Next month, August of 2026, marks 49 years that I have been in the Tabletop Roleplaying Game hobby. Next year will be 50 years, the big Five-Oh!
I'm going to start celebrating early with yet another attempt to complete the annual RPGaDay Challenge which looks...huh...actually interesting this year. Maybe even...dare I say it...truly challenging!
I skipped last year's RPGaDay because I often find blogging difficult in August for various reasons and the prompts tend to be rather uninspiring. The idea of the challenge has been, in recent years, more fascinating to me than participating in the challenge itself ever is. This year might be different, with prompts that are not so obvious or direct in their meaning, at least as they apply to RPGs.
There are some words here I can already tell I'm going to have a lot of trouble with; poise for example (Day 3) isn't a word that comes up in my vocabulary very often. I don't usually think about poise and certainly haven't said the word in recent memory. There are a few others like that but given the nature of the RPGaDay Challenge, perhaps my brain will come up with some way to interpret these term in a gaming related way once I get the started.
All in all, I definitely feel these prompts are an improvement over those of the past years.
UPDATE: Re-reading the RPGaDay home site AUTOCRATIK, it would appear that Runeslinger, who created the prompts for this years outing, suggests the words be used to create characters, making this a Character Creation Challenge instead of the usual, less 'intentioned' approach to the RPGaDay events.
This certainly makes some of the terms easier to picture but I'm not sure I want to create a month's worth of characters, given that I'm much more of the 'Forever GM' type. Also, January sees the 31 Days/31 Characters Challenge and I don't necessarily want to muscle in on that event's turf, so to speak. I'm not 100% against the idea either though.
Hmm. Tough call here. Going to have to think about this.
A heartfelt thank you to F. Douglas Wall of There's More to Oz Than The Yellow Brick Road, as it wasn't until I read his post on the subject that I realized what the original creators were going for.
Join me for this next month won't you? I can't wait to see what I decide to do!
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Barking Alien
Well good luck with that one BA. It looks like we're just doing word association this time. I think I liked the question approach better even if some of them were dumb or obtuse. I'm looking forward to seeing if you can work some magic with these.
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