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An Engaging RPG Community
Igroteka One Saturday morning in the early nineties I took some miniatures to my brother’s friends. A few minutes later a man I had never seen before asked me if I ever played and would I like to join them. 4d6 fell on the table before I even realised what was going one. Somehow in…
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Quick to Learn
A deceptively simple question for day sixteen of RPG a Day 2024. My first response would be to list a few games with rules that are easy to pickup. But I don’t think that is the best approach for the heart of the matter. What interests me with this prompt is which games teach you…
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Great Character Gear
Half way through the RPG a Day 2024 we go to great character gear. It had me standing cold. What do i write about gear in an RPG? I haven’t cared about gear in decades. But actually I have, just not in the way AD&D thought me to think of gear. What I don’t care…
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Compelling Characters
Today is running out on me and a lot of things are swirling in my head. Lots of approaches, and most I am not sure how to express. So a series of short meta stories about characters. The Character Arc Some years ago we finished a session of Rhapsody of Blood and I was driving…
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Evocative Environments
Once again we get a prompt opened to many interesting interpretations. What is an evocative environment? A place where we choose to game? Is it a location within a game itself? Or maybe the totality of the world our character inhabit? I decided to focus on the settings that shaped my gaming life. Epitome Settings…
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RPG With Well Supported Campaigns
Today’s prompt about RPG’s with well supported campaigns can be read in two different ways. Either we are talking about games that support campaign play really well, or we are talking about games with well made published campaigns. So let’s tackle both! RPGs With Campaign Support It is a little ironic that my answer here…
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RPG With Well Supported One-Shots
This is an interesting one that potentially opens the question what is a one-shot? Grim Tokens already posted the daily article and looks into the definition of a one-shot. My reply is going to consider the games that fit within a few criteria. First, I’m considering only those games that are explicitly not about a…