My theme is a month of prompts and ideas for tabletop role-playing games or prompts for fantasy writers.
(The following campaign and prompt are pro LGBTQIA+ and diversity. If you aren't, you can click away from my blog right now, bu-bye.)
Just do Recon
The party is from a cis-gender land where only "male" and "female" are recognized, and women are looked down upon as lower in value.
The party is hired by their ruler to explore a recently discovered land. The ruler intends to destroy the people living there so as to conquer the area and expand the country. Just do recon for a given time period and report back.
However, the party learns that the people of the other land are vastly different. The culture of your ruler's land forbids most of what makes these people enhanced.
- Will your party end up fighting them or ask to join them?
- Will it turn out that any of your party has been hiding a truth that will give them an enhancement?
The Discovered Land:
Enhancement or gifts are all given via a blessing. Each morning, the spiritual leader sits in a large triangle in the center of the land. (Similar to a plaza.) Any of-age person who comes and declares they are worthy, if that is their truth, receives the enhancement or gift permanently.
- Trans +5 wisdom
- Bi and Pan +5 intelligence
- Gave birth +3 strength
- Raises multiple children +5 dexterity
- Not reproducing +5 constitution
- Asexuals +4 charisma
- Aromantic +2 charisma, +2 wisdom
- Demisexual +2 charisma, +2 intelligence
- Questioning +1 intelligence, +1 wisdom
- Gay men are given better shields
- Lesbian women are given better armor
- Gender fluids, intersex, and non-binary get better weapons and spells
- Gender-neutral get two additional skills and are immediately ranked competent (or mid-level proficiency term of the game)
- "Plus" (for whatever isn't covered here) an extra skill of competent rank and +2 for the attribute of your choice
- Anyone who is disabled, permanently injured, or differently-abled receives an animal companion
- Elders are blessed with +7 to ability scores, an animal companion, and impenetrable armor that weighs almost nothing (this is in addition to the above enhancements)
(Cis characters aren't looked down on, but they also don't get any special bonuses for just existing.)
Anyone who steps into the triangle and is a pretender is cursed by the spiritual leader. Negative 5 to all attributes, loss of all weapons, armor, shields, and mounts, and becomes inept at three skills forever.
Neat! Sounds fun.
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