#RPGaDAY

TardisCaptain.comTardisCaptain@dice.camp
2025-08-15

Jeepers gang. It's a #TTRPG mystery for Day 14 of the #RPGaDAY2025 Challenge. #RPGaDAY

RPGaDAY2025 Day 14: Mystery – TardisCaptain's Blog of Holding
tardiscaptain.com/2025/08/14/r

2025-08-14

#RPGaDay #14: MYSTERY

How can some gamers roleplay fantasy, but not reality?

youtube.com/shorts/CNbdo9TVa9M

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#ttrpg #ttrpgs

2025-08-14

#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.

#TTRPG #RPGaDay

Over the Hill Gamingoverthehill@dice.camp
2025-08-14

#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.

#RPGaDay #ttrpg #ttrpgs

2025-08-14

#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

The cover of Hard City. A reporter and a P.I. creep apprehensively through the dark.The cover of Lesbian Noir. A retro styled femme fatale in lingerie gazes archly at the reader.The cover of Quill Noir showing a P.I. in a raincoat and hat holding a revolver.The cover of Noir showing Lee Van Cleef and Earl Holliman holding revolvers in a scene from "The Big Combo" (1955).
2025-08-13

#RPGaDay #13: DARKNESS

How does darkness beset roleplaying, within and without?

youtube.com/shorts/gRslPAAn4xI

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#TTRPG #TTRPGS

TardisCaptain.comTardisCaptain@dice.camp
2025-08-13

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
tardiscaptain.com/2025/08/13/r

Over the Hill Gamingoverthehill@dice.camp
2025-08-13

#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.

#RPGaDay #ttrpg #ttrpgs

2025-08-13

#RPGaDay #12: PATH

Down what paths has roleplaying taken me?

youtube.com/shorts/EWKovcT2vXs

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#ttrpg #ttrpgs

2025-08-13

#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!

#TTRPG #Anime #RPGaDay

The cover of Mekton II showing 3 anime style mechwarriors in front of a mech with an energy whip.
2025-08-12

RPGaDAY2025 - Day 12 - Path - Mystic Secrets of the New Jersey PATH system

A weird urban fantasy setting:

polyhedralnonsense.com/2025/08

#RPG, #RPGaDAY2025, #RPGaDAY #Ttrpg

2025-08-12

#RPGaDay #11: FLAVOUR

What do I do to experience a range of flavours in roleplaying.

youtube.com/shorts/QWo1km87ZH0

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#ttrpg #ttrpgs

Over the Hill Gamingoverthehill@dice.camp
2025-08-12

#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.

#RPGaDay #ttrpg #ttrpgs

Dionysus 🍇Dionysus@dice.camp
2025-08-11

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.

autocratik.com/2025/07/announc

#TTRPG #RPGADay

This year's graphic is a bookshelf, with 31 books with single words to inspire and prompt some sort of discussion about tabletop gaming. As you work your way through all 31 through the days of August, you'll notice they vaguely follow an arc - meeting a patron, going on a journey, encounters, puzzles, final confrontation and the reward at the end. But you don't have to follow the hero's journey, you can just use the prompts to inspire a cool post for the day. 

Text Version of the Prompts
Daily Prompts

1) Patron

2) Prompt

3) Tavern

4) Message

5) Ancient

6) Motive

7) Journey

8) Explore

9) Inspire

10) Origin

11) Flavour

12) Path

13) Darkness

14) Mystery

15) Deceive

16) Overcome

17) Renew

18) Sign

19) Destiny

20) Enter

21) Unexpected

22) Ally

23) Recent

24) Reveal

25) Challenge

26) Nemesis

27) Tactic

28) Suspense

29) Connect

30) Experience

31) Reward

Question Prompts (roll D6)

1) Who

2) What

3) Where

4) When 

5) Why

6) How
Mood Prompts (roll D10)

1) Envious

2) Nostalgic

3) Proud

4) Enthusiastic

5) Confident

6) Optimistic

7) Lucky

8) Grateful

9) Contemplative

10) Excited

Subject Prompts (roll D8) 

1) Adventure

2) Character

3) Genre

4) Rule

5) Accessory

6) Art

7) Person

8) Lesson
2025-08-11

#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.

#RPGaDay

TardisCaptain.comTardisCaptain@dice.camp
2025-08-11

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
tardiscaptain.com/2025/08/11/r

Over the Hill Gamingoverthehill@dice.camp
2025-08-11

#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.

#RPGaDay #ttrpg #ttrpgs

Over the Hill Gamingoverthehill@dice.camp
2025-08-11

Compilation of my responses to the second week of prompts. Now with extra commentary and wry observations!

overthehillgaming.blogspot.com

#blog #rpgaday #rpgaday2025 #ttrpg #ttrpgs

2025-08-10

#RPGaDay #10: ORIGIN

How I got introduced to Dungeons & Dragons and roleplaying.

youtube.com/shorts/hFlKjZdfomo

#RPGaDay25 #DnD
#ttrpg #ttrpgs

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