#RPGaDAY: Day 1 – Discipline (Drive; Hard Work; Rivers of London)
Here we go with my first response for #RPGaDay2026 where we will take a look at a character I enjoyed playing in the Rivers of London RPG by Chaosium. Our prompt for today is Discipline. The weekly filter is Drive, and the daily filter is Hard Working. It was this specific combination of traits which brought PC Everett Balcom to mind again, and it is the nuance in BRP which makes these special traits something to actively play with, work toward or against, and have matter.
#RPGaDAY2026 Volunteer Translations
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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.
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
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.
Casting Shadows 