My friend and GM Attronarch mentioned there was a fun blogging project going around the TTRPG internet, apparently it’s done every August. There’s one prompt a day to blog about. All the prompts are in the graphic above.

I’m somewhat late to the party, so I think I will collect my RPG answers into weekly blog posts instead. Here goes nothing: 

1. First RPG played this year?
   
   I almost gave myself a seizure attempting to recall my first game of 2021. It’s between two games. It was either a game of Delta Green I ran in Attronarch’s server whilst he was away on holiday, or it was the start of my Xyntillan campaign. I can’t remember which, but both were lots of fun.
   
   
2. First RPG game master?
   
   That would be my buddy Harry who I grew up studying kung fu with. I was around twenty when he advertised a game of Chronicles of Darkness to me. I’d heard of D&D, obviously, but had only really forayed into war gaming at that time. He was back from university and was super excited to try GMing. I sort of ruined the fun for myself, though. The night before his game I’d gone out drinking with his sister. By the next day I was a shell of a man, laid out on the sofa nursing a terrible hangover. I don’t think I would have been a very good player. It’s probably a mercy I can’t remember it. I think I played a vagabond who was hunting a vampire or something. Oh youth, where have you gone?
   
   
3. First RPG bought this year?
   
   I had to go back through my DrivethruRPG library to find this out. It was the The Mother of all Treasure Tables by Necromancer Games. I used this to pad out some treasure in my Xyntillan campaign. I’ve used it maybe three or four times since. It’s good for stocking dungeons when you are weary of forever placing massive piles of gold.
   
   
4. Most recent game bought?
   
   Back to the DriveThruRPG library I go. I bought the Bottomless Pit of Zorth recently. It’s a fantastic modern module for AD&D. The adventure location is a huge pit containing a rotating drill-like contraption that players can descend. There’s lots of high weirdness throughout the module, just my cup of tea. I’d really like to run this, and if I do I’ll run it with 1e, RAW.
   
   
5. Oldest Game you’ve played?
   
   Probably chess or … tic-tac-toe? I will redirect this question away from the general and towards RPG gaming. I have played kriegspiel once. It was on a dedicated server by some sort of Kriegspeil society. I was interested in trying it from a war gaming and TTRPG perspective, as its essentially the source of all war gaming; by way of D&D it is also the daddy of all TTRPGs as well. It was interesting, and like TTRPGs the experience was totally dependant on how competent the judge was. I’d recommend all hobbyists to try it once.
   
   
6. Favourite game you never get to play?
   
   I really like Hail Caesar by Warlord Games. I have a late Roman army (which doubles as Romano-British) and a barbarian army that can be Gothic, Celtic or what have you. I am not massively interested in the model collecting part of the hobby, which is why my models are all cheap 72 scale ones; a scale that no-one collects; so I never get to play. If I wasn’t so stubborn I would just collect heroic 25mm scale models and actually play. No dice, I’m afraid.