RPGaDay 2024: Day 31

31. Game you miss

The role-playing game I miss GMing and playing the most is Stormbringer 1st edition.

And that is the end of this year's #RPGaDay.

Be seeing you...

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RPGaDay 2024: Day 30

30. Person[s] you'd like to game with

I've answered versions of this question before, but this time, I would like to game at the Canadians' table:

• Brent Butt
• Paul Sun-Hyung Lee
• Rakhee Morzaria
• Andrew Phung
• Nancy Robertson
• Sugith Varughese

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RPGaDay 2024: Day 29

29. Awesome app

The answer to this prompt is The Crawler's Companion (for Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG and Mutant Crawl Classics RPG) from Purple Sorcerer Games. I highly recommend both the app and the HTML version.

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RPGaDay 2024: Day 28

28. Great gamer gadget

Merriam-Webster's 11th Collegiate Dictionary defines "gadget" thusly:

gadget

an often small mechanical or electronic device with a practical use but often thought of as a novelty

Based on that definition, "great gamer gadget" is clearly a dice tower. Do I use one? No. Do I think they are amusing? Yes. Would I use one if I had one? Yes, if a) it was sufficiently amusing and b) my players can't keep their dice on the table otherwise. Personally, I prefer dice trays and dice cups, but dice towers are fine, too.

I think it would be fun if there were competitions to create the most interesting dice towers—elaborate Rube Goldbergian contraptions just to roll dice. And then OK Go could incorporate the entries into a music video. It seems like the universe would want this to happen.

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RPGaDay 2024: Day 23 Revisited

23. Peerless player[s]

Previously, I asked if anyone would like to offer an alternative topic to the 23rd prompt of #RPGaDay2024, but none have been forthcoming, despite it being the most-viewed post of Applied Phantasticality this month. (Technically, I was asked if I had considered the official alternative prompt, but I found it equally uninspiring.) Well, I no longer need any suggestions. I have an answer.

Peerless players? The Aquabats. We'll sit around a table in the Battletram, set it on autopilot, and I'll run the wildest game of our lives as we drink cherry sodas and eat gas station burritos. At least until real danger strikes or someone needs our help.

Behold the Floating Eye of Death!

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RPGaDay 2024: Day 27

27. Miniatures

For war games, I prefer miniatures. For role-playing games, I prefer "theatre of the mind."

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RPGaDay 2024: Day 26

26. Superb screen

I own a four-panel, landscape-oriented, customizable GM screen with clear plastic pockets on both sides of every panel so I can slide in reference sheets or art appropriate to whatever game I am running. It's called The World's Greatest Screen from Hammerdog Games. It's nearly perfect. The World's Greatest Screen: The Half Screen (soon to be launched on Kickstarter) might be even better (and I certainly plan to get one).

Another good option is the three-panel, landcape-oriented, Savage Worlds Customizable GM screen from Pinnacle Entertainment Group.

When I was a teenager, I used the typical cardboard, three-panel, portrait-oriented screens that were produced for various role-playing games by their manufacturers. They were already too tall for my purposes, but the situation was worsened by the fact that I ran my games from a desk that was taller than the card table at which my players were seated. To overcome this lack of visibility (a problem for me as I communicate nearly as much with gestures and facial expressions as I do with speech when I GM), I tended to sit on the back of my office chair. And tilt it backwards (a habit, not a strategy). I strongly discourage both activities. Fortunately, landscape-oriented screens (and playing at the same actual table) eliminate the need for such stunts.

Buy a better screen or make one yourself. It's worth it.

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RPGaDay 2024: Day 25

25. Desirable dice

It is my desire to see binary six-sided dice become more widely available and in a greater variety of colors, styles, and materials. By "binary dice," I mean those that have an equal number of sides marked "1" or "0"—and I strongly prefer the six-sided variety (either 16 mm or 12 mm).

I have 20 binary dice in opaque white with black inking, but I have never found them in actual stores, and they are not always easy to find online. I just conducted a search on a popular retail site and the closest result I found was a set of cowrie shells "for use as binary dice." We can do better.

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RPGaDay 2024: Day 24

24. Acclaimed advice

Game design: To paraphrase, "Keep it simple, sunshine."

Refereeing: Thou shalt not railroad.

Playing: Support thy comrades and share the spotlight.

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RPGaDay 2024: Day 23

23. Peerless player

I have no use for this question. Would anyone be willing to ask me a better one?

[Edit: I found an answer.]

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