Twelve years of #RPGaDay and I can still generate a pretty vanilla year. The prompts were not fun for me, and the random question generator stuck me with some odd set-ups, even after a second or third roll.
But even an off-year doing #RPGaDay2025 is better than not doing it at all!
Just looking back the last 30 days, this years posts seemed to pull views unseen of since the Year of COVID . Looking back, there's been a continual interest in #RPGaDay, as last year's posts have, on average, over double views in the last 12 months since.
I did get a weird barrage this month of traffic off of “normal” websites, but digging deeper, It all seemed to be generated to the homepage of the block and not any specific link to a post. I have limited using Facebook to promote the daily prompts, usually for Friends were still on it, and my traffic stayed the same from last year, where I posted every day. Most clicks? Twitter. Most engagement? Bluesky. After 20+ years I certainly don’t mind promoting on rpg.net , but that whole site has left a bad taste in my mouth. And if it weren’t for Tim’s Wargaming Blog (highly recommended), Threads wouldn’t exist. Most importantly, thanks for clicking on links last month. Please feel free to hang out for all the other stuff.
Like the #CharacterCreationChallenge, I don't do this for clicks, likes or comments. In eleven year of this and only one post from #RPGaDay has cracked my Top 20 posts of any given year. This year? Four of the posts have cracked my Top 25, and one is somehow #8!
I do enjoy my forays into RPGs, but I'm happy to dive back into narrative and skirmish wargaming, my weekly RPG Actual Plays, and, of course, more gnomes.
My favorite prompt for the month might have been the first, Patron. While I don't normally rely on them, reviewing all my games was a good warm-up through the rest of the process. My most popular post out of the 31 was Day 16: Overcome. If you clicked on it for more than the cheesy AI art, please check out all on my campaigns listed on the blog, but Gamma World's This is Not a a Test specifically.
Barring any usuals surprises, I'll be back to daily community sharing with the #CharacterCreationChallenge in January.
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