I have been doing this for twelve years now. Writing against RPG-a-Day. Against. Again and again. Every day, every August, since 2015. Most often on my own, sometimes collaboratively with others here on d6ideas or across different (German) blogs.
2015: ArtifactaDay
2016: Loot-a-Day
2017: Rival-a-Day
2018: Ad-Blog
2019: RPG+Ally+a+Day
2020: Not One Step Back
2021: Veteran-a-Day
2022: The Thousand Titles of the Cat Emperor
2023: Sommerverdichtung (German only)
2024: CampaignConceptaDay
2025: A-Piece-of-History-Every-Day / Calculating World(s)history
And now? The German next door neighbours at Kritischer Fehlschlag have issued the rallying cry “Crime Scene” (German).
But here? After twelve years of doing this dirty work? There is but one possible answer:
The Dirty Dozen.
Interpreted via the lense of the so called Dirty Dozen of persistent organic pollutants such as DDT and dioxins (although an earlier thought was the likewise so called Dirty Dozen of biological weapons and this might still colour some of the entries).
One-hundred-and-fourty-four poisons and pollutants (in the widest, freest sense). Twelve each for twelve systems. Thirty-one days. Twelve years. Against RPG-a-Day. Again.
Polluting the beyond.
- Infused poison – immortal souls might be immune to poison but not all the denizens of the mirrorlands and spirit world are, and poisons which have been infused as a sideeffect of sorcerous-industrial processes or are the result of targeted military research can cross over the barrier between worlds
- Tainted souls – posthuman energy units can themselves pollute their environment if only the originating person was broken enough – and there is no dearth in projects looking for ways to break people in such a fashion
- Soul iron – infused metal alloys need not be poisonous, but inevitably their mass use on both sides of the barrier will result in particualte debris that will act just like poison even to immortals
- Genocide – as a poison that destroys even the spiritual home of the dead, polluting the spirit world of a vanished people