#RPGaDAY: Day 1 – Discipline (Drive; Hard Work; Rivers of London)

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Using either the pull-down menus at the top of the page, or the various means of tag and category search tools arrayed along the sides, readers can explore a still-growing collection of commentary and comments about roleplaying games and techniques for both players and adjudicators. The focus of these posts is strictly on face-to-face and … Continue reading →

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#RPGaDAY2026 Starts Tomorrow: My plan

August 1st is scheduled to arrive in a few hours and for the next 31 days, there is a lot of positivity and creativity ahead of us on the topic of roleplaying games. I hope you are looking forward to seeing and contributing to it as much as I am. Useful, actionable, relatable positivity is a choice it is often too easy to turn away from. To get the prompts or some direct and specific questions based on them, you can check this post. To watch the launch video with our explanation of the #RPGaDAY2026 event and some ideas for participating in it, you check out this link to YouTube. Now is the time to double-check that everything is in place for an enjoyable run through this month of celebration and sharing.

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#RPGaDAY2026 Volunteer Translations

If you know of other translations for the #RPGaDAY2026 prompts out there around the world, please let us know so that we can share them and thank those who took the time to make them. If you would like to get involved in translating the prompts to your language – please do!

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#RPGaDAY2026 starts August 1st

RPGaDAY is back for 2026, running through the month of August, as usual, and uniting gamers in praise of roleplaying games across social media platforms and across borders.

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Fragile Bonds, and Frightening Loyalties – Sandbaggers part 3

We have reached the third installment of this series on increasing our familiarity and flexibility with game mechanisms by watching and assessing appropriate media while thinking of them in terms of those mechanisms. In particular, this series of posts, however many it turns out to be, is looking at the cold war spy drama called … Continue reading →

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Building Bonds, Testing Trust, and Sandbaggers – oh my! Part 2

This is the second in what might become a series which uses the episodes of a beloved cold war spy series called The Sandbaggers to dig into the genre from an RPG perspective and specific mechanisms from RPGs such as Delta Green and World War Cthulhu.

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