RPG a Day 2025 Day 16: Overcome
Happy Saturday! Third weekend of RPG a Day for 2025. The prompt for today is Overcome. There are many challenges we must overcome, both personally and as a community, and as a hobby....
August 16, 2025
Improve Your Game
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RPG a Day 2025 Day 14: Mystery
Today’s prompt for RPG a Day 2025 is Mystery, and mysteries are hard! All facetiousness aside, running a tabletop role-playing game mystery can be difficult, and we’ve been trying to do it almost...
August 14, 2025
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RPG a Day 2025 Day 11: Flavour
Day 11? What’s this? Yes, I know I’ve missed two days! Traveling back home after being away for a while due to work, a day-long blackout on the weekend before back-to-school Monday, all...
August 11, 2025
RPG a Day 2025 Day 3: Tavern
Well, thank you for dropping by the blog on Sunday. Here for day 3 of RPG a Day? Let’s get going. Let’s try something different today. The prompt for today is Tavern, but...
August 3, 2025
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RPG a Day 2025 Day 2: Prompt
Welcome back to day 2 of RPG a Day 2025. Happy Saturday! In a very meta way, the prompt for today is Prompt. Like yesterday, let’s go to the Merriam-Webster dictionary for the...
August 2, 2025
Lazy Friday Video Post: “NO.”
Saying no to my players is something I’ve struggled with for years. In my early years I was actually pretty restrictive, which sometimes led to frustration from my players. Eventually I tried to...
December 18, 2020
Quick and Easy Friends
I am all in favour of an easy life. Although I have never played 5e it [D&D] hasn’t changed that much in past 40+ years that I cannot look at a stat block...
October 4, 2019
Guest Post: Combat of the Thirty
Handling chivalry in RPGs is hard. Genre fiction loves chivalry and honor almost as much as it loves jaded pessimism – and it often shoves the two philosophies together in ways that seem...
September 10, 2019
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#RPGaDay 2019, let’s do this one more time! (Days 1 to 4)
August 5, 2019
Easy NPC Reactions
Michael recently posted about the 3hex style of starting a game off easily with minimal prep. I thought I would share a technique that makes for interesting and sophisticated ‘common’ NPCs but without...
March 23, 2019
Podcast Recommendation: The Dungeon Master’s Handbook
This is a quick follow-up to my last post. I got in touch with Michael Shorten aka ChicagoWiz and asked him for advice on how to run old-school sandbox games. He pointed me...
March 14, 2019
Confessions of a terrible GM
Ok, I am probably not that bad, but sometimes I feel that way. I’ve run games that were terribly boring, extremely formulaic, and I made every mistake at least twice. I remember game...
October 25, 2018
#RPGaDay2018 – Day 21 and 22: Which dice mechanic and non-dice mechanic appeal to you?
Hello everybody… although I posted my videos yesterday on my YouTube channel and the channel for Desde la Fosa, I neglected writing a post and sharing them with you. These two days are...
August 23, 2018
Quietly beavering away
Today’s RPGaDay2018 question is something like “Which non-dice systems appeal to you?” This made me think of a strange little RPG called ABS 12. I will say right from the start that I...
August 22, 2018
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#RPGaDay2018 – Playing catch up for Days 11, 12 & 13
I mention that I plan on not falling behind on my #RPGaDay2018 posts, and I miss two days… jinx! To be sincere, getting ready for the upcoming baby (Yes, I am going to...
August 13, 2018