#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.

Bonds, Trust, and Sandbaggers – Oh, my! Part 1

This is the first in what might become a series of posts about episodes of the cold war spy series The Sandbaggers and how the events and relationships in the series can highlight and give nuance to our understanding of mechanisms within great RPGs like Delta Green and World War Cthulhu: Cold War~

A Universe Parallel to the RPG Experience

Humans being humans, the way we express ourselves tends toward recognizable patterns which we can choose to hone. Looking at how an idea can be explored helps in ways that taking the idea doesn’t…

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