Day 9 Main Prompt: An accessory you’d like to see

This is a tough one. I’m a pretty simple guy, give me a set of rules, some dice (and/or cards if needed), pencil & paper and I am pretty happy. If I have a game master’s screen or quick reference sheet for the rules all the better! I use dice towers and dice trays but of course they are already out there. As far as electronic support it doesn’t get any better than the The Crawler’s Companion by Purple Sorcerer Games for Dungeon Crawl Classics. If you play DCC I can’t begin to express how helpful this is, check it out here: https://purplesorcerer.com/crawler.php

But none of that helps me answer the prompt!

I would like a device like a Kindle Paperwhite, a super lightweight reader with long battery life, designed from the ground up for optimal presentation of RPG PDFs. This device might exist but I am not aware of it. I don’t need an iPad or the ability to do anything but be the best PDF reading device it can be.

Day 9 Alternate Prompt: Heroes and my d10 roll is a 6, Create a random table.

Heroes, every world needs them. They might have super powers or they might just have heart but we all need heroes to look up to, to admire, and to encourage us. Of course the danger in the real world is that your hero might have a skeleton hiding in their closet…

Hero’s Dark Secrets Table (Roll 1d20) (These are purposely vague to give you room to interpret them and not every hero should have one of these)

1 Hidden Criminal Record

2 Is Secretly a Mutant

3 Is Secretly an Extraterrestrial

4 Is Racist

5 Belongs to a Cult

6 Stolen Valor

7 Secret Vice

8 Family Problems

9 Bad With Kids

10 Is a Cad

11 Paranoid

12 Has a Phobia

13 Has Unpopular Political Beliefs

14 Vain

15 Acts Superior

16 Routinely Plants Evidence

17 Enjoys Hurting Animals

18 Uses Excessive Force and Enjoys It

19 Odious Personal Habits

20 Is Really a Super Villain

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.