Tomorrow is the start of August, so it’s time for RPGaDAY 2025 – the annual #RPGaDAY challenge.
Now in its 12th year, RPGaDAY is the brainchild of David F. Chapman (Autokratik) and Runeslinger of CastingShadows. Everyone is invited to blog, vlog or otherwise post every day about role-playing games in response to a prompt.
You can find the posts via the hashtag #RPGaDAY2025 across social media, and/or via the home Facebook page facebook.com/RPGaDAY – read them, enjoy them, share them, discuss them. And if you can’t post every day, join in with what you can (that’s been my approach over the last few years).
For more details, see Runeslinger’s invitation or Autokratik’s explanation.
The Prompts
This year, the prompts return to single-word prompts, which I prefer – it gives more scope for interpretation than questions – and they are displayed in a cool bookshelf:
- Patron
- Prompt
- Tavern
- Message
- Ancient
- Motive
- Journey
- Explore
- Inspire
- Origin
- Flavour
- Path
- Darkness
- Mystery
- Deceive
- Overcome
- Renew
- Sign
- Destiny
- Enter
- Unexpected
- Ally
- Recent
- Reveal
- Challenge
- Nemesis
- Tactic
- Suspense
- Connect
- Experience
- Reward
Secondary elements/inspiration
This year, for variety, they have three secondary elements which can be used to help inspiration, a d6 questions, d10 moods and d8 subjects:
Question (roll d6):
- Who
- What
- Where
- When
- Why
- How
Mood (roll d10):
- Envious
- Nostalgic
- Proud
- Enthusiastic
- Confident
- Optimistic
- Lucky
- Grateful
- Contemplative
- Excited
Subject (roll d8):
- Adventure
- Character
- Genre
- Rule
- Accessory
- Art
- Person
- Lesson
UK Tabletop Industry Network
For those of us in the UK and Ireland, check out the UK Tabletop Industry Network who is supporting RPGaDAY, as shown in our special version of the graphic. Connect via:
- Check out the UK TIN Discord
- Subscribe to the Substack at uktin.substack.com
Summary
So get writing, recording, drawing, or whatever, post under the #RPGaDAY2025 hashtag, and add a response on the RPGaDAY Facebook page. Or just watch for the hashtag and/or follow the Facebook page to be inspired by others’ posts. I don’t know how many posts I will manage, since I have a tendency toward detailed posts which take several evenings to craft, and I have a busy month coming up, but check my blog and RPGaDAY summary page
So looking forward to all the RPGaDAY shenanigans!