#rpgaday2025 — Public Fediverse posts

In #RPGaDay2025 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 semaphore and other signals at a distance.

https://melestrua.net/2025/12/31/message-rpgaday-2025-day-4-update/

My after-action report for the #RPGaDAY2025 Challenge. I did a lot of talking about various #TTRPG topics. I felt good about my #RPGaDAY entries.

RPGaDAY2025 After Action Report – TardisCaptain's Blog of Holding
https://tardiscaptain.com/2025/09/02/rpgaday2025-after-action-report/

Best of RPGaDAY2025

Some of the highlights of the recent RPGaDAY2025 challenge:

https://polyhedralnonsense.com/2025/09/01/best-of-rpgaday2025/

#RPGaDAY2025, #Ttrpg

Day 31 of the #RPGaDAY2025 Challenge, and we made it. Today, I blog about the rewards of #TTRPG and how they help us. #RPGaDAY

RPGaDAY2025 Day 31: Reward – TardisCaptain's Blog of Holding
https://tardiscaptain.com/2025/08/31/rpgaday2025-day-31-reward/

#RPGaDay2025 Day 31: Reward

The true reward is the friends we made along the way. And the tales we get to share. Plus the loot our characters found. And the levels they gained. But mostly the friendship thing. And the stories.

#RPGaDay #ttrpg #ttrpgs

#RPGaDay2025 Day 31 - Reward
I see talk about "GM Rewards" sometimes, with clubs or conventions seeking ways to incentivise GM attendance, but the truth is, I'd run games without the rewards. I do it because its the only way to be sure there are games I like available and over time, I've become better at being a GM than a PC. As long as it's not made harder to be a GM than a player, I'll show up and run games. #ttrpg

#RPGaDay2025 Day 31 - Reward
I see talk about "GM Rewards" sometimes, with clubs or conventions seeking ways to incentivise GM attendance, but the truth is, I'd run games without the rewards. I do it because its the only way to be sure there are games I like available and over time, I've become better at being a GM than a PC. As long as it's not made harder to be a GM than a player, I'll show up and run games. #ttrpg

I’ve been offline for most of August, but here’s my whirlwind tour of #RPGaDAY2025 prompts 11–30: flavour, path, mystery, darkness, destiny, suspense, and more. From Moldvay nostalgia to imposter syndrome, and why Dolmenwood feels fated.

https://onemanandhisdice.wordpress.com/2025/08/31/catching-up-rpgaday-2025-days-11-30/

We get to 'experience' Day 30 of the #RPGaDAY2025 Challenge and how it has helped me grow with my #TTRPG blog. #RPGaDAY

RPGaDAY2025 Day 30: Experience – TardisCaptain's Blog of Holding
https://tardiscaptain.com/2025/08/30/rpgaday2025-day-30-experience/

#RPGaDay2025 Day 30 - Experience
I'm leaning more towards games without experience, or with standard level-up stages across the board for all characters; there's still something to be said for that feeling of getting a new advance in PbtA games, but for story games in general, the experience is the story. 1/2 #ttrpg

#RPGaDay2025 Day 30 - Experience
I'm leaning more towards games without experience, or with standard level-up stages across the board for all characters; there's still something to be said for that feeling of getting a new advance in PbtA games, but for story games in general, the experience is the story. 1/2 #ttrpg

Day 29 of the #RPGaDAY2025 Challenge and we make the #TTRPG connection for today's topic. #RPGaDAY

RPGaDAY2025 Day 29: Connect – TardisCaptain's Blog of Holding
https://tardiscaptain.com/2025/08/29/rpgaday2025-day-29-connect/

RPGaDAY2025 - Day 29 - Connect - Running a RPG club

How I'm trying to connect with other players in a new RPG club.

https://polyhedralnonsense.com/2025/08/29/rpgaday2025-day-29-connect-running-a-rpg-club/

#RPGaDAY2025, #Ttrpg

#RPGaDay2025 DAY 28 SUSPENSE. As with so much in life, suspense in #TTRPG s is about delaying gratification, but not for so long that it becomes frustrating.

#RPGaDay

#RPGaDay2025 Day 29 - Connect
There's a good idea for a game campaign, a group of PCs travelling around, trying to connect small towns & villages to some new service, like water, telephone, rail travle. It'd make a nice over-arching theme for a Discworld campaign! Nice inspiration! #ttrpg

#RPGaDay2025 Day 29 - Connect
There's a good idea for a game campaign, a group of PCs travelling around, trying to connect small towns & villages to some new service, like water, telephone, rail travle. It'd make a nice over-arching theme for a Discworld campaign! Nice inspiration! #ttrpg

Should I tell you about the Day 28 topic for the #RPGaDAY2025 Challenge which is 'Suspense'? How does it apply to #TTRPG campaigns? #RPGaDAY

RPGaDAY2025 Day 28: Suspense – TardisCaptain's Blog of Holding
https://tardiscaptain.com/2025/08/28/rpgaday2025-day-28-suspense/

RPGaDAY2025 - Day 28 - Suspense - Giant Spiders and Webscapes

A super-suspenseful mechanic from the Webworld RPG

https://polyhedralnonsense.com/2025/08/28/rpgaday2025-day-28-suspense-giant-spiders-and-webscapes/

#RPGaDAY2025, #Ttrpg, #Webworld

#RPGaDay2025 Day 28 - Suspense
I'll share my thoughts on this tomorrow. #ttrpg

#RPGaDay2025 Day 28 - Suspense
I'll share my thoughts on this tomorrow. #ttrpg

RPGaDAY2025 - Day 27 - Tactic -Agents of T.A.C.T.I.C.

Some pregens and secret gadgets for a super-agency

https://polyhedralnonsense.com/2025/08/27/rpgaday2025-day-27-tactic-agents-of-t-a-c-t-i-c/

#QuantumEngine, #ttrpg, #RPGaDAY2025, #Superpowered

Day 27 of the #RPGaDAY2025 Challenge and I talk about tactics in #TTRPG, video games and real life. #RPGaDAY

RPGaDAY2025 Day 27: Tactic – TardisCaptain's Blog of Holding
https://tardiscaptain.com/2025/08/27/rpgaday2025-day-27-tactic/

#RPGaDay2025 Day 27 - Tactic
My main tactic when running games is to weaponize story beats and NPCs, to elicit the response I want from the players; I will shamelessly bait a trap knowing the players can't resist, or smokescreen the truth behind a wall of plausible banality, so they expect no resistance and walk into a wall. #ttrpg

#TTRPG #RPGaDay2025

Well, it's the end of the month for me, and RPG A Day 2025 is over. I've cranked out a ton of words on a pile of subjects and even a little fiction. Want all of it in one place? It's right here.

https://grimtokens.garden/Articles/RPG+a+Day/2025/RPG+a+Day+2025

#TTRPG #RPGaDay2025

Well, it's the end of the month for me, and RPG A Day 2025 is over. I've cranked out a ton of words on a pile of subjects and even a little fiction. Want all of it in one place? It's right here.

https://grimtokens.garden/Articles/RPG+a+Day/2025/RPG+a+Day+2025

RPGaDAY2025 - Day 26 - Nemesis - How to Punish a PC

Using the goddess Nemesis to enforce alignment

https://polyhedralnonsense.com/2025/08/26/rpgaday2025-day-26-nemesis-how-to-punish-a-pc/

#HouseRules, #RPG, #RPGaDAY2025, #Ttrpg

Nemesis is the topic for Day 26 of the #RPGaDAY2025 Challenge and I talk about #StarTrek #TTRPG homebrewing by fans. #RPGaDAY

RPGaDAY2025 Day 26: Nemesis – TardisCaptain's Blog of Holding
https://tardiscaptain.com/2025/08/26/rpgaday2025-day-26-nemesis/

#RPGaDay2025 Day 26 - Nemesis
I don't often go in for a singular Big Bad, I mostly prefer threats to come from the situation (being trapped in a mysterious town) or a larger enemy (a neighbouring country threatening to invade.) That said, the last nemesis to feature in a campaign was an unkillable assassin who simply resurrected at the graveyard each time he was slain. 1/2 #ttrpg

I talk about my #TTRPG challenges for Day 25 of the #RPGaDAY2025 Challenge and how you helped me get through them. #RPGaDAY

RPGaDAY2025 Day 25: Challenge – TardisCaptain's Blog of Holding
https://tardiscaptain.com/2025/08/25/rpgaday2025-day-25-challenge/

I talk about my #TTRPG challenges for Day 25 of the #RPGaDAY2025 Challenge and how you helped me get through them. #RPGaDAY

RPGaDAY2025 Day 25: Challenge – TardisCaptain's Blog of Holding
https://tardiscaptain.com/2025/08/25/rpgaday2025-day-25-challenge/

#RPGaDay2025 Day 25 - Challenge
The challenge, as always, is to spend more hours per year playing games than making or planning them.
One of these years, I'll do it. #ttrpg

#RPGaDay2025 Day 25 - Challenge
The challenge, as always, is to spend more hours per year playing games than making or planning them.
One of these years, I'll do it. #ttrpg

#TTRPG #RPGaDay2025 #experience

It's been a long month, but RPG A Day is over, at least for me. We end it with a philosophical consideration of multiple ways to approach experience and why.

https://grimtokens.garden/Articles/RPG+a+Day/2025/Day+29+-+Connect,+Day+30+-+Experience,+Day+31+-+Reward

#RPGaDay2025 Day 24: Reveal

Slowly reveal the big bad with rumors and conflicts with their minions. Minimize contact with the PCs to delay proactive actions like attacking the big bad as soon as they show up. Their gloating speeches can be done remotely.

#RPGaDay #ttrpg #ttrpgs

#RPGaDay2025 Day 24 - Reveal
A little bit of theatre with index cards in games: use them to track threats by writing what the threat is and putting a countdown clock on it, but prepare your cards in advance, so when that threat counts down to zero, you just flip the card over to reveal the next layer of threat. It's like having a second stage of a boss fight! #ttrpg

#TTRPG #RPGaDay2025 #writing

Another triptych of articles as I move toward DragonCon today. It's all about narrative theory and execution, whether it be regarding your nemesis, what the true purpose of tactics at the table is, and how to keep someone in suspense and why.

https://grimtokens.garden/Articles/RPG+a+Day/2025/Day+26+-+Nemesis%2C+Day+27+-+Tactic%2C+Day+28+-+Suspense

Day 23 of the #RPGaDAY2025 Challenge and I talk about a recent #anime #TTRPG one-shot that I had a chance to try out. #RPGaDAY

RPGaDAY2025 Day 23: Recent – TardisCaptain's Blog of Holding
https://tardiscaptain.com/2025/08/23/rpgaday2025-day-23-recent/

#RPGaDay2025 Day 23: Recent

Recent games: Our group is dipping our toes into Tachyon Squadron for Fate Core. We're taking a break from "Nostalgia Tour" - an Old School Essentials campaign that's all classic D&D/AD&D modules. What's next? Still in the idea stage.

#RPGaDay #ttrpg #ttrpgs

#RPGaDay2025 Day 23 - Recent
How's this for recent: Overpowered, a post-apocalyptic game where small survivor communities are defended by superhumans, the only ones who can fight the kaijus which roam the Earth. It's so recent I haven't written a word of it yet, I only had the idea last night! #ttrpg

#TTRPG #RPGaDay2025 #starforged #coriolis

By necessity, I have to pick up the pace. We'll fold three articles into one today, targeting recent acquisitions, a revelation of gifts, and exactly what is a challenge rank supposed to do?

https://grimtokens.garden/Articles/RPG+a+Day/2025/Day+23+-+Recent%2C+Day+24+-+Reveal%2C+Day+25+-+Challenge

RPGaDAY2025 - Day 17 - Renew - Enter the Carousel

I made a very, very rough Logan's Run RPG

https://polyhedralnonsense.com/2025/08/18/rpgaday2025-day-17-renew-enter-the-carousel/

#CepheusEngine, #LogansRun, #QuantumEngine, #RPG, #RPGaDAY2025, #Sci-Fi, #Settings, #Ttrpg

#TTRPG #RPGaDay2025 #tournaments

Sometimes the path to victory is long, and you must pass through many challenges. Let's talk about the tournament arc in RPGs.

https://grimtokens.garden/Articles/RPG+a+Day/2025/Day+12+-+Path

#TTRPG #RPGaDay2025 #tournaments

Sometimes the path to victory is long, and you must pass through many challenges. Let's talk about the tournament arc in RPGs.

https://grimtokens.garden/Articles/RPG+a+Day/2025/Day+12+-+Path

#rpgaday2025 Day 2 PROMPT. Prompts can make or break my #JournalingGame or #solo #TTRPG sessions. Using Ken Wickham's ABS12 Flexible Solo Game Engine with GeekGamers' Solo Gamemaster's Guide to provide advice on how to use prompts effectively has been a revelation.

#RPGaDay

#rpgaday2025 Day 2 PROMPT. Prompts can make or break my #JournalingGame or #solo #TTRPG sessions. Using Ken Wickham's ABS12 Flexible Solo Game Engine with GeekGamers' Solo Gamemaster's Guide to provide advice on how to use prompts effectively has been a revelation.

#RPGaDay