#RPGaDay2015 20: Favorite Horror RPG

Last year we celebrated Autocratik’s #RPGaDay, where we spend a month celebrating RPGs, discussing what we love and what we love about them. Here are the responses of the TRF crew. Be sure to tweet, blog, or post your own with the #RPGaDay!

For August 20, What is your favorite horror RPG?
Aser: My favorite horror RPG has to be Fear Itself. There are other gumshoe contenders like Trail of Cthulhu, Esoterrorists, or Night’s Black Agents, but Fear Itself makes you face all the potential horror as normal people. Now, that’s scary.
Chuck: Weird Wars Rome for Savage Worlds
John: Call of Cthulhu, duh!
Jonn: Call of Cthulhu
Landan: Generally not a fan of horror but the closest thing was a D&D 3.5 game played at Geekly Con 2015 DM’d by Michael Lane of the Cthulhu and Friends Podcast. Either V’s creepiness rubbed off on him or she may have gotten some of it from him since he DM’d for them back in the day if I remember right when they first met. Generally dolls don’t creep me out but he had an extremely creepy doll and a creepy old man NPC.
Matt: I’m not sure an RPG is the best medium for horror. I enjoy the genre for movies, video games, books, etc., but it somehow doesn’t translate well to RPGs in my experience.
Megan: I think I like the sanity/stability mechanic in Gumshoe the best, so Trail of Cthulhu and Fear Itself.
Patrick: Haven’t played one yet, maybe soon. And I can’t qualify anything that I’ve played by White Wolf as horror. It’s is the Coke Zero of horror.
Rob: Call of Cthulhu

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#RPGaDay2015 18: Favorite SciFi RPG

Last year we celebrated Autocratik’s #RPGaDay, where we spend a month celebrating RPGs, discussing what we love and what we love about them. Here are the responses of the TRF crew. Be sure to tweet, blog, or post your own with the #RPGaDay!

For August 18, What is your favorite SciFi RPG?
Aser: My favorite sci-fi RPG is probably Eclipse Phase. That system and world are so meticulously put together and play off the early 21st Century zeitgeist so well that the game just feels fresh and cool every time you visit one of the strange little bubbles of transhumanity struggling to survive after the fall.
Chuck: The Cypher System
John: Eclipse Phase.
Jonn: Serenity/Firefly
Landan: Numenera fits this in my opinion
Matt: The Strange has been a lot of fun, and has been the only sci-fi RPG I’ve played in awhile.
Megan: The Strange. Though WH40k has a special place in my heart.
Patrick: Dresden Files, not sure if it is SF per se, but I’ll just put it here
Rob: Firefly RPG

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#RPGaDay2015 15: Longest Campaign Played

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For August 15, What is the longest campaign you’ve played?
Aser: Our current longest running campaign is Numenéra, though Pathfinder is bound to overtake it soon due to sheer regularity.
Chuck: 3 years D&D 3.5
John: PX Poker Night was the longest coherent game with the same characters.
Jonn: Longest campaign has been about 3 years. Longest game group about 4 years.
Landan: It would be the Mysteries of the Ninth World played in Numenera for TRF actually.
Matt: I ran a 4e D&D game for some buddies that went on for a long time. It was a home-brew world I had rolling around in my head for some time that I would like to take another crack at some time, just not in 4e D&D.
Megan: Mysteries of the Ninth World. It’s been running for a year and a few months, and we haven’t been able to play as consistently as we wanted, but we’ve had a ton of fun along the way.
Patrick: Rise of the Rune Lords
Rob: Firefly RPG, for The Firefly Podcast

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#RPGaDay2015 14: Favorite RPG Accessory

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For August 14, What is your favorite RPG accessory?
Aser: I have this great dice rolling octagon that Megan got me. It’s sort of the centerpiece of my physical gaming space. It possesses a great deal of sentimental value as it is yet another expression of her thoughtfulness and love.
Chuck: Roll20
John: Dropbox.
Jonn: Friends
Landan: Well for Pathfinder if you don’t do too much homebrewing I am a fan of the Hero Lab program but it can get pricey. It also works with several other RPG’s if you purchase the license to unlock it.
Matt: My iPad, for sure. It can do basically anything I need it to, from referencing books, to rolling “dice”, to storing notes, to tracking initiative, etc. It’s nice to be able to grab one thing to go gaming and be sure I’m not forgetting something important.
Megan: Dice! Aser gets them for me almost every time I visit him, and I like collecting cool ones from Kickstarter.
Patrick: The mechanical Pencil. If you don’t know why, you never will.
Rob: Those Octagonal dice boxes

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#RPGaDay2015 13: Favorite RPG Podcast

Last year we celebrated Autocratik’s #RPGaDay, where we spend a month celebrating RPGs, discussing what we love and what we love about them. Here are the responses of the TRF crew. Be sure to tweet, blog, or post your own with the #RPGaDay!

For August 13, What is your favorite RPG podcast? (Don’t worry, it wasn’t a requirement to choose TRF)
Aser: This would have to be RPPR and their actual play feed. So many of the games I love and much of what I love about gaming, I learned from Ross Payton’s gang of lovable murder hobos.
Chuck: Fandible
John: The Redacted Files! Tied for second: Miskatonic University Podcast, The Good Friends of Jackson Elias, Grim Dark Podcast.
Jonn: Cthulhu & Friends.
Landan: Omitting TRF I would have to say Firefly Podcast: Balls and Bayonets Brigade, Cthulhu and Friends, and Drunks and Dragons.
Matt: I’m going to cheat and name two (aside from TRF): One Shot and THACO. The former is another fun actual-play podcast that tends towards the silly with lots of random (and amusing) 80s and 90s pop culture references. The latter is focused on general geekery, and the crew there is fun to listen to (I’ve been listening since their Fell Calls days, totaling over 500 episodes between the two).
Megan: This is almost exclusively what I listen to. TRF of course. Firefly Podcast, Fandible, Godsfall, One Shot and Campaign, Cthulhu and Friends, and the Adventure Zone. I’ve been working to add some new ones to the list like The Leviathan Files and RPG Academy.
Patrick: Nerd Poker, Just because I’ve listened to more of it.
Rob: Cthulhu and Friends

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#RPGaDay2015 12: Favorite RPG Illustration

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For August 12, What is your favorite RPG illustration?
Aser: That thing with Cthulhu in power armor count? 😛
Chuck: Anyone doing work for Monte Cook Games
John: Maybe the PCs/NPCs from Warhammer 40K Dark Heresy 2nd Edition.
Landan: I love most the art in my RPG books but I think I will just say the Pathfinder Bestiary 1,2,3, and 4. It has the most pictures in it.
Matt: I really liked the old Planescape art, especially the maps by Robert Lazzeretti.
Megan: I love the Strange and Numenera Bestiaries. I think the best image in each of them is the size comparison of the various monsters to a human.
Patrick: In the Montaigne Nation Book for 7th Sea there is a drawing of a nobleman using a servants back as a writing desk. It’s just so goddamned weird
Rob: Anything Cthulhu

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#RPGaDay2015 11: Favorite RPG Writer

Last year we celebrated Autocratik’s #RPGaDay, where we spend a month celebrating RPGs, discussing what we love and what we love about them. Here are the responses of the TRF crew. Be sure to tweet, blog, or post your own with the #RPGaDay!

For August 11, Who is your favorite RPG writer?
Aser: Adam Scott Glancy: I like ridiculously well researched historical Cthulhu games setting in very bleak places. He’s my guy for that.
Chuck: Shanna Germain
John: Ken Hite.
Jonn: It sucks that this isn’t plural. So I’m going to go with my Favorite RPG writer in the last couple of years. Erin M Evans
Landan: I am bad with names the only one I can think of offhand is Shanna Germain.
Matt: Vincent Baker (Lumpley Games). Not only are his own games amazing, but the games that have spun off of his work (like Dungeon World) are really great, too.
Megan: Shanna Germain, Monte Cook, Bruce Cordell, and Kenneth Hite.
Patrick: Rob Vaux, if only because my copy of the Freiburg expansion of 7th Sea was signed by him.
Rob: Monica Valentinelli

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#RPGaDay2015 10: Favorite RPG Publisher

Last year we celebrated Autocratik’s #RPGaDay, where we spend a month celebrating RPGs, discussing what we love and what we love about them. Here are the responses of the TRF crew. Be sure to tweet, blog, or post your own with the #RPGaDay!

For August 10, Who is your favorite RPG publisher?
Aser: Pagan Publishing: The little CoC publisher that could, they’ve been around since the 90s or something like that and gave us Delta Green, then and now. Need I say more?
Chuck: Monte Cook Games
John: Fantasy Flight Games.
Jonn: This is a hard one for me. I have bought more Wizard of the Coast and Fantasy Flight products than anything else. However that is more because it was always easier to find groups playing those systems. I’ll have to go with Margaret Weis Production because I have gotten the most enjoyment out of those systems.
Landan: I think it would have to be Paizo since I own most of their stuff with Monte Cook Games being next in line.
Matt: Lumpley Games (Apocalypse World, Dogs in the Vineyard, etc.). Monte Cook games is a close second, though.
Megan: I refuse to choose between Monte Cook Games and Pelgrane Press. The things that I love playing and running the most come from these groups and I’m willing to try anything they offer sight unseen.
Patrick: White Wolf, they may run things weirdly but Mage was solid.
Rob: Steve Jackson Games

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#RPGaDay2015 9: Favorite Media you wish was an RPG

Last year we celebrated Autocratik’s #RPGaDay, where we spend a month celebrating RPGs, discussing what we love and what we love about them. Here are the responses of the TRF crew. Be sure to tweet, blog, or post your own with the #RPGaDay!

For August 9, What is your favorite media you wish was an RPG?

Aser: I’d like to see another Star Trek RPG, old continuity of course.
Chuck: What hasn’t been made into a RPG yet?
John: The Dark Crystal and Trans-Formers.
Jonn: I can’t think of one that isn’t a RPG already. I would be surprised if even MSNBC, Fox News or CNN lacked a TTRPG. -_-
Landan: Well I think with the Cypher System Rulebook being as open ended as it seems so far most things you can make into one if you either can’t find a system or don’t like the one that was created.
Matt: I’m sure it exists and I just haven’t seen it, but I would enjoy a Star Trek RPG. I’ve only given the Firefly RPG a cursory glance, but I’ve toyed with the idea of trying to reskin it to fit more of a Star Trek aesthetic
Megan: I would love to play a game in Rapture or Columbia. I love the Bioshock worlds and it would be a lot of fun.
Patrick: The Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher
Rob: Gravity Falls

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#RPGaDay2015 5: Most Recent RPG purchase

Last year we celebrated Autocratik’s #RPGaDay, where we spend a month celebrating RPGs, discussing what we love and what we love about them. Here are the responses of the TRF crew. Be sure to tweet, blog, or post your own with the #RPGaDay2015!

For August 5, What is your most recent RPG purchase?
Aser: The Big Crime: It’s a game that sets out to recreate a story straight out of a film noir movie night, to a fault some will probably say, me among them. The game sounds like a lot of fun though, and I can’t wait until I have more exposure to the genre and can run it for Megan.
Chuck: Worlds Numberless and Strange: Monte Cook Games
John: Prob Onyx Path Dark Eras Kickstarter for the Hunter chapters on pdf.
Jonn: Firefly Roleplaying
Landan: I pre-ordered the Monte Cook Games Cypher System Rulebook and I am going to purchase the Occult Adventures for Pathfinder soon.
Matt: Shadows of Esteren and Feng Shui 2. Looking forward to trying both soon!
Megan: I just participated in DriveThruRPG’s Christmas in July so Stars of Empire, Monsterhearts, Horror Rules: The Simply Horrible Role-Playing Game, It’s Coming…, The Black Spot, Lost Days of Memories and Madness, and Control: The Game of Absolute Corruption.
Patrick: Iron Kingdoms
Rob: Firefly RPG

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