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#RPGaDAY2025 DAY 3: TAVERN
The third day of #RPGaDAY2025 brings us to the tavern for a hot meal and a refreshing pot of tea~
#RPGaDAY2025 DAY 2: PROMPT
The second day of #RPGaDAY2025 amusingly has the word prompt as the prompt. Which meaning of prompt will be the prompt you use to inspire your post today, Dear Reader? Mine will have you building locked mausoleums~
#RPGaDAY2025 – My approach and Day 1: Patron
#RPGaDAY2025 begins! Today’s prompt is Patron and I will be taking the option of linking all 31 prompts into a continuous flow to make a campaign pitch for Leagues of Cthulhu~
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Chaosium’s Basic Roleplaying
…BRP hits a precise point where it makes a clear and resonant kind of sense. It is grounded in the experience of being human and the underpinning logic of the imaginative worlds we create. It surges with brutal magic and the even more brutal harm people can inflict upon each other – and receive in turn. It finds ways to make risk easy to run yet pleasantly agonizing to choose. It has a lot to say about who the characters we play are, yet has the room to listen to our ideas as well. It is incredibly responsive to the ongoing events of play… It has a boldness about how it limits characters to a human mold, yet expects better of them. Anyone can be a hero, the pages of BRP whisper, they just have to act…
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#RPGaDAY2025 launches on August 1st
#RPGaDAY2025 starts on August 1st and while many people take it one day at a time through the month, many of you share responses in ways that take some preparation time. Here are the prompts to get you thinking, sharing, and most of all preparing your positive posts on RPG play~
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