RPGaDay 22-31

Here are my answers to the final few questions for 2022’s RPGaDay in 2022.

22 - Who is your current character?

I’m currently playing Nyssa Jones, a GCHQ cybersecurity specialist in a game of Cthulhu Deep Green set in modern-day London. She also works for Artemis, an organisation seeking to save humanity from the darkness. Her handler is Mr Garland—whose name we picked because we had just finished a game of The Dee Sanction. Is it the same Mr Garland? We don’t know.

(And I say “currently playing” as that’s my only ongoing game at the moment—it’s been a slow summer for one reason or another.)

Cthulhu Deep Green is a kind of Delta Green for Cthulhu Dark. The system is a little more forgiving than Cthulhu Dark. Artemis is our equivalent of Delta Green.

23 - What situation are they currently in?

We’re investigating some attacks in East Hampstead, which has led us towards some disappearances and potentially even the Highgate Vampire from the 1970s. We found a mysterious old house that I found really creepy—I waited outside while my colleague bravely explored it. Whenever we think we are getting somewhere in the mystery, we have more questions. I’m loving it.

24 - When did you start playing this character?

November 2021. As we play weekly, that sounds like I should have played 20+ episodes by now. But thanks to the GM getting a new (and stressful) job, we’ve only played four times (I’ve run Fate of Cthulhu instead). 

We’re using a detailed Trello board, so it’s easy to pick up where we left off.

We’ll get back to it soon—I thought it might be this week, but we’re returning to Fate of Cthulhu instead.

25 - Where has the character been?

The game so far has been confined to London—we’ve not strayed further afield, and I don’t expect to, as London is one of the defining things about the game.

26 - Why does your character do what they do?

That’s a good question and one we haven’t explored. The meta reason is that she does the things she does because we’re playing Cthulhu Deep Green. I guess I should think about her motivations for doing this (but I love this kind of game, so I don’t need strong character motivations to enthuse me).

27 - How has the character changed?

It’s a bit early for that. And to be honest, I don’t expect we’ll play long enough for any character development—apart from the usual mental trauma characters get from a Cthulhu game.

28 - Roll 1d8+1, tag that many friends with your favourite RPG cover art.

I am generally underwhelmed by RPG cover art and don’t like most of it. I think the best-looking RPG is/was Traveller: I really liked the little black books for their understated elegance. That’s not really “cover art”, though, is it?

29 - Who would you like to see take part in #RPGaDAY?

I didn’t answer this one, but I saw one inspired answer that I really liked—the Queen!

30 - What should #RPGaDAY do for its 10th anniversary next year?

Realise that 31 questions is too many. These are starting to run out of steam—as are the answers.

I prefer fewer questions, more spaced out. 

31 - When did you first take part in #RPGaDAY?

This is the first year (although I participated in Dr Mitch’s 12 days of RPG back in December 2017). August is normally a bad month for me—we’re usually away for the first week in August, and then it feels like hard work to catch up.

This year, I caught covid and had time to sit at my laptop. So here we are.

Will I do it again next year? Maybe, maybe not. 31 questions is a lot, and I feel the quality of both the questions and answers dropped towards the end.