Day 21 Main Prompt: Classic Campaign

I know Pirate Borg is the current hotness and I have praised it as the best of Borg games myself. That said I’m not really thrilled with the idea of playing an evil campaign and that is the direction Pirate Borg leans into. One published pirate campaign that avoids this is Pinnacle Entertainment’s 50 Fathoms. This twenty year old campaign setting involves pirates from our world transported to another world to save it. Highly recommended.

Day 21 Alternate Prompt: Disaster and my d10 roll is a 5, Write a Legend or Rumor

No one new for sure why the plane went down, the black box malfunctioned and wasn’t recording. There were rumors that some of the reconstructed skeletons were not exactly right. Odd shaped skulls, extra bone masses in random places. Only those with the top clearance know for sure, the report was buried before it was even finished. The pilots where reported to have died in a training accident even though the earliest available records of the ‘training exercise’ are dated a week after the incident.

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.