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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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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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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