melodramatic hooks for future sessions and skill bonuses. Gimme more of that!
RPGaDAY2025 - Day 12 - Path - Mystic Secrets of the New Jersey PATH system
A weird urban fantasy setting:
#RPGaDay #11: FLAVOUR
What do I do to experience a range of flavours in roleplaying.
#RPGaDay2025 Day 12: Path
I discuss the path forward with our group. Where we think the current campaign is headed. The games we're interested in playing later. Ideas for what to do next. Talking about the path ahead maintains interest and generates enthusiasm.
Most years I am pretty excited, but I cannot get into #RPGADay2025. I always appreciate David F. Chapman coming up with the graphic and info. However, this year I cannot get into the prompts. It is easier for me to have something direct, like "Favorite Sci-Fi RPG" than a prompt like "Ancient". I like the premise, but it is just not for me this year.
https://www.autocratik.com/2025/07/announcing-rpgaday2025-in-august.html
#rpgaday2025 Day 11 Flavour
In the early 2000s, I put together a mini campaign called "Five Flavours of Fear." Each adventure would be set in a different subgenre of #horror.
Slasher
Gothic Horror
Survival Horror
Comedy Horror
Lovecraftian Horror
It wasn't a success due to scheduling problems (the real archfiend of #TTRPG sessions), but it was interesting enough that I'll probably revisit it one day.
For Day 11 of the #RPGaDAY2025 Challenge I talk about what #TTRPG characters could eat in a dungeon. #RPGaDAY
RPGaDAY2025 Day 11: Flavor – TardisCaptain's Blog of Holding
https://tardiscaptain.com/2025/08/11/rpgaday2025-day-11-flavor/
#RPGaDay2025 Day 11: Flavor
Folks prefer organic over boxed text. Working details into the flow of the game is fresher than reading novel excerpts at glassy eyed players. Cook flavor into play.
Compilation of my responses to the second week of prompts. Now with extra commentary and wry observations!
https://overthehillgaming.blogspot.com/2025/08/rpgaday-2025-week-2-recap-and-commentary.html
#RPGaDay #10: ORIGIN
How I got introduced to Dungeons & Dragons and roleplaying.
Here's an audio recap of the first 10 #RPGaDAY2025 prompts. #TTRPG #RPGaDAY https://open.spotify.com/episode/2xEJnob8RMGOwhDWAIKUyC?si=myu96z6oSkuwXGManGrRVQ