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 3 Main Prompt: Most Often Played RPG.

I am in three ongoing games all of which are over a year old. The Reaver game I mentioned yesterday, a Pathfinder 1E game running through the Wrath of the Righteous Adventure Path, and a play by post En Garde! game on Discord. In Reaver I play a rogue, more of a soccer hooligan, by the name of Brutus who looks a lot like Jason Stratham. In Pathfinder I am playing a Dwarf Monk by the name of Randur and finally in En Garde! I am on my second character, Major Claude du Raines, my first died serving his country at the front. 

Day 3 Alternate Prompt: Demonology and my d10 roll is a 9 which is “Write an Eavedroppable Dialogue”  

Here is a conversation that might be overheard while outside the window of a suspect’s study, an exclusive club for the elite, deep in the sewers, or any college campus.

Voice 1 “Preparations are almost complete, we will move forward with the ceremony tonight!”

Voice 2 “I don’t know, it feels we are rushing this. Perhaps we should wait one more cycle. The authorities are starting to take notice of the disappearances.”

Voice 1 “That is of no consequence, after this sacrifice the ritual will be complete and IT will be here. Even if they can connect us to the disappearances they will have bigger problems and we will relocate to the next nexus point to continue the work of preparing this world for The Master’s return.”

Voice 2 “Very well, I will let those moronic bikers know that the distraction must happen at 10:30 tonight, the authorities will be so busy dealing with it that we will be finished and gone before anyone knows what happened.”

Voice 1 “Let it be done.”

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