The Podcast- On #RPGaDAY2026 So far: Days 1-16
- #RPGaDAY2026 and some Brief Updates
- On Suspected Inspirations for the Delta Green RPG with Jason Connerley
- A friendly conversation about natural-feeling characters with SettingFirstRPG
- A Friendly Conversation on Character Social Inequality in RPGs
- A Frightfully Cheerful Conversation on Horror and Comedy
- On the idea of a "Better Game"
- On what might be in a name, and Listener Calls
- Biting the Bullet with Jason Hobbs [video]
- Biting Bullets with Jason Hobbs
Whispers in Darkness
What to expect from Casting Shadows
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#RPGaDAY: Day 23 – Fortune (Instinct; Blessed; All for One)
This is the 23rd day of #RPGaDay2026 and the 4th of 5 Sundays in the event this year. Sunday’s child gets a full allotment of good stuff according to the predictive poem of periods past, so let’s plaster this particular post with positivity like no other. Our prompt for today is Fortune. It’s another flexible prompt which can take us in different directions from luck to wealth and from past to future. This is our last day to take the idea of Instinct into consideration, and it is our final day of enjoying memories past and yet to come with All for One: Regime Diabolique.
#RPGaDAY: Day 22 – Grit (Instinct; Hard Work; All for One)
This is the 22nd day of #RPGaDay2026. This should only come as a surprise to those who are unsure of the date. Those who are synchronized with our clock and calendar bound society and have the grit to weather all the hard work it brings, will instinctually sense also that there are a mere 9 days left in this grand celebration of the unmatched greatness of roleplaying games. Hopefully, we can make the most of it. In that spirit, there is but one more day of All for One: Regime Diabolique posts to follow this one, then it will be time to switch to the next game. As old hands will have gleaned from the above, today’s prompt is Grit, the daily filter for Saturday is “works hard for their living,” and the weekly filter for the 17th through 23rd has been “Instinct.”
#RPGaDAY: Day 21 – Charity (Instinct; Kindness; All for One)
This is the 21st day of #RPGaDay2026 and today we are all Friday’s children. Can you imagine a world where that might be so – everyone ‘loving and giving’? If you are a gamer, you can. What bounds are there to your imagination and capacity to realize that imagination in play, making it feel real in the process? None, I say. This is the 21stth day of #RPGaDay2026 and today we are all Friday’s children. Can you imagine a world where that might be so – everyone ‘loving and giving’? If you are a gamer, you can. What bounds are there to your imagination and capacity to realize that imagination in play, making it feel real in the process? None, I say. Our weekly filter, the surprisingly enjoyable Instinct is still with us for a few more days. The prompt for today is tightly bound to Friday’s child, being the essence of someone ‘loving and giving’. In other words, charity.
#RPGaDAY: Day 20 – Promise (Instinct; Distance; All for One)
This is the 20th day of #RPGaDay2026 believe it or not, which leaves a meagre 11 more days to go – from a certain point of view. If we are talking about 11 days of fun and romance, that no doubt seems a little brief. If we are talking about 11 days of taunting and torture, 11 days is no doubt far outside our comfort zone. For Thursday’s child, such thoughts are normal, as they have, so the poem goes, ‘Far to Go.’ Their Instinct, I do not have to guess, is to not consider the distance, but to keep moving. Someone will be along shortly to move the goal posts. As we sail through this week, I continue to love going through All for One: Regime Diabolique for my responses. The prompt for today is helpfully ambiguous in that it might be a noun or it might be a verb – perhaps both if you are up for going twice as far.
#RPGaDAY: Day 19 – Desire (Instinct; Woe; All for One)
This is the 19th day of #RPGaDay2026 and in this week of the event I am drawing from Triple Ace Games’ All for One: Regime Diabolique for my responses. The prompt for today is familiar to many people in that it is ‘Desire,’ while the weekly and daily filter for that prompt are Instinct and Woe, respectively. Many of us are familiar with those things, too. When using a palette of supernatural intrigue, blade and bullet violence, and the great and horrible wars of an earlier age, it might seem hard at first to find something positive to say in the spirit of RPGaDAY, or at least – challenging to keep the focus in a positive place. Is there a positive place? Certainly.
Casting Shadows 