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 C.L. Moore’s Northwest of Earth collection—featuring her iconic space-faring rogue Northwest Smith—blends planetary romance, cosmic horror, dark decadence, and raygun pulp. In Moore’s 1930s Solar System, Mars is a dry wasteland of ancient dead gods, Venus is a sultry jungle ringed with sinister matriarchal fortresses, and Jupiter’s moons hide ethereal siren-entities. This picks rightNeedleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11243274667834930867noreply@blogger.com0

Art by Jeff Easley
A lot has been written about the "Myth of the Frontier" underpinnings of D&D, and the games perhaps greater homology to Westerns than traditional fantasy in many ways. Interestingly, despite that clear element of the game's core assumptions, when we look at published D&D settings, we don't really see a frontier and expansion setup.

The implied setting of D&D, as a number of writers have pointed out, can also be said to be post-apocalyptic. That often conjures images of science fantasy writers from Appendix N, but of applies to in the literal sense if not the generic sense to the Hyborian Age of Conan and the 3rd Age of Middle Earth. Materially greater and in some ways more advanced civilizations must precede the current one for there to be so much wealth and magic to be looted in old ruins.

A post-apocalyptic setting allows the frontier to be closer at hand, and indeed really sort of obscures it even being a frontier, as no discernable border but instead the distance between "civilized points." Connecting these dots seems more reclamation than expansion.

That works, but in D&D settings like Greyhawk, Krynn, and the Forgotten Realms, the apocalypse is remote enough so that the current civilization doesn't seem post-apocalyptic, at least no more than the High Middle Ages seems to us recovering from the fall of Rome.

Yet, Greyhawk, for all its map full of named regions, heraldry, and rulers with elaborate titles, is really empty. Some of this exists to facilitate the desired game play, sure, but that's the Doylist explanation. I like the more Watsonian explanations of humanoid and demihuman groups that are not adequately censused coupled with events that have led to a decline in population.

As Chris Kutalik and other commentors suggested in his blog series of years ago, I think Greyhawk is best analogized not to some science fantasy post-apocalypse but to historical eras like the "Dark Ages" (or early Middle Ages) after the collapse of Rome, or the plague, famine and war riven period of the Crisis of the Late Middle Ages.

In many ways, I think, Greyhawk reads better as a setting where the apocalypse (or at least an apocalypse) is not the remote past but happening now or relatively recently. This isn't so much a total destruction kind of apocalypse but a "civilization is dealt a blow" sort of one. This allows for the breadth and complexity of social structures described in Greyhawk, but also for the population numbers and available real estate for enterprising adventures to carve out something for themselves. 

It's "points of light" to use the modern descriptor, but not (like so many of those settings) a rather static period, but one where there are still roving bands of invaders (humanoids, monsters, or armies of other human nations) and isolated communities that must either grow larger and more resilient or be wiped out. I should add, There's no one way the communities have approach this problem to survive. Orcs settling down to live in some sort of peace is potentially just as possible as driving them out and killing them.

I think this sort of implied framing could be fun to lean into. D&D settings need more Random Calamitous Event Tables and societies in flux (like we see in some epic fantasy like A Song of Ice and Fire). Christopher Buehlman's historical horror novel Between Two Fires and his fantasy series beginning with the Blacktongue Thief where human civilization is still dealing with the fallout from a disastrous (and still simmering) war with goblinkind are great inspirations, as well.

 Here is a d100 Wilderness Random Encounter Table tailored specifically for a Sword & Sorcery campaign using Castles & Crusades. This blog post picks right up from OSR Sword & Sorcery Adventure Fodder - d100 Treasure Table tailored for the Tower of the Serpent Horde, fully compatible with Castles & Crusades (and most classic OSR systems)In true Sword & Sorcery Needleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11243274667834930867noreply@blogger.com0

Welcome to Day 3 of #RPGaDay2026. As I explained in my Day 0 post, I’ll be creating NPCs based on the day’s prompts and the week and day modifiers presented in the infographic below.  Check out that post for further details.

Today’s combination: Poise (Prompt) + Intellect (Weekly Modifier) + Fair of Face (Weekly Modifier) + Cyberpunk (Genre)

Here is today’s NPC.

Alecia “Nova” Seins (Fantasy Name Generator used for the name: Cyberpunk (nick)name generator)

There are endless rumors about Nova’s origins, but they all contradict each other. Whoever she was before breaking into the city’s entertainment scene is practically unverifiable. Only her birth name, Alecia Seins, and the fact that she was born in the broken-down rural wastes of the interior could be gleaned from a leaked detention bulletin once shared on the Net. While her history has been scrubbed extensively, those two facts remain.

She originally represented small-time acts for corporate interests but soon branched off as an independent producer, making a name for herself in unsanctioned taverns and underground dance halls. In these dangerous circles—often controlled by the Yakuza—she held her own. Always unfazed and projecting absolute poise, her sharp intellect and quick wits kept her safe. She quickly built a network of contacts throughout the city’s unofficial circles, turning the information she gathered into her primary currency.

Today, Nova still represents some of the most famous non-corporate up-and-comers, holding court at her eponymous dance hall. There, she highlights the cream of the underground crop, some of whom have even managed to cross over and become corp-stars. She is known just as much for her cunning as her looks. While her true age is a closely guarded secret, she appears far younger than she should; she is undeniably fair of face, though her beauty is heavily augmented by surgical enhancements, some of which are rumored to be far deadlier than mere cosmetic upgrades.

Renowned for her unmatched business intellect, Nova now serves as a premier information broker, go-between, and trusted contact across the neon-lit underworld.

Thanks for reading; I am looking forward to your RPG a Day 2026 post, comments, and conversation. If you want further information about #RPGaDay2026, be sure to check out Autocratik’s blog.

A Spanish version of this post is available at the Desde la Fosa Facebook page.

See you all tomorrow!

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 In Decaying Orbit—the atmospheric sci-fi horror tabletop RPG focused on exploring a doomed orbital facility and uncovering lost memories—The Red Room serves as one of the station’s most ominous, high-tension focal points. This blog post picks right up North West of Earth By C.L. Moore - Orbital Decay (MicroRed version) From The Red Room & The New Flesh Rpg - Expanding The Needleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11243274667834930867noreply@blogger.com0

Covers and details for Big Finish’s grand finale for Doctor Who: Circuit Breaker are here

 

Circuit Breaker, this year’s Doctor Who multimedia epic, continues throughout August and September. The various chapters are standalone adventures while also building into one huge storyline. By the end, it will have wound its way through Titan Comics, Doctor Who Magazine, BBC Audiobooks, East Side Games, and books from Puffin and Penguin Random House. The grand finale, however, will play out in audio releases from Big Finish. Covers and details of those two audio releases are now available.

Big Finish’s contributions comprise the two-hour series finale, Full Circuit (a full-cast audio drama) and two Short Trips-style audiobook stories released together as Short Circuits. Both will be out in September.

Circuit Breaker sees UNIT recruit the Fugitive Doctor to help with a major crisis. Objects from throughout the Time Lord’s history have mysteriously appeared in UNIT’s Black Archive. Each radiates the same strange energy which threatens to tear time and space apart over the skies of London. The Fugitive is the only one who can return them to their proper place. But the danger may be more linked to her own past with Division than anyone realizes…

The cast of Full Circuit includes Jo Martin as the Fugitive Doctor, Ingrid Oliver as Osgood, Jemma Redgrave as Kate Lethbridge-Stewart, Omari Douglas as Andrew, and Dan Starkey. You can also expect more casting news closer to the release date. Dan Starkey also reads both stories in Short Circuits.

 

“It all pays off at UNIT Tower, facing a massive threat to the planet, and only they can stop it!”

Robert Valentine, writer of Full Circuit, said: “I was thrilled to write the climactic episode of the Circuit Breaker saga, and it was quite the responsibility. The Doctor, Osgood and Andrew have been on this perilous journey together, and it all pays off at UNIT Tower, where Kate Lethbridge-Stewart is facing a massive threat to the safety of the planet, and only they can stop it.

“It was also huge fun pairing the Fugitive Doctor with Osgood and Kate, because Jo Martin’s Doctor is an irreverent, no-nonsense incarnation with no sentimental baggage about her UNIT allies, so her Doctor can say things to them that no other version of the Doctor could. And that was a blast to write!”

Valentine also script edited Short Circuits, about which he said: “What I love about the two Short Circuits stories is the sidelights they cast on the two main Circuit Breaker characters brand-new to Doctor Who – the formidable villain known as the Conductor, and Osgood’s gifted assistant, Andrew Turner – and the extra depths they give them.”

 

 

Full Circuit by Robert Valentine:

The Doctor, Osgood and Andrew are joined by Kate Lethbridge Stewart. A final mysterious object is manifesting, this one at the pinnacle of UNIT Tower itself.

A Time Bomb! Which threatens a dark future for all of the Doctor’s incarnations.

Only this Doctor can save herself – and her other selves – from this intricately woven scheme.

 

Doctor Who: Short Circuits. Cover by Soundsmyth Creative (c) Big Finish Short Circuits contains these two short stories: Battleships by Alex Hewitt

Meet the Conductor. This cadaverous specimen is a peerless tactical genius. But life is hard for a man who stands out from his fellows, and this formidable mastermind must outwit certain rivals before setting his sights on his true enemy.

Get Rich or Die Trying by Alex Hewitt, from a story by Natasha Siegel

Meet Andrew – a young man with a good job and a mysterious benefactor. Following a coded message to the Jurassic Coast, where a team of palaeontologists are digging up a dinosaur skeleton, Andrew encounters a stranger who gives him a so-called time-travel device. Before he knows what’s happened, Andrew is plunged back through history, all the way to the Jurassic Period itself. Why has he been sent here?

Who is his anonymous benefactor? And is he the victim of a sinister experiment? Only time will tell…

 

Doctor Who – Circuit Breaker: Full Circuit is now available to pre-order for just £13.99 (download to own) or £21.99 (download to own + collector’s edition CD), exclusively from the Big Finish website. And, Doctor Who – Circuit Breaker: Short Circuits is now available to pre-order as a download to own for £11.99.  

Plus, a multi-buy bundle of both releases is available for £23 (download to own) or £31 (download to own + Full Circuit collector’s edition CD). 

 

 

Doctor Who: Circuit Breaker #2. Art by Jay Anacleto (c) Titan Comics Circuit Breaker continues with Dawn of the Daleks, from Titan Comics on the 4th of August

 

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I’m writing this in the last minutes at my desk before I pack it all in and leave on the Rally. It’s dark and quiet in the house, but I can hear Ken getting dressed upstairs, getting ready for whatever the day brings us. Yesterday was packing day. It’s the day when we organize all of the things we’ll need to camp and cycle our way across Ontario and into Quebec, more than 600km all the way to Montreal. You get two bins, and you can put anything in them you like. I like to split it up – all my camping things in one bin – my tent, my sleeping pad, my blanket and the stupid camping pillow I bring every year because I suppose I’d rather use that than haul a full size one. (Apparently, since I do it every year.) The other bin gets clothes, cycling stuff, toiletries – and I presume that it is where everyone on the rally puts their yarn and needles.

I am not 100% sure, but I think that is a picture of everyone who has yarn in their bins on the rally this year. I love everyone in that snap, and not (just) because they are knitters. I was watching them all pack up yesterday – putting things in bins, hugging and laughing together, already the tight little knot that we’ll be all week and it struck me that what I love best about them is how committed this team is to taking care of people, both each other and the world they live in.

The weather forecast for today is horrible. Not just bad, or a bit rainy… horrible. Cataclysmic. The worst possible cycling weather. “Special Weather Statement” kind of weather. That statement says things like “heavy rainfall” “multiple thunderstorms” “flooding.” There is every possibility that we will be riding 122km tomorrow in nothing but rain, from the minute we gather to depart, all through the day until a bunch of exhausted, wet, dirty people have to set up tents in a deluge, and then lie in it all night.

We are all hoping this doesn’t happen. Sometimes the forecasts are wrong, sometimes storms just miss towns or cities or groups of cyclists. Right this minute there is only a drizzle. Here in Ontario sometimes these epics are swept out over our great lake to make crashing waves and dramatic scenes and not at all dump on people on bikes and we have our fingers crossed for that. We all spent yesterday trying to laugh it off and not worry about while simultaneously checking the weather for here (Toronto) and where we’re cycling too (Port Hope) to see if maybe it had improved. (No luck yet. Feel free to continuously check the weather as many times as you like too – more people worrying about it can only help manifest the skies we want. If you want to try this, think “tailwind” as well.)

We did something else yesterday – I watched all of Team Knit quietly decide, one by one, that we will double down on caring for each other. The longer we were there the nicer we all got. The Rally is hard, we are always sweet to each other on the road, finding extra kind words, getting someone a coffee, waiting for them so they’re not alone – these gestures are what our backbones are made of out there. All of our success is built on helping each other through it, doing your best to lift someone else knowing that they will lift you, and this exceptional difficulty calls for exceptional kindnesses. I saw as each member of our little pod decided that the way they would find their way through this would be by floating someone else. It works, and it is so lovely when it does.

It is the way the Rally is too, a couple of hundred people all working together deciding that helping someone else is so often the best way to help yourself- whether it’s helping someone change a flat, or deciding that you will use some of your time each year to fundraise and ride through a tsunami to change the lives of grownups and kids with HIV/AIDS.

It works, and it better, because frankly, the weather looks like trash all week.

Team Knit would like to thank you for supporting us and helping us. We’d like you to know that when you donate you lift us up too – and that we can feel that you’re on our team. Many hands make for light work, and the tiniest donation ripples into a big help when it goes into the pile with the rest of the knitters, and we are so, so grateful that you know that and give to this cause. We are all almost at our goals thanks to you, but as always we have hopes to leave those goals in our formidable wake.

Off we go.

Welcome to Day 2 of #RPGaDay2026. As I explained in my Day 0 post, I’ll be creating NPCs based on the day’s prompts and the week and day modifiers presented in the infographic below.  Check out that post for further details.

Today’s combination: Stature (Prompt) + Drive (Weekly Modifier) + Blessed (Weekly Modifier) + Pulp & Two-Fisted Adventure (Genre)

Here is today’s NPC.

Nathaniel Morrow (Fantasy Name Generator used for the name: 20th-century English name generator)

Nathaniel Morrow was a young, renowned pilot for the Morrow Traveling Airshow. His daring abilities and his drive to be the best made him known far and wide, cementing his reputation as the preeminent aviator on the circuit. His remarkable stature among other, far older pilots was exactly why Doctor Lars Peukert reached out to him to test-fly the experimental Peukert X-71 Hyper Plane.

Boarding the aircraft at Dr. Peukert’s secret facility in Seattle, Nathaniel intended to cross the Pacific in record time. Unfortunately, the doctor’s team lost contact with him shortly after takeoff. As the silence stretched on, he was widely presumed lost at sea.

Against all odds, Nathaniel unexpectedly touched down at Pearl Harbor, shattering the speed record. The military dismissed his wild tales of where he had been, convinced the young pilot was simply blessed—surviving in such a badly damaged aircraft was nothing short of a miracle. Yet, upon returning to Dr. Peukert, Nathaniel recounted the full truth: during his flight, he had passed through a strange storm cloud and entered a wondrous, uncharted world. He had spent weeks surviving in that lost land before finally escaping back to his own reality.

Thus began Nathaniel and Dr. Peukert’s relentless drive to find the lost land beyond the storm.

Thanks for reading; I am looking forward to your RPG a Day 2026 post, comments, and conversation. If you want further information about #RPGaDay2026, be sure to check out Autocratik’s blog.

A Spanish version of this post is available at the Desde la Fosa Facebook page.

See you all tomorrow!

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 Green Martians (Tharks, Warhoons, and independent hordes) are the terror of the dry sea beds. Standing 10 to 12 feet tall with four arms, tusks, and an innately warlike culture, their encounters should range from lone honor-bound duelists to terrifying clan migrations capable of leveling a city-state. This entry picks right up from Building The Red Planet Empire - Mixing Warriors of Needleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11243274667834930867noreply@blogger.com0

By Peter Jewicz
Mellow Golem Games
"OSR"
Level 5?

This twelve page adventure uses about three pages to describe four rooms in a hag lair. It sufferers from the generic/universal curse and relies on tables for a substantial portion of the adventure. Abstracted content with little specificity to help bring it alive. 

The legend of the beast is persistent in these parts, a terrible force that dwells deep in the swamp and strikes fear into the hearts of those who live nearby. Little do they know, the beast is but a pawn, for something far more sinister lurks within the bowls of the swamp.

Ah, the generic/universal adventure. They seldom fail to not disappoint, even when statted for “OSR”, as this one is. There is something about them that makes a designer seemingly fearful of providing anything concrete to it. The designer wanted an adventure in which the party shows up to a village on the edge of a swamp. Fearful and superstitious locals. Talk of The Beast, everywhere, the cause of all ills. And then a journey through a swamp, full of dread, before finally arriving at the beasts lair, only to find out Muhahahahaha! The beast is the pet of a swamp hag! 

Instead, we get little of that.

Adventure writing can be hard. As a designer you have to get out of your head what you are imagining and get that down on paper so that when someone reads it they can get close to what you intended. We get what the designer wanted here because they out right tell us “To get the full effect for this mini-adventure, make sure to play up the townsfolk’s fear of the beast.” That is, in principle, great! You want a town that seems immersive to that point. The adventure designer needs to help bring that about. This doesn’t do that. The village is quite minimal, just one line or so about the town being on stilts and moldy. That’s fine, but, what isn’t fine is the lack of the The Best present in their ramblings. Or any rambling at all. We might look to the rumors table, but all we get is abstracted information like “1 The swamp has been especially active lately.” or that the swamp spirits are angry. There’s nothing much here at all about The Beast. I love that it’s called The Beast, but there’s nothing more. None of its misdeeds or lame calves or anything. The designer needs to bring an adventure alive through specificity for things like this. Yes, the DMs job is to run with it and expand on it but you have to give them SOMETHING to work with. 

Then we get to the swamp. This also is abstracted away. Just roll on a page full of random tables. “3 A large depression that collects rainwater.” or a smell that “A salty taste, similar to being near an ocean.”  That’s what you have to work with here; it’s totally abstracted away. There IS an encounter table, or single line entries or so, and it does show some decent things in it. “A series of stick figures are attached to the trees. Until they are destroyed, those traversing this area of the swamp walk in circles always arriving back at the figures.” That’s creepy as all fuck. And it deserves more than a line on a d12 encounter table. The swamp needed to be fixed encounters, or a pointcrawl or something, with the entries worked to bring them to life. 

The lair, proper, is four rooms. You get The Beast room, a Catoblepas, and then a potion room. In the potion room you get told EXPLICITLY how to make a potion, by a journal, that gets you through a bramble corridor. Then you hit, surprise, Lareth the Beautiful! Err a swamp hag. No hints of a hag up to this point at all. It’s all wasted. 

Make the town afraid. Make the swamp a real area and bring life to the best of the encounters on the table. Hint at creepy things to foreshadow the hag. 

Tables ruin adventures. Yes, old school uses tables and randomness, but not to create the entire adventure from. 

This is $2 at DriveThru. The preview is four pages. You get to see the “village” and the “swamp”, or at least the dressing for it. The preview should have shown a bit more of the adventure, a lair page, for example. 

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/571424/lair-of-the-swamp-beast?1892600

Welcome to Day 1 of #RPGaDay2026. As I explained in my Day 0 post, I’ll be creating NPCs based on the day’s prompts and the week and day modifiers presented in the infographic below.  Check out that post for further details.

Today’s combination: Discipline (Prompt) + Drive (Weekly Modifier) + Works Hard (Weekly Modifier) + Fantasy (Genre)

Here is today’s NPC.

Antonia One Eye (Fantasy Name Generator used for the name: Bandits)

Antonia was born into poverty in Karral, a major metropolis in the southern trade routes, where the imperial ways meet the Thunsen River. Living as an urchin and pickpocket in the bustling streets, she lost her left eye, leaving a terrible scar, after stealing from a powerful crime lord, the heir of the elder Thief Lord.

Banished from the city by the Beggar Master, Antonia was forced to survive among the outlaw bands in the hills outside the city. Despite the hardships and cruelties she faced, Antonia was driven by a thirst for vindication and revenge, quickly rising to leadership among the brigands.

Other bands would raid caravans, spend their coin wantonly, and engage in internecine infighting. Antonia’s crew was disciplined, recruiting the most skillful warriors and cunning spotters. They carried out the most daring heist with the greatest rewards.

Antonia One Eye became known as Queen of the Bandit Hills.

The One Eye’s crew carried out the daring attack that captured the new Thief Prince, ransomed him to The Brotherhood of Shadows for a fortune, and the head of the old Beggar Master.

Known for her tenacity and diligence, none of her crew were ever found despite the Thief Prince hunt and bounties. Rumors insist Antonia sails a pleasure barge down the canals of the delta of exotic and ancient Nefatara.

Thanks for reading; I am looking forward to your RPG a Day 2026 post, comments, and conversation. If you want further information about #RPGaDay2026, be sure to check out Autocratik’s blog.

A Spanish version of this post is available at the Desde la Fosa Facebook page.

See you all tomorrow!

 Here is a full d100 Treasure Table tailored for the Tower of the Serpent Horde, fully compatible with Castles & Crusades (and most classic OSR systems). This post picks right up from A d100 Abomination and Undead Sword & Sorcery Random Encounter Table for Castles & Crusades rpgIn true Sword & Sorcery fashion, the hoard favors ancient relics, dark alchemical compounds, Needleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11243274667834930867noreply@blogger.com0

Another way of recasting different groups of elves I've thought about is to draw inspiration from the wuxia tradition with its various kung-fu sects/schools/cults. Wikipedia has a nice (though I'm sure incomplete) list by author of these.

Though, I'm not opposed to kung-fu elves, mind you, perhaps in the case of elves, these would be based around a particular school or style of magic? They could be based on the elements or maybe the Classical Planets. They would presumably each be centered in a particular locale, probably remote from wider civilization.

Using this approach, different types of elves would have less physical or temperamental differences, but perhaps more philosophical ones. There might be rivalries between them. Since it's not an ethnicity but an allegiance, elves could move from one to the other, though perhaps not without some penalty.

I think this approach also has the benefit of making elven subtypes less background and more factions to interact with in gameplay.

Hello everyone! Welcome back to the yearly tradition of RPG a Day, this time for 2026.

Quick recap for the uninitiated:

RPG a Day is a social media event started by David F. Chapman (aka Autocratik) that has been going on for the past 13 years. The purpose of the event is to celebrate all the positive aspects of tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs) by sharing our experiences, ideas, and creations via social media posts, videos, blog entries, or other creative endeavors. If you decide to participate, there is a series of daily prompts to spark your creativity and encourage discussion. Tag your content with the hashtag #RPGaDay2026 so everyone can follow along!

You can find the prompts at Autocratik’s blog. He also partners with Anthony Boyd (aka Runeslinger), whose blog Casting Shadows also features the prompts along with an alternative set of questions you can use.

I’m reproducing this year’s infographic with the prompts and instructions below.

Okay, with that out of the way: what are my plans for this year?

The infographic mentions that this year can be approached as a character creation challenge, and I’m taking up that challenge. I hope to create 31 short NPC descriptions, aiming for two to four paragraphs each. We’ll see how well I manage to stick to that goal!

To set things up, I took the daily prompt. I combined it with the weekly modifiers (on the left side of the calendar) and the daily modifiers (at the bottom of the calendar), which are based on the Monday’s Child nursery rhyme—a poem I didn’t know until I saw the reference on the infographic. Together, these three elements give me the theme and motivation for each NPC.

To determine the genre for each character, I created this little random table to roll on:

Die RollGenre1Fantasy2Science Fiction & Space Opera3Cyberpunk4Superheroes5Pulp & Two-Fisted Adventure6Horror (Cosmic & Personal)7Post-Apocalyptic8Western

After rolling 31 times, here is the master list I’ll be working with throughout August:

DayPromptModifier 1 (Week)Modifier 2 (Weekday)Genre1DisciplineDriveWorks HardFantasy2StatureDriveBlessedPulp & Two-Fisted Adventure3PoiseIntellectFair of FaceCyberpunk4CharmIntellectFull of GraceHorror (Cosmic & Personal)5BurdenIntellectFull of WoeFantasy6ReachIntellectFar to GoScience Fiction & Space Opera7MercyIntellectLoving & GivingWestern8ResolveIntellectWorks HardCyberpunk9PrivilegeIntellectBlessedPost-Apocalyptic10SecretAssociatesFair of FaceSuperheroes11TactAssociatesFull of GraceFantasy12LossAssociatesFull of WoeHorror (Cosmic & Personal)13StrainAssociatesFar to GoPulp & Two-Fisted Adventure14RegardAssociatesLoving & GivingScience Fiction & Space Opera15EnduranceAssociatesWorks HardWestern16ComposureAssociatesBlessedPost-Apocalyptic17IntensityInstinctFair of FaceSuperheroes18DirectnessInstinctFull of GraceCyberpunk19DesireInstinctFull of WoeFantasy20PromiseInstinctFar to GoHorror (Cosmic & Personal)21CharityInstinctLoving & GivingScience Fiction & Space Opera22GritInstinctWorks HardPulp & Two-Fisted Adventure23FortuneInstinctBlessedPost-Apocalyptic24DistanceEmotionFair of FaceWestern25FamiliarityEmotionFull of GraceFantasy26RegretEmotionFull of WoeSuperheroes27HungerEmotionFar to GoHorror (Cosmic & Personal)28DevotionEmotionLoving & GivingCyberpunk29LabourEmotionWorks HardScience Fiction & Space Opera30PrideEmotionBlessedPulp & Two-Fisted Adventure31EdgeAbilityFair of FacePost-Apocalyptic

I don’t think I can invent 31 completely original names on top of everything else, so I’ll be using Fantasy Name Generator to help generate them.

These NPCs will be posted right here on the blog and shared across my socials: Instagram, Threads, Bluesky, and Sunglar’s Musings on Facebook. I also plan to post a Spanish version of each NPC over at Desde la Fosa.

These are the prompts in Spanish in case you want to participate in your language:

This will run alongside my regular schedule of movie and video game inspiration posts, my Saturday Recommendations on Sunglar’s Musings, and hopefully Sunday interviews here on the blog.

That is an ambitious schedule, and something might fall through the cracks along the way, but I’m going all in! We’ll take stock of how I did by the end of August.

I hope you join us on this adventure for August 2026. Don’t forget to tag your posts with the #RPGaDay2026 hashtag. The RPG a Day community on Facebook is also a great hub for sharing posts and interacting with other participants. Whether you complete all 31 days or pop in for one, join us to celebrate the positives of this great community.

See you tomorrow!

 Adapting Vampire Hunter D into the Cepheus Engine (a 2D6 2D6-based open-tabletop sci-fi RPG system) is a natural fit. Hideyuki Kikuchi’s world combines far-future post-apocalyptic technology, bio-engineering, cybernetics, and gothic horror—the exact intersection of Cepheus Engine’s high-tech sci-fi rules and grit.

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 Created by famed German author Karl May in the late 19th century, Old Shatterhand (the alter-ego of Karl, a German surveyor turned wild-west legend) is one of the most famous European pulp heroes of all time. Known for his superhuman punching power—capable of knocking out a man or a horse with a single blow to the temple (hence his name)—he is a polymath, master marksman, tracker, and a Needleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11243274667834930867noreply@blogger.com0