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#RPGaDAY2025 DAY 23: RECENT
This is the twenty-third day of #RPGaDAY2025 and today the prompt is recent. In our most recent prompt response, we looked at the word ally and examined it in terms of the villainous villains with their vile villainy, while also taking the time to praise the participants of this event who have been taking the time not just to compose their own responses, but share those of others, too. As we close in on the last week of RPGaDAY for 2025, I think that is worth pointing out at least twice.
#RPGaDAY2025 DAY 22: ALLY
This is the twenty-second day of #RPGaDAY2025 and today the prompt is ally. There are only 9 days left in this year’s event, after today. For me, it has gone quite quickly and I have enjoyed a lot of the posts I have found out there in the wilds of the Internet every day. It is hard to complete a 31-day challenge, but lots of people are doing it this year, Dear Reader. More importantly, I have been very pleased with how much sharing of other people’s posts has been going on. That is fantastic and in a real sense makes each participant the ally of the others in the key point of RPGaDAY: spreading positivity about the games we play.
#RPGaDAY2025 DAY 21: UNEXPECTED
This is the twenty-first day of #RPGaDAY2025 and today the prompt that leaps on us from surprise on the shelf is the word unexpected. The more experienced a group becomes, the less common it can be to encounter the unexpected. Often a group moves over time from a harmonious unity between character and player surprise toward a conscious handling of what the player knows versus what the character does. It can affect satisfaction. When we are planning pitch that we hope will lead to long-term, open-ended play, this is a detail we should consider.
#RPGaDAY2025 DAY 20: ENTER
This is the twentieth day of #RPGaDAY2025 and today the prompt on the shelf is the word enter. It wants to know what is in our hearts – and how it got there.
#RPGaDAY2025 DAY 19: DESTINY
This is the nineteenth day of #RPGaDAY2025 and our prompt today is destiny. I like the idea of destiny, especially as an in-character notion that comes up in conversation in play~
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