Day 27 Main Prompt: Marvelous Miniature

The works of Ray Harryhausen. His work with miniatures and stop motion revolutionized the movie industry and fueled the imagination of gamers world wide. Take a minute to poke around The Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation website and then rewatch some of his amazing films. If you haven’t seen them yet I envy you because you will be thrilled and amazed by his creations. Website here: https://www.rayharryhausen.com/

Day 27 Alternate Prompt: Shapeshifting and my d10 roll is a 6, create a random table

With a mighty blow the tall, gaunt man falls down and before your horrified eyes starts to change, his body twists, his skin becomes malleable, and he turns into a: Roll a d10

1 wolf

2 large rat

3 tiger

4 gold dragon

5 tall, white, featureless humanoid form that looks like a mannequin.

6 goose

7 Dire Wraith

8 tall, gaunt woman

9 spitting image of one of the PCs

10 pile of pink goo

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.