Day 31 Main Prompt: Game or Gamer You Miss

One of my favorite retroclones is Fantastic Heroes & Witchery. It seems to be BECMI based but also incudes pulp and space opera classes. Sadly the designer seems to have moved on and nothing new has appeared for years. At the moment it is still available on DrivethruRPG and Lulu.

Day 31 Alternate Prompt: Dragons and my d10 roll is a 9, Write an eavedroppable dialogue

“Donnie, I hear that all dragons have a weakness, all we need to do is find this one’s.”

“Do you know hard that will be to do, Mark? How are we supposed to find this wyrm’s weakness?”

“It can’t be that hard, all we have to do is some research, each dragon is unique so surely there are records of this one. Worse case we can hire a seer to divine it’s weak point. It might be a hole in it’s scales, it may vulnerable to a certain type of metal, perhaps it can’t resist the charms of a virgin.”

“Can’t resist eating virgins you mean Donnie, that is why we were hired, to stop the lottery.”

That’s all for today, until next Friday 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.