Day 19 Main Prompt: Sensational Session

A few years ago I ran a session of Deep7 Press’ Daisho, a simple set of samurai rules. I ran a one shot where the players had to avenge their Shogun’s death. I was lucky to have a number of great players in the game who bought into the concept totally and we had a great session. The climax was a raid on the enemy at a geisha house resulting in victory at the cost of a number of heroic sacrifices which left just one player character alive at the end of the battle. That player ended the session committing Seppuku amidst a garden of cherry blossoms.

Day 19 Alternate Prompt: Hologram and my d10 roll is a 6, Create a Random Table

Uh Oh! You rolled a critical failure in using that Hologram, what is the malfunction? Roll a D6.

1 Flickering Image

2 No Audio

3 Image and Audio are not in synch with each other

4 Image is too bright, it “glows”

5 Audio is too loud and reverberates

6 Everything is working great and then suddenly everything freezes for 5 seconds before cutting out (disappearing) for good

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.