Here we are on Day 22 of the RPGaDAY 2025 Challenge. We have a special topic today with the prompt of ‘Ally’. An ally is someone (individual or team) that cooperates towards a common goal or benefit. To be someone’s ally is to help them out when every you can.
I want to thank my allies. I want to thank those who have helped me. Without your help, I don’t know if I could have made it as far as I’ve could.
First and foremost are my geek wife and family. Not only do they support me when it’s time for dad to make another blog post, but they also help me with artwork (see P.R.O.M.P.T.) or with reviews (such as the Mystery Dice Goblin review) or just bouncing ideas off of. I’ve mentioned about the inter-activeness of ideas and getting energy from them and sometimes my geek family has helped me out with this.
I also want to thank every one of my allies who visit my blog and read my posts. I see the hit counters go up, I see where the clicks come from. Part of the reason this general geek blog turned into more of an RPG geek blog is because that is where the most visits drew you to my little corner of the internet. Every feedback post that you make on the various social media platforms, every thumbs up icon, every virtual donut that is given to me on the TardisCaptain dot Com Discord Server. I love the interaction that we have. I try to post some of the feedback items that I’ve received because they have been good enough to share. I’ve done this for both the RPGaDAY and Character Creation Challenge series. When I launch some new series soon, I hope to get the same amount of feedback as well to share. I especially want to thank those of you who click on my sponsored links to Amazon or DriveThruRPG. I don’t run this blog to make money. If anything, it’s earned peanuts. But what little bit it does earn, I use to pick up other RPGs to review or use in challenges.
I want to thank my gaming friends. Those that invite me to different games that are campaigns or one-shots. Those that run local gaming stores and coordinate the GMs for SaltCON. Even those who just come up to give me a hug (you don’t know how much that helped me out mentally) or sent me special gifts (I still don’t know who mailed me the gift card to Wienerschnitzel). In a world that is trying to beat me down mentally and physically, you don’t know how much your friendship has helped keep me sane. At least as sane as any one of us are.
I try to pay it forward by being an ally to others. I try to re-post the social media links that you make about your blogs. If I can, I try to back crowdfunding campaigns or just buy the product you are selling. I try to respond and give feedback if I feel that I can contribute. Even if it’s a game that I don’t have much interest in playing or homebrewing for, I hope you have fun interacting with it.
Who are your gaming allies? Tell me about it. This article is open for discussion on the TardisCaptain dot Com Discord server. You can also email me at Carl (at) TardisCaptain.com with any comments.