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?

Tavern – RPGaDAY 2025 Day 3

#RPGaDAY2025 Day 3 - Tavern Starting an adventure in a tavern with a hooded stranger? How cliched! But that's not necessarily a bad thing. And don't forget how much your tavern can communicate.

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

How do you run Mass Combat in D&D?

D&D is designed for combats with a handful on each side. So how do you scale that up to larger numbers? Here are various suggestions, from the DMG, @slyflourish, @louanders, #TalesOfTheValiant, and the #BECMI Companion set

Is D&D a story-telling game?

You read a lot of arguments on the Internet about role-playing games versus story-telling games. In particular there are vocal factions who sell D&D as a story-telling game (both calling this a good thing and a bad). DaggerHeart, the new RPG from the Critical Role team, seems to have stirred the question up again – … Continue reading Is D&D a story-telling game? →

Session Prep Tooling

I've been thinking about how I prepare for my D&D sessions, and I feel there must a tool that would help. Before I start, here's a review of what I do now, and what any tool would have to give me.

How do you summon a demon?

How do you summon a demon? And then how do you dismiss it again? I've had to come up with answers to both of these for my #dnd #5e campaign - feel free to reuse.