#RPGaDay2015 - 15th - Longest Campaign Played

It's August 2015, and to follow on with the success of last year's #RPGaDay event, David Chapman at Autocratik has created a new list. Each day in August, I'll be posting my "answer" to that day's topic.

The longest campaign I ever played in was probably the D&D 3rd Edition game that took place over about two years. I've had other games technically go that long, but with more breaks than the D&D game, which was played pretty reliably in comparison. With my well-documented "Ooh Shiny Syndrome," it would be the one and only 3rd Edition campaign I'd complete.

#RPGaDay2015 - 14th - Favorite RPG Accessory

It's August 2015, and to follow on with the success of last year's #RPGaDay event, David Chapman at Autocratik has created a new list. Each day in August, I'll be posting my "answer" to that day's topic.

From very early on in my Savaging, I've had an accessory I've erroneously called the Benny Box. It does contain my original Savage Worlds Bennies with Smiling Jack on them, but that's not all. It also contains beads to represent conditions in Savage Worlds—amber for Shaken, red for Wounds, teal for Fatigue, and black for –2 Parry. The box is something I found at Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft back in the day.

The Original Benny Box

#RPGaDay2015 - 13th - Favorite RPG Podcast

It's August 2015, and to follow on with the success of last year's #RPGaDay event, David Chapman at Autocratik has created a new list. Each day in August, I'll be posting my "answer" to that day's topic.

In the last couple years, I've gotten into the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG. This led me to an amazing podcast. It's well produced and well hosted, and it's been a great asset in learning more about the game and the community. Check out Spellburn. You won't be disappointed.

#RPGaDay2015 - 12th - Favorite RPG Illustration

It's August 2015, and to follow on with the success of last year's #RPGaDay event, David Chapman at Autocratik has created a new list. Each day in August, I'll be posting my "answer" to that day's topic.

There have been a lot of iconic RPG illustrations over the years, but the one that came to mind first for me was the wraparound cover image for Hollow Earth Expedition. It just evokes everything the game is about. I'd love a print for the wall. Take a look:

#RPGaDay2015 - 11th - Favorite RPG Writer

It's August 2015, and to follow on with the success of last year's #RPGaDay event, David Chapman at Autocratik has created a new list. Each day in August, I'll be posting my "answer" to that day's topic.

This is the toughest question of the month. I had to actually have a conversation with my wife about this one. I started out with five names, and at the end of the conversation, I was only able to narrow it down to three: Shane Hensley, Steve Kenson, and Harley Stroh.

Shane created two of my all-time favorite RPG things, Savage Worlds and Deadlands. He also did a great version of Lankhmar and worked on my favorite D&D setting, Dark Sun, back in the days of TSR. If Shane writes it, I'll buy it.

Steve Kenson wrote what was arguably the first true "next generation" D20 System game, in Mutants & Masterminds. It was also the first supers RPG to rival the classic Champions. More recently he wrote my current favorite supers RPG, Icons.

Harley Stroh is a beautiful, sick and twisted, genius. As one of the key writers for the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG, his adventures are consistently the most interesting and entertaining, even to read, let alone run or play. Check out Peril on the Purple Planet, it's pretty great stuff.

#RPGaDay2015 - 10th - Favorite RPG Publisher

It's August 2015, and to follow on with the success of last year's #RPGaDay event, David Chapman at Autocratik has created a new list. Each day in August, I'll be posting my "answer" to that day's topic.

I have to assume anyone who knows me could guess this one. Pinnacle Entertainment is not only the publisher of my favorite game system, but honestly it's filled with the highest concentration of the people in the game industry who I call "friend." In addition to all that, though, they are exemplars of how any company—in any industry—should treat the people who pay their bills, their customers.

I'll tell a fun story: A long time ago, I bought some Deadlands books from Pinnacle when they were clearing them out. In fact, I believe Shane was shipping them out of his garage back East at the time. I didn't know him yet, so I can't be sure. There was a mistake in my order. I don't remember the details, but I do remember that for my trouble, Shane threw in an extra set of bennies (I was buying one set already). These were the original Smiling Jack glass bennies, and I still use them at most of my games to this day.

#RPGaDay2015 - 9th - Favorite Media You Wish Was An RPG

It's August 2015, and to follow on with the success of last year's #RPGaDay event, David Chapman at Autocratik has created a new list. Each day in August, I'll be posting my "answer" to that day's topic.

Fell behind again... Real life stuff for the win. 

There is so much crossover these days between RPGs and pretty much every other type of media, this one is tougher than I thought when I first glanced over the topic last month. The answer forces me to call myself out.

Back in 2009, I was re-watching the Doctor Strange animated movie. It was a good movie, as far as I'm concerned—good enough to re-watch, for sure. On my re-watch, I got inspired by the first six minutes. Seriously go watch it if you can. I wanted that RPG. I wanted it so much, I decided I'd create it myself. That little desire gave birth to Fuse, a Savage Worlds setting idea I've wrestled with on and off for nearly six years now. Hopefully one day, you'll get to play it.