Happy Monday! We begin the final week of RPG a Day 2025. This month has really flown by. I’m still missing one post for the month, specifically day 10, and I will get...
Dear reader, I hope you are having a relaxed Sunday. And now for your reading enjoyment, here is an RPG a Day 2025 post. The prompt for today, the 24th, is Reveal. The...
Hello readers, happy Monday. For day 18, the prompt is Sign. I mentioned on day 9 how Babylon 5 was an inspiration, and this prompt immediately makes a connection for me with an...
Sunday funday! Today’s prompt is Renew, and I’ve been thinking about how to approach the topic. Renew is a verb that means to resume (an activity) after an interruption. I have historically run...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
