Hugo Awards 2026

Hugo Awards 2026 news at Reactor

As is traditional I am most invested in the Dramatic Presentation awards, have seen all the Long Form, a strong field and HELL YEAH SINNERS WON

RPGaDAY 2026 21. Charity

#RPGaDAY 2026

21. Charity

21. Share an RPG charity past or present that moved you.

Tim Bradstreet had his signed early Vampire: The Masquerade art portfolios for sale at the 2011 Grand Masquerade convention in the US and I went to get one to put into the Conpulsion auction here, I mentioned this and he gave me it for free. (I bought another for myself, naturally!) And I was glad to let him know it was the first lot to go for more than £100 that year.

Photo by Martin Ericsson

There was also the time a family illness led to Conpulsion switching charity for the auction, for which I am forever grateful.

And as GM Ian mentions, the long-running Marvel SAGA game where I played Charity Chance, Agent Of SABER!

Autocratik

Runeslinger

RPGaDAY 2026 15. Endurance

#RPGaDAY 2026

15. Endurance

15. How would you organise an endurance session of your favourite game?

I’ve helped organise and run 24 hour charity RPG events, with optional sponsorship for how many hours a player can manage as well as ways to buy powers and equipment and plot twists with donations. I wasn’t one of the GMs who tried to run one game the whole time, however.

I’ve also been in weekend and longer gaming retreats, including one where a three-part game ran every evening, but not one where the group tried to get through a whole campaign in the time.

Marathon sessions need ways for PCs to come and go along with their players. They often go with the classic dungeon crawl tournament style, seeing how long a given PC can survive.

Not something I’m great at - I could probably do it with a horror game though. An always rising threat and lots of PCs to throw at it. Alien looks like a good choice from the games in my to-do-something-with stack.

I could absolutely run a weekend mini-campaign of many games, six sessions or so. If there’s a suitably sized campaign you can do in that time, go for it.

Something like a mini-arc for Buffy like running through the Initiative specific parts of season four, or the Pylea miniseries at the end of Angel season two.

Maybe a Vampire game tracking a small group through history, or to pick an example we’ve had a sourcebook and TV show for since I ran a band game going on tour.

Or a Star Wars game doing a “trilogy” with a rising threat to galactic freedom, starting with a plucky band and ending with massive space battles and also high personal stakes.

Or an MCU-sized superhero adventure.

Or...

Autocratik

Runeslinger

Commonwealth 2026 closing ceremony

No TARDIS.

Weird uplifting choir and jam version of Loaded by Primal Scream.

Good choice for fair play award.

#RPGaDAY2026

#RPGaDAY2026

RPG a Day 2026 begins now! (With my first answer around 12:01.)

Each day in the month of August, roleplaying gamers work from the infographic below to take inspiration from each of the 31 prompts to post positively in affirmation of the joys and benefits of RPGs and the relationships and skills we have developed as a result.

Introductory post by David F. Chapman, including a text prompt list

Explanatory post by Anthony Boyd, plus a video intro with David and Anthony

This year I plan to answer the prompt questions. I had another plan for the single words but it kind of fell through.

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Daily Prompts

1. Discipline

2. Stature

3. Poise

4. Charm

5. Burden

6. Reach

7. Mercy

8. Resolve

9. Privilege

10. Secret

11. Tact

12. Loss

13. Strain

14. Regard

15. Endurance

16. Composure

17. Intensity

18. Directness

19. Desire

20. Promise

21. Charity

22. Grit

23. Fortune

24. Distance

25. Familiarity

26. Regret

27. Hunger

28. Devotion

29. Labour

30. Pride

31. Edge

Weekly Modifiers

Week 1 - Drive

Week 2 - Intellect

Week 3 - Associates

Week 4 - Instinct

Week 5 - Emotion

Week 6 - Ability

Daily Modifiers

Monday - Fair of Face

Tuesday - Full of Grace

Wednesday - Full of Woe

Thursday - Far to Go

Friday - Loving & Giving

Saturday - Works Hard

Sunday - Blessed

Daily Prompt Questions

1. Share a character or fellow player who is a strong example of discipline.

2. What does one character’s stature in their community mean to them?

3. Poise: How does one character present themselves?

4. An enjoyable moment of charm gone right or wrong?

5. What burden is a character willing to carry until the end?

6. Reach: Who would you like to be able to share RPGs with?

7. A moment of mercy received or given?

8. A moment when a character kept or broke their resolve?

9. Give one reason why it is a privilege to play with your group.

10. A secret you hope comes out about a character?

11. A character made great by having or not having tact.

12. Most things end. What is one RPG loss you still feel?

13. Strain: So far, what is the heaviest set of RPG things you have carried to play?

14. What is a game held in high regard you have yet to play?

15. How would you organise an endurance session of your favourite game?

16. One thing that will cause a character to lose their composure?

17. A satisfying example of a character’s integrity.

18. Directness: A fast introduction of a new PC or player?

19. A huge risk taken because of desire?

20. Have the characters kept or broken more promises?

21. Share an RPG charity past or present that moved you.

22. An enjoyable moment of grit PCs did or did not tough out.

23. An enjoyable moment of good or bad fortune.

24. Your preferred distance in any type of RPG conflict?

25. One game you want to get more familiar with?

26. One game you regret not trying?

27. What do you hunger for most from a session?

28. Devotion: Game you have played the most!

29. Labour: Thing you are most willing to work on for a game.

30. A game event that you are still proud of.

31. Why does a character think they have an edge?

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Looking ahead

This week sees the V? panel and playtest which we'll get to see at least some of online officially and no doubt all unofficially.

And with Do Us Part concluded, maybe a change to summer Sunday evenings for a while, ahead of probably returning to GEAS in a few weeks depending on when and where.

And I feel I should offer something online to a couple grops as I have time.

But also questioning continuing my one current play-by-post after something I saw today.

I shouldn’t make any decisions in this mood.

Little bit o' politics

“What’s today, my fine fellow?”

“Today? Why, today is New Prime Minister Who Didn’t Win A General Election Day!”

“... Again?”

Maybe it’s just me but the seventh Prime Minister in ten years announcing a glorious ten year plan seems... optimistic.

(I would probably be less snarky if I wasn’t pissed off by three of the four things he’s already announced.)

Garbage at Edinburgh Castle

Garbage were amazing. I feel ten years younger. Except in my feet.

SCHISM!

SCHISM!

Was not expecting one of those today.

Let alone one where the people being booted out are the bad guys.

Edinburgh International Film Festival 2026

The Film Festival brochure is up, Ewan McGregor and a Trainspotting reunion, some possibly interesting midnight movies, but most tempted by the Connery-induced juxtaposition of a retrospective screening of The Rock at Filmhouse.

#RPGaDAY2026

#RPGaDAY2026 prompts are out, as as shared at Autocratik and FAQed at Runeslinger

Single words on the infographic but also an option for questions - I will likely do both.

And while some of the words suggest the glorious workers’ struggle, as the first word is Discipline and there are a few more like that I might well give the single word prompts to Vampire.

Free RPG Day

Hoping to see some things in PDF as the UK was hit by shipping issues.

I found the map and someone was able to get a book as a result. Pleased, not at all jealous!

Birthday 2026

I am...

Editing out the blurb about being as addictive as any good TV series, not to brag.

Fringe 2026

Edinburgh Fringe brochure acquired and -

Hamlet 5, Macbeth 1!

Both a fair number of deconstructions but we’re not doing penalties here.

Ten years since I voted and can say I told you so

You ain’t shut them out, you just locked us in

Kid Kapichi ft. Bob Vylan, New England

Politician who sounds like minor character from Game Of Thrones falls on own sword but not literally.

Summer Solstice

Summer should be kicking in any day now...

Pride 2026

In the time it took me to walk past the Pride stage I heard Espresso and It’s Raining Men so did not feel shortchanged.

Yeah, New York is one of the places I would move to.

RPG Trader

RPG Trader is a newe webstore for tabletop RPGs, with print on demand by LuLu.

A policy banning generative AI material

Revenue splitting for teams of creators

Print-on-Demand via LuLu

A review system which doesn't effect visibility where you have the choice to recommend something and... that's it. There's no downvotes.

A Sensitive Content Policy which says you can sell things featuring NSFW material so long as it's flagged, just don't put anything NSFW on the store page.

Aiming for an indie space, like itch.io which has always been secondary for it.

Morgue has put all his taleturn games up for one, including a new print version of Tell Me More, Tell Me More.