August is #RPGaDay2024 and I am going to posting daily responses to the prompts. You can find more information about #RPGaDAY2024 here: https://www.autocratik.com/2024/07/announcing-rpgaday2024-for-august.html

There are two sets of prompts this year and since I have room to do so on the blog I will answer both. In episode S2E6 of my podcast titled RPGaDAY2024 Panel Discussion I assemble an esteemed panel and we go through the main prompts for the entire month’s so I will try to give different answers here on the blog but may end up repeating myself occasionally.  

On their podcast Mirke the Meek suggested using the alternate prompts to create a setting and that is a great idea so I’m going to steal that. The setting I am going to craft for this month will be a modern, conspiracy style setting. Nominally I think we’ll set it in the 1970’s to avoid the problems cell phones and the internet can cause if player characters have access to them.

Here are the main prompts:

And here are a set of alternative prompts suggested by Skala Wyzwania, look at the day on the left, pick the theme, then roll d10. 

Day 1 Main Prompt: First RPG bought this year. 

FrontierSpace by DWD Games. It is basically their house d100 system and I already had Barebones Fantasy and Covert Ops which is a modern espionage / action game. I figured I would finish out the collection. I haven’t gotten any of these to the table yet but would like to at some point. Covert Ops in particular seems like the spiritual successor to Top Secret S.I.

Day 1 Alternate Prompt: Runes and my d10 roll is a 4 which is “invent an item.” 

Runes have great power in this setting, they are an ancient, magical alphabet and written with the correct materials they can be used to create wards of power. The item in question is The Black Dagger, a large, double edged dagger made from a meteorite that fell to Earth in the distance past. Runes have been etched into the blade, written in dragon blood. 

This dagger can be used to kill any creature, even those normally impervious to normal weapons or attacks. When it strikes roll percentile dice for damage. It ignores armor and damage reduction. If the number rolled doesn’t kill the creature outright it removes a percentage of the creature’s hit points equal to the number rolled. So if the roll was a 67 and 67 points of damage wasn’t enough to outright kill the creature, perhaps it has 200 hit points, it would remove 67% of the creature’s hit points, in this case 134 hit points. Mind you this is from the creature’s maximum hit points not their current hit points. 

That’s all for today, until tomorrow be excellent to each other!