Day 28 Main Prompt: Great Gamer Gadget

Today I will discuss the absolute best gamer gadget I have found in the last two decades. It is my smart phone. I personally use an iPhone but I have dabbled with Android and Blackberry in the past. Smart phones let us store and read PDFs, use virtual die rollers, access the internet and in some cases virtual table tops. I don’t use D&D Beyond but I understand that it and other programs can provide virtual character sheets for players. Internet access lets me participate on discord and various online forums from anywhere and through Zoom and other methods I can even play games on the road. That isn’t even touching the ability to listen to podcast and watch videos / movies. All in all there is nothing that has increased my ability to stay in touch with fellow gamers , access game materials, and play games than my smart phone.

Day 28 Alternate Prompt: Mimic and my d10 roll is a 8, present an idea for a random encounter

“The noises came from the refrigerator. It was an awful voice, I won’t go back in the house as long as it is there.” Billy said.

“Don’t worry, we’ll take care of it,” Ann said in a comforting voice as she winked at Joan, “supernatural manifestations are our bread and butter.”

The investigators entered the house leaving the disturbed homeowner on the porch.

“What a wimp, where do you find these guys Ann?” Joan didn’t have a lot of patience for silliness and the idea of a haunted refrigerator was very high on her list of silly things. “I’m not getting any readings here. No temperature change, no EMF readings, this is stupid. I hope he doesn’t stiff us. Listen …” she stopped as Ann touched her arm, “what?”

Ann’s voice was an octave higher than normal, “Joan, maybe we should get back up.”

Joan looked up from her detector to see the refrigerator had not only moved to the center of the kitchen it had also split to expose a jagged mouth full of silver, metallic teeth and what appeared to be slobber was drooling out of the impossible maw.

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.