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 22, What is your perfect gaming environment?
Aser: My perfect gaming environment is one I rarely get to enjoy: it’s any time I get to sit near Megan while playing.
Chuck: At home with large table
John: In basement with dim lights, online via Google Hangouts or Skype.
Jonn: An place that supports human life and isn’t too windy.
Landan: Well I guess a good internet connection for my online RPG activities like TRF, and a decently big table for when I play within an arm’s reach of people.
Matt: Anywhere with plenty of space and a well-stocked bar.
Megan: I really love playing around a table, with lots of snacks and alcohol. But playing online is also a ton of fun!
Patrick: Home, or a friends home. Just make the experience a bit more intimate and you can play off the energy of the room.
Rob: Kitchen table with beers and snacks!

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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 21, What is your favorite RPG setting?
Aser: I’m going to cheat and say the world of The Strange. Because in The Strange, you can go pretty much anywhere. My party killed Darth Vader last month… 🙂
Chuck: The Strange
John: ‘Real’ world, or BECMI Mystara setting.
Jonn: Hmm, That is a hard one. I would say Fallout, but that would be using a technicality since I never actually played the fan made Fallout Pen and Paper. I’ve gotten the most use out of Eberron. I’ve used that setting for games in at least four different rulesets.
Landan: I really like the world Pathfinder has established but Numenera’s setting is really great to.
Matt: Planescape still stands out to me. So much potential for wild adventures with no limitations on how weird things could get. I keep hoping it will get an official relaunch in some capacity, but Numenera and The Strange are excellent spiritual successors that I am enjoying.
Megan: The Ninth World, no question. It has everything I could ever want in a setting.
Patrick: Not sure if there is a Diesel punk setting, but I’d be down for that all damn day.
Rob: Shadowrun

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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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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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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 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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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 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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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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