Day 8 Main Prompt: An accessory you appreciate

Physical dice. Even though I almost exclusively play online these days I still strongly prefer physical dice and use them instead of online tools whenever possible. Dice can be something you collect, I have a feeling most of us have not only multiple sets but also a number of interesting dice that may have never been used in a game but that we bought because they looked neat or had a gimmick on one side. Dice also fill that tactile need some players have, a connection between the real world of their table and the imaginary world of the roleplaying game itself.

Day 8 Alternate Prompt: experiment and my d10 roll is a 9, Write an eavedroppable dialogue.

“You have gone too far! Can you not see that this is knowledge we are not meant to know?! Please Professor, stop this before it is too late!”

“I am surprised Brinks, I thought you wanted to find out the truth behind reality? I must have been mistaken, we have one minor setback and you are ready to throw in the towel.”

“You call that a minor setback, Professor? He is a vegetable! We fried his brain, we might as well have put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger.”

“Tsk, tsk Brinks, he was homeless. No one will miss him and the hogs will eat well tomorrow. The important thing is that we made progress! Perhaps what you need to focus on is the fact you aren’t blameless in the eyes of the authorities anymore. You picked him, you brought him here, you injected him.”

“Trapped, you have outwitted me and trapped me Professor.”

“Of course I have. Now there is no need to pout, accept that we are working on something larger than the life of a few homeless bums. Let us move on to the vivisection, I think we might find some new surprises this time…”

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.