Craig and I are in talks to explore Zephyr and/or Nibiru. Our imaginary aides are hammering out the details~

There are lots of RPG references throughout the series, but False Value currently stands as the single entry with the most references and the deepest cuts for gamers by @benaaronovitch.bsky.social

An unnecessary fracture in the RPG hobby has formed around the idea that it should function around gaining individual consent *rather than* around finding consensus within the group. The longer the opposite views go without grasping the uses and contexts of each, the wider that fracture will grow.

I have caught up with the end of another fun #RPGaDay. Some more fun and interesting posts for this year’s #RPGaDay2025. 🙂 I used the prompts to make a game handout, but that hasn’t been revealed in game yet, hence why I’ve not shared it yet. 😀 batjutsu.wordpress.com/2025/09/04/r...

Despite decades of strong evidence in rereads, gaming, and personal skill development, it has just occurred to me that my personal (savior) Tolkien is Dumas.

I know I fell behind and I will catch up (work kinda took over) but I just wanted to thank everyone who took part in #RPGaDAY2025 this year. Really appreciate it and I hope you enjoyed telling stories and spreading the positive word of how great our hobby can be. Thank you all.

The fourth and final quick summary short for my daily responses on castingshadowsblog.com has been released in its unfathomable brevity~ youtube.com/shorts/Uj8pc...

#RPGaDAY2025#RPGaDAY2025DAY 31: REWARD Today is the thirty-first and final day of #RPGaDAY2025 and our efforts to reach this final prompt of reward offer two rewards. The first is the satisfaction of completion. The second is the chance to lay down the tools of creation and take a breath. This task is done…

Meguey and Vincent are some of the most thoughtful, generous, and creative game designers of our time. You owe it to yourself to back this campaign when it goes live.

#RPGaDAY2025#RPGaDAY2025DAY 30: EXPERIENCE Today is the thirtieth day of August and so #RPGaDAY2025 has reached its 30th prompt: experience. If we take this word at its face value, we find it relates to ability obtained through trials. If we push just a bit harder, we might end up thinking that what that…

#RPGaDAY2025 has found its way to its 29th prompt in the usual way, moving forward inexorably in an unbroken line from the first day to this one. That prompt, exemplifies that description, of course, and it is connect... castingshadowsblog.com/2025/08/29/r...

#RPGaDAY2025#RPGaDAY2025DAY 28: SUSPENSE #RPGaDAY2025 has reached its twenty-seventh day, and the prompt for Day 27 is tactic. On the heels of yesterday's 'nemesis,' thinking about a good tactic now is either madness or genius. Of course, when faced with that sort of enemy, there might be no discernable…

#RPGaDAY2025#RPGaDAY2025DAY 27: TACTIC #RPGaDAY2025 has reached its twenty-seventh day, and the prompt for Day 27 is tactic. On the heels of yesterday's 'nemesis,' thinking about a good tactic now is either madness or genius. Of course, when faced with that sort of enemy, there might be no discernable…

#RPGaDAY2025#RPGaDAY2025DAY 26: NEMESIS #RPGaDAY2025 has reached its twenty-sixth day and the prompt for Day 26 is nemesis. This is a very popular word in and out of gaming, and of course that popularity has caused its meaning to drift to one of lesser stature as a result, like awesome or groovy. Unlike many…

#RPGaDAY2025#RPGaDAY2025DAY 25: CHALLENGE #RPGaDAY2025 has reached its twenty-fifth day and the prompt for Day 25 is challenge. With the end of the event less than a week away, it can be a challenge to cross the metaphorical finish line, but this has been another good year for participants finding effective…

The third of four survey shorts, this one recounting the key points of the last week's #RPGaDAY2025 posts from the Casting Shadows blog in less than 3 minutes, is now available~ #rpg #ttrpg youtube.com/shorts/6b433...

#RPGaDAY2025#RPGaDAY2025DAY 24: REVEAL This is the twenty-fourth day of #RPGaDAY2025 and today the prompt was leaked over a month ago now and has been impossible to keep out of the news ever since. Even on this very blog, where you might assume we might have total control over the content, the prompt was…

At the top of the hour, it will be 8am CT/2pm UK Start off the weekend with some RPG banter. Join us in the chat! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU1e...

#RPGaDAY2025#RPGaDAY2025DAY 23: RECENT This is the twenty-third day of #RPGaDAY2025 and today the prompt is recent. In our most recent prompt response, we looked at the word ally and examined it in terms of the villainous villains with their vile villainy, while also taking the time to praise the…

#RPGaDAY2025#RPGaDAY2025DAY 22: ALLY This is the twenty-second day of #RPGaDAY2025 and today the prompt is ally. There are only 9 days left in this year's event, after today. For me, it has gone quite quickly and I have enjoyed a lot of the posts I have found out there in the wilds of the Internet every day.…

#RPGaDAY2025#RPGaDAY2025DAY 21: UNEXPECTED This is the twenty-first day of #RPGaDAY2025 and today the prompt that leaps on us from surprise on the shelf is the word unexpected. The more experienced a group becomes, the less common it can be to encounter the unexpected. Often a group moves over time from a…

#RPGaDAY2025#RPGaDAY2025DAY 20: ENTER This is the twentieth day of #RPGaDAY2025 and today the prompt on the shelf is the word enter. It wants to know what is in our hearts - and how it got there.

#RPGaDAY2025#RPGaDAY2025DAY 19: DESTINY This is the nineteenth day of #RPGaDAY2025 and our prompt today is destiny. I like the idea of destiny, especially as an in-character notion that comes up in conversation in play~

#RPGaDAY2025#RPGaDAY2025DAY 18: SIGN This is the eighteenth day of #RPGaDAY2025 and our prompt today is sign. When I started to think about this prompt, my mind turned to the epic struggle between the Man in Black and the Giant in the Princess Bride where the Giant, when prompted, gives a kindly progress…

#RPGaDAY2025#RPGaDAY2025DAY 17: RENEW This is the seventeenth day of #RPGaDAY2025 and our prompt today is renew. Let's look at this prompt from the point of view of the characters. There are a lot of things to say about this prompt from the perspective of the players or the player who takes on the role of GM…

I don’t want to say this out loud, because it feels so final and unlikely, but this is the last planned episode of Roleplay Rescue: The Play’s The Thing —> shows.acast.com/roleplayresc...

Day 14 #RPGaday2025: Mystery For mystery games that don't get talked about enough, see Inspectres (invent your own clues), Serial Homicide Unit (roll to see whether your mystery solution is correct) and Dirty Secrets (there's a board, it gets complicated). www.patreon.com/posts/97178756

This is a short summation (less than 3 minutes) of Days 8 through 16 of RPGaDAY posts from the Casting Shadows Blog as we develop a layered campaign pitch of investigation, civic and moral resistance, and otherworldly exploration for #RPGaDAY2025 #rpg #ttrpg youtube.com/shorts/ytUn2...

#RPGaDAY2025#RPGaDAY2025DAY 16: OVERCOME I trust that you have no reason to disbelieve that this is the sixteenth day of #RPGaDAY2025 an that overcome is our prompt today. I like to think that we have come a long way together, Dear Reader, and that you have learned to trust that I won't get stuck on…

#RPGaDAY2025#RPGaDAY2025DAY 15: DECEIVE I could tell you that this is the sixteenth day of #RPGaDAY2025 but that would be a lie and I would never intentionally deceive you. However, deceive is our prompt today and I am happy to explore some appropriate elements of deception with you, Dear Reader, in regard…

#RPGaDAY2025#RPGaDAY2025DAY 14: MYSTERY This is day fourteen of #RPGaDAY2025 and so it's time for mystery to be our prompt. So far, we have established a framework to recruit initial, additional, and subsequent characters as needed to an ongoing cause. What it is time to start considering is a pivotal moment…

#RPGaDAY2025#RPGaDAY2025DAY 13: DARKNESS This is day thirteen of #RPGaDAY2025 and we have come now to darkness. We are creeping closer to the middle of the event, and through the preceding prompts several of the conceptual frames of the campaign pitch we are using the prompts to build have begun to coalesce.

#RPGaDAY2025#RPGaDAY2025DAY 12: PATH This is day twelve of #RPGaDAY2025 and we have come to the word path as our prompt today. One common way to run mysteries and horror in RPGs is to think of a path from some crime or troubling past event and link it in stages via clues to some future ending point. This…

On listening to @ubiquitousrat.bsky.social excellent Roleplay Rescue podcast on 'The Story Divide' with @runeslinger.bsky.social, I also went to one of my source texts to find out more. Which side are you on? farhavens.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...

#RPGaDAY2025#RPGaDAY2025DAY 11: FLAVOR This is the eleventh day of #RPGaDAY2025 which sits deliciously between the tenth and twelfth days like a favorite filling inside light and flakey pie crusts. The prompt is flavor and is another one which, in terms of working through the formation of a campaign pitch…

When is a pool of dice not a pool of dice? When it is something else... youtu.be/VhD_nVIcn7E #rpg #ttrpg

#RPGaDAY2025#RPGaDAY2025DAY 10: ORIGIN This is the tenth day of #RPGaDAY2025 and the prompt today is origin. Leading up to this prompt we have examined what our villainous cult of villains is doing with their villainy, and we have looked at their motivations in being so vile. What we have not yet brought out…

#RPGaDay - 9: INSPIRE What inspires my #ttrpg experience? To break away from the usual film, TV and books on story - business and marketing books. What? You might say. Well... For example, business and marketing storytelling over books in fiction... www.fandomlife.net/7385/

#RPGaDAY2025 DAY 9: INSPIRE This 9th prompt presents itself to me along several fronts. First, it asks me to consider the players when choosing to accept the pitch for this campaign, and their characters when acting, reacting, and interacting within it. It also asks me to consider myself and what…

#RPGaDAY2025#RPGaDAY2025DAY 8: EXPLORE This is the 8th day of #RPGaDAY2025. Most, but not all, of the prompts this year will be put into the campaign pitch we are modelling the development of in ways that affect all of the players directly, but for this one, I think it's time to take a step to the side to…

#RPGaDay2025 Day 7 Journey A few days back, I talked about the Tavern as the iconic adventuring location, maybe as famous as the dungeon itself. But that’s only one, very early stop on the Journey. Capital J. theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2025/08/rpga...

It's not interpretive dance, but it's close enough for joy~ #RPGaDAY2025 - Day 7 - Journey. Yes, I do mean the band Journey polyhedralnonsense.com/2025/08/07/r...

Day 7: Journey Something something mashups of Journey songs and Hobbit/LOTR music something something And then a one-page game based off them (I'm really out of it today y'all) #RPGaDay2025

#RPGaDAY Day 7: Journey! Oops, running a bit late with this one. This topic inspired UK TIN members to talk about their personal journeys - in the gaming community, in their careers, and as part of UK TIN. Most of our journeys in games are entirely fictional, but they're meaningful nevertheless!

I have been writing blog entries for each #RPGaDAY2025 prompt. Here is a recap of the first 7 in less than 3 minutes~ youtube.com/shorts/Ywvjb...

#RPGaDAY2025#RPGaDAY2025DAY 7: JOURNEY This is the seventh day of #RPGaDAY2025 and the prompt today is journey. It is this sort of prompt which fills me with hope that some day, love will find you and break the chains that bind you. While we are waiting for that happy moment, however, let's consider how the…

#RPGaDAY2025#RPGaDAY2025DAY 6: MOTIVE The sixth day of #RPGaDAY2025 means we need to consider our motives~

#RPGaDay2025 - Day 5: Ancient It wasn’t that the library itself was evil. At least, not initially. But how often do you find an ancient text with the ability to corrupt other texts?

Day 5 of #rpgaday2025: Ancient. @inkle.co 's archaeological storytelling game, Heaven's Vault, has a language called Ancient. I especially like the ambiguity: this phrase could be either "Robots speak history" or "Robots tell stories", which give very different impressions of what robots do.