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 5 Main Prompt: RPG with great writing. 

Another tough one, how do we define great writing? I’m going to say entertaining enough that you enjoy reading it for its own sake as opposed to just looking up rules questions on occasion. With that in mind one line I return to again and again for inspiration and to just read through (also to look at the art) are the games by Palladium Books. 

Palladium has some of the best settings and core ideas in the industry and their adventures with detailed and interesting NPCs are inspirational even if you don’t run them. The books may not be the best organized and easy to use but they are endlessly entertaining. 

Day 5 Alternate Prompt: Fairies and my roll on the d10 is a 6 which is “Create a Random Table.”

Random Fairy Table

1 Leprechaun

2 Red Cap

3 Pixie

4 Joint-eater

5 Brownie

6 Banshee

7 Selkie 

8 Moss People

9 Nine-Tailed Fox

10 Bluecap 

 

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