Message – RPGaDAY 2025 Day 4 – update

In RPGaDay 2025 Day 4, I responded to "Message" by talking about how difficult it is to communicate long-distance without telephones. This is an update after a reader reminded me of sempahore and other signals at a distance.

Message – RPGaDAY 2025 Day 4

RPGaDAY 2025 day 4 has the prompt “message”. It’s easy to forget in these days of email, text, instant message, and social media, just how much effort it was to send a message in the mediaeval days which are the pattern for classic fantasy. So how can your characters and the people in their world send messages?

Prompt – RPGaDAY 2025 Day 2

RPGaDAY2025 Day 2 has the prompt "prompt". I look at promtness in combat, and prompts to aid the players and GM in ensuring that responses are indeed prompt.

Patron – RPGaDAY2025 Day 1

RPGaDAY Day 1: Patron What is a patron? What is the relevance to a role-playing game? Meet my campaign patron, Omar.

RPGaDay 2025 launches tomorrow

RPGaDAY 2025 launches tomorrow, 1st August, and runs all month. Join in and follow along with the hashtag #RPGaDAY2025. Here are the prompts provided by @autokratik and @runeslinger

RPGaDay 2024 Days 2 & 3 – Most recently/often played RPG

RPGaDay 2024 days 2 and 3 - most recently played and most often played RPG. Both the same - lightly house-ruled D&D 5E, so here's the story of the last couple of sessions in my cmapaign

RPGaDay 2024 Day 1 – First RPG bought this year

#RPGaDay Day 1 - first RPG bought this year. I look at Tales of the Valiant, and a couple of the new rules it introduces.

RPGaDay 2024

It’s #RPGaDay time again. August. When a whole load of RPG fans talk about our hobbies in various ways. I'm late to the party, but I'm still going to take part.

RPGaDay Day 6 – Favourite game you NEVER get to play

RPGaDay prompt 6 is “favourite game you NEVER get to play”. I’m going to pick Bruce Heard’s Calidar here, a massive new world in three installments (so far).

RPGaDay Day 5 – Oldest game you’ve played

RPGaDay prompt 5 is “OLDEST game you’ve played”. I take this in three senses - overall game, role-playing game (DnD unsurprisingly), and module.