RPG-a-Day: 11th through 17th

In for a week, in for the month. Another week of RPG-a-Day entries.

Favorite RPG Writer

Ken Hite will always have my money. I've been a fan of his work since Pyramid Magazine was a once a week ezine. His Suppressed Transmissions series never failed to amaze me and I love his work on Night's Black Agents, The Dracula Dossier, Nazi Occult and numerous other works.

Favorite RPG Illustration

My favorite art I think either has to be the piece below by Jerome Huguenin (for Trail of Cthulhu) or one of the pieces by Samuel Araya. I love mixes of the realistic and the surreal and their art possesses something that immediately gets my creative juices flowing.

Favorite RPG Podcast

Based on my response to the first question of this week it should be no surprise that I enjoy Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff. Their 15 minute segment structure works well for listening while cooking or walk across town. I find the conversations always illuminating. I'm glad to hear they won an Ennie this year.

Favorite RPG Accessory

This would either by my tablet or my dice. I'm not married to my current tablet model so let's go with dice, specifically my Promethean: the Created dice. I like them because they are easy to read, distinctive and for a pair of sentimental reasons. First because I love Promethean itself and second because I actually won them at GenCon through excellent roleplaying.

Longest Campaign played

Several years ago I ran a four year long 80+ session game of Mage: the Awakening called The Darkness That Men Make. It took my players from starting neophytes to the heights of Mastery..and beyond. After over 320 hours of play, my PCs included the head of Chicago's Adamantine Arrow, an Archmage of Death, and a Provost who bound his soul to a near god-like void spirit.

Longest game session played

A long time ago, back in high school I played a game that started after school around 6 or so and ran until the early hours of the morning. We slept and then played until 4 the following afternoon. There was a 4 hour combat in the middle there which we dubbed the never-ending battle.

Favorite Fantasy RPG

I ran D&D so long that part of me is dead now. Rangers, Paladins, and Wizards seem so blah to me that I can barely summon the urge to play regardless of how the rules have changed. Since D&D dominates fantasy RPG landscape, I see too much of it in other games. So for this question I’ll have to go with Arcana Evolved which at least injects some new ideas into the mix.