#RPGaDAY2025

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• Day 16, Overcome
  August 17, 2025 by Hexed Press#blog

  Overwhelmed! In West Marches style games, a mechanic is sometimes used on occasions when a Character is unable to return to the hub town before the end of a session. It involves rolling on a table to... Continue reading

  
• Day 15, Deceive
  August 15, 2025 by Hexed Press

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  Day 15, deceive: Lie to Me How can you tell if someone is lying to you? In popular media, it seems so simple. In real life, it’s much more complicated. That said, we’re not playing life here, we... Continue reading

  
• Day 14, Mystery
  August 15, 2025 by Hexed Press

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  Into the Unknown Unraveling mysterious is one of the great pleasures of playing tabletop roleplaying games: figuring out who kidnapped the archpriest and why, unmasking the hidden mastermind behind as... Continue reading

  
• Day 13, Darkness
  August 13, 2025 by Hexed Press

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  Looking up at the Dark Since time immemorial, folk have lifted their eyes to behold the star-studded darkness of the firmament at night, saw the movements of planets, stars, and other celestial bodies... Continue reading

  
• Day 12, Path
  August 12, 2025 by Hexed Press

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  Advanced Pathfinding Finding the right path can make traveling through the wilderness easier. Of course, the emphasis here is on the right path. A wrong one can lead nowhere… or worse. When the part... Continue reading

  
• Day 11, Flavor
  August 12, 2025 by Hexed Press

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  Day 11, flavor: Flavor of the Moth I haven’t had the stomach yet to watch Delicious in the Dungeon (aka Dungeon Meshi) but I’ve heard enough about it to know that eating monsters is a major elemen... Continue reading

  
• Day 10, Origin
  August 11, 2025 by Hexed Press

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  Day 10, origin: On the Origins of PCs The origins of things, including folk of different sorts, can say a lot about your world. It can feel daunting to build out origins but they are rewarding, once t... Continue reading

  
• Day 9, Inspire
  August 09, 2025 by Hexed Press

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  The Breath of the Gods The term, “inspire,” comes to English from Latin via French, meaning to fill or breath into . The original context was religion, inspiration being the influence of the divin... Continue reading

  
• Day 8: Explore
  August 08, 2025 by Hexed Press

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  Exploring the landscape Let’s look at exploration as a wilderness activity, apart from searching or traveling. When exploring a hex, there is no preset goal, as there is when searching . When the pa... Continue reading

  
• Day 7: Journeys
  August 08, 2025 by Hexed Press

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  Where does this path lead? A d66 table: roll 2d6, using the leftmost die as the tens digit and the right die as the ones digit, and consult the table. Roll the table at the blog ... Continue reading

  
• Day 6, Motives
  August 07, 2025 by Hexed Press

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  Motives for Mischief A d66 table: roll 2d6, using the leftmost die as the tens digit and the right die as the ones digit, and consult the table… Roll the table at the blog ... Continue reading

  
• Day 5: Ancient
  August 07, 2025 by Hexed Press

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  Into the Depths of the Earth If archaeology has taught us anything it’s that the deeper you go underground, the older the things you find are. If D&D has taught us anything, it’s that the deeper y... Continue reading

  
• Day 4: Messages
  August 06, 2025 by Hexed Press

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  Fantastic Medieval Mail Call How are messages sent over distance in your game world? Game of Thrones popularized ravens . Pigeons were used from ancient times all the way through WWI. The image of the... Continue reading

  
• Day 3: Taverns
  August 05, 2025 by Hexed Press#blog

  Day 3, on taverns : The tavern is a ubiquitous site in fantasy tabletop roleplaying games. It is where adventurers eat, drink, sleep, seek out adventures, advertise services, and host meet & greets. F... Continue reading

  
• Day 2: Prompts
  August 05, 2025 by Hexed Press#blog

  I got started bright and early today with day 2 of my #RPGaDay2025 work. This topic is prompts . When a wandering creature appears, it often doesn’t come with any sort of context. It falls to the Re... Continue reading

  
• Day 1: Patrons
  August 04, 2025 by Hexed Press

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  I'm starting a bit late but, hopefully, I'll be able to catch up. Here's my first piece, on patrons , that I posted over on my blog . When we look up the definition of patron , the most common results... Continue reading