Day 13 Main Prompt: Evocative Environments

Ken Hite’s The Day After Ragnarok is full of evocative environments. This is a post apocalyptic world where the Nazi’s raised the Midguard Serpent and President Truman had to use the atomic bomb to kill the monster whose corpse fell on Europe and Africa. It is a world of “submachine guns & sorcery” and setting I would dearly love to get to the table one of these days. Here’s the blurb from Atomic Overmind Press:

“Mighty-thewed barbarians and grim mercenaries roam the desolate plains of Ohio. Giant snakes, and those who worship them, prowl the ruins of St. Louis. Pirates battle the Japanese invaders in the South China Sea. Bold British agents, equipped with experimental bio-technology, thwart the insidious infiltration of Stalin’s humanzees. Sky-raiders strike from hidden bases in the Sahara, deros skulk in South American caverns, and the Texas Rangers fight electrical death worms to save Los Alamos.”

Day 13 Alternate Prompt: Zombie and my d10 roll is a 2, Create a NPC

As much as I love Lucio Fulci’s zombies I think the version I prefer for most games are the older ones raised by black magic. Of course that they don’t rise on their own so they need someone to raise them, someone like, Dr. Ernest McNab, BODY DOC. Of course nothing is easy, our zombie master is also the head coroner of the city of Los Angeles! With a steady supply of bodies to experiment on and the protection of his office he will be a difficult opponent for the players to deal with. Of course he has plenty of minions they will have to work through before they will be able to even figure out his identity.

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

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.