Day 30 Main Prompt: Person You’d Like to Game WIth

I’m going to cheat and give two answers, these are game developers I greatly admire. Kevin Siembieda of Palladium Books, you can find his work here: https://palladiumbooks.com/

and S. John Ross, creator of Risus and many other wonderful things. You can find his blog here: https://rolltop-indigo.blogspot.com/ and he posts regularly at dice.camp here: https://dice.camp/@SJohnRoss

Day 30 Alternate Prompt: Trap and my d10 roll is a 4, Invent an Item

The Wand of Traps

This wondrous wand is found with a variable number of charges. It has the unique ability to conjure believable illusions of traps, similar to a Phantasm Force spell in some systems. Unless the victim successfully disbelieves the trap, which is only possible if they have a reason to not believe, they take damage as if the trap were real. Spear, arrow, or dart traps cost one charge, pit traps cost two charges (spikes at the bottom are free), and rolling or falling stones cost three charges.

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.