#RPGaDay2025 - Day 25 - Challenge

Day 25 of #RPGaDay2025 and I'm given a softball.  CHALLENGE.

It is funny, way back for  #RPGaDay2019 I originally mention my Challenge Challenge: to acquire hardcopies, or pdfs, or what have you,  of GDWs classic magazine Challenge and mine it for ideas for the GDW house games, but also Star Wars, Star Trek, Cyberpunk, Call of Cthulhu and a host of other games.  

A six year update:  As I did more research, and ran a Star Wars d6 campaign, I remembered that issues #1-24 were actually Journal of the Traveller's Aid Society (JTAS), and since the campaign had gray mercantile basis to it, with a focus on exotic animals, I focused on those and the first five issues Challenge (25-29).  

Before we moved over to an equally long-running Gamma World campaign, the Star Wars campaign had 106 sessions.    I used two Star Frontiers modules, some free FFG Star Wars material, and one Judge's Guild Traveller scenario, but out of 110 articles about planets, ships, critters, equipment, and scenarios in the particular part of the print run,  I managed to use 25 of them in the campaign (including 8 scenarios, 5 NPCs, 5 groups of critters, and some interpretive campaign development using the Traveller New Service bulletins.)   In reality, I only pulled from 11 issues for all that information, so it's a great investment, especially in the world $60 scenarios/campaigns. 

The Tree Kraken, one of the space critters inserted in our Star Wars campaign lore.