This year, it looks like RPGaDay has become a character creation challenge and I am on board with that. The early years of the challenge were easy for me, since they encouraged me to share my collection of games, which I was quite proud of. Then it moved more towards gaming stories and anecdotes, which I do have a collection of, but it's a limited number and it has not been growing significantly in recent years.
The idea of a character creation challenge appeals to me. It lets me leverage the books that are on my shelf. It pushes me to create rather than reflect. The thing I'm not sure about would be exactly what sort of focus I want to have.
I could readily go back to "shelfie" mode, creating a character for a selection of RPGs that I own. Or I could create characters as possible NPCs and PCs for a campaign. I've been working on an Ashes Without Number setting for some time, and it could be an opportunity to flesh that out.
Or maybe I could think about a campaign I've wanted to do that has lain fallow for some time.
I've wanted to do Stars Without Number for some time and have the basics of a sector rolled up, but turning that into something that I can zoom in on enough to imagine what a campaign in that sector might look like. Probably a case where I need a Session 0 before I'm really able to run a campaign. But a batch of NPCs might also do the trick.
I always tell myself that if I had to run a campaign in the next week, it would be OSR. Just because of the wealth of material and the straightforward nature of the core activity. So NPCs to flesh out a homebrew fantasy setting might be good too.
Another possibility would be to build another campaign from scratch. I tell myself from time to time that I should make the effort to get familiar with D&D 5e, Pathfinder or Starfinder so I could be more comfortable running or playing in one of the more popular settings/systems out there. So a batch of NPCs in support of one of those concepts might be a good kick in the pants as well.
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