Mapping Rocks #AtoZchallenge #rpg #fantasy #prompt

My theme is a month of prompts and ideas for tabletop role-playing games or prompts for fantasy writers.

Knowledge Kidnappers Quest - Object

(See letter K post for details.)

Mapping Rocks

When rolled onto blank map parchment, they map the surrounding area, including traps, enemies, treasure, and the position of the sun (if your world has one or more). The ten square rocks (known outside the game as 10D6) might land in any shape. You'll see an accurate drawing of whatever is inside that shape.

Roll to determine how far it maps. Your position is always dead-center between the farthest dice.

It takes five minutes for the rocks to draw. It requires half a day to recharge the rocks between use.

The green mark is centered in the above image. The blue lines represent the outline of the shape that would be revealed on a map.

Lady Capherhim's Comb #AtoZchallenge #rpg #fantasy #prompt

My theme is a month of prompts and ideas for tabletop role-playing games or prompts for fantasy writers.

Knowledge Kidnappers Quest - Object

(See letter K post for details.)

Lady Capherhim's Comb

While running this through one's hair, charisma is boosted +50. Anyone who sees the player using the comb, and who has the letters "p" or "h" in their name, takes a 20 point hit to dexterity for 24 hours; those named with the letter "f" take a 40 point hit to dexterity for 72 hours and needs to roll for every action, including walking or drinking, as they are so enamored by the beauty they have seen that they can barely function.

Misuse - If the comb is used in a way that ruins the life of another (to take the consent of someone or to destroy a true love), the user drops to negative 20 charisma for all time, and no items, spells, or enhancements can improve it. The misuser becomes hideous, and any who look upon them feels revolted and overcome with thankfulness that they look better. Even the blind are somehow aware that they're in the presence of someone disgusting. The comb gives a warning, sending a telepathic message to the player, asking them to rethink their choice before that dreadful use. Time-traveling back and stopping the user is the only way to undo the misuse curse.

Knowledge Kidnappers Quest #AtoZchallenge #rpg #fantasy #prompt

My theme is a month of prompts and ideas for tabletop role-playing games or prompts for fantasy writers.

Knowledge Kidnappers Quest

The greatest scientists, artists, teachers, librarians, etc of the realm have been taken. Along with them, most of the books, art, research, etc.

An old adventurer, an advisor to the king, has called the party members together. Though he cannot go on the quest, he has objects from his questing days that he's willing to loan. These are exceptionally powerful objects. There was a book detailing what they do but, of course, that's gone. His memory is sketchy at best. So each object might have as many benefits as it does drawbacks.

Perhaps only one object per party member. Roll to determine who will select an item and in which order. Or create cards with each item and let players fight over them. Assigning items is also possible.

Whatever items they pick should have an impact on the quest. (A cat that can detect traps isn't fun if there aren't going to be any traps.) The next few posts will focus on some ideas for the powerful objects.

This is what being presidential looks like

(This is NOT an A to Z post. Scroll for those.)

This is MY blog. And I support the lofty ideals of Bernie Sanders.

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2020/04/man-accused-of-sexual-assault-to-win-2020-presidency/

"Some voters expressed surprise that of the thousands of potentially qualified candidates for one of the most powerful jobs on Earth, they would be forced to choose between two men who women have explicitly described as sexual predators, but the majority admitted that in America, this result was far more likely than say, two women being the presidential nominees."

Remember the movie Deep Impact?
The MOST unlikely thing about that movie is now that a president having an affair with someone named Elle (e.l.e.) would be HUGE news.

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These are from a quiz I took back in February.

Just do Recon #AtoZchallenge #rpg #fantasy #prompt #LGBTQIA+

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.

Ignorance is Bliss Campaign #AtoZchallenge #rpg #fantasy #prompt

My theme is a month of prompts and ideas for tabletop role-playing games or prompts for fantasy writers.

Ignorance is Bliss Campaign

The party is formed by a group of adventures who have noticed the balance of luck seems to be off.

At first, rolls requiring a 1d20 instead get a 2d20. Use the lower score.
(Variation- one player gets to always use the higher score. Might be the hero of the group, might get killed because "maybe they're at fault.")

Every 'day' it takes to solve the problem, another d20 is added.


Lucky Objects
There are lucky objects to find along the way. Is the object good luck or bad luck? Roll a d6. An odd number means it's a bad luck object, even means good luck. 🍀🐇🦗👞🐟😺

• A good luck object takes away the lowest d20 roll, so use the second-lowest. 
• A bad luck object subtracts half of the highest roll from the lowest roll.

(Rolled a 16 and a 10? Half of 16 is 8. 10 minus 8 is 2. Your score is a 2. You might even get a negative score! Rolled a 15, so half is 7.5? Round UP to 8! )

Players can decide to use their lucky object after any d20 roll to attempt to change their fate. A lucky object can be used only once. You don't find out if it's a good or bad luck object until after you opt to use it.



Figuring out why the luck is off balance is up to the GM. This is just a different motivation for players to start (instead of monsters, money, glory, honor, or a kidnapping). It also adds a twist to any campaign.

Ignorance is bliss, because if the players didn't notice the luck imbalance, they wouldn't be in this mess.

As a story prompt, the main characters just have everything going wrong. An inordinate amount of activities go wrong. Mention the luck imbalance and a plan to fix it early on, or you'll lose your audience. 

Hope Died #AtoZchallenge #rpg #fantasy #prompt

My theme is a month of prompts and ideas for tabletop role-playing games or prompts for fantasy writers.

For this campaign, the players are living in the time of a terrible ruler. The ruler has oppressed everyone, has killed any who openly oppose the new laws, has outlawed several races, sold a species into slavery as part of a trafficking network owned partly by the ruler, destroyed education for children, has cut off most communication, and has secretly teamed up with a wizard to create a plague upon the land to reduce the population.

The adventurers have to decide what they'll do. Try to kill the ruler? Take out the wizard? Help victims of slavery trafficking get free? Restore communication? What if one or more adventurer is from the outlawed race?

Plenty of fires to put out in this campaign. The big question is, how will the Game Master keep the players from quitting? Because part of this adventure is that it's hard. Really hard. And hope dies a little more with every roll. That's why the name of the campaign is:

Hope Died

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The following is NOT part of the challenge.
This is my damn blog and I'll include whatever message I please. :


What do we want?!? 

Healthcare for all. A guaranteed minimum amount of money for everyone here. Decent pay for the "life-sustaining essential workers" who survive the pandemic. A border patrol that doesn't follow a Nazi regime. An end to human trafficking. A leader who doesn't have a sexual assault record. Unions to make safer workplaces. A clean environment with real regulations so our food stops getting recalled. Clean water for the people of Flint, MI, and really everywhere. Protection for the rights of women and children. Addressing homelessness. A national minimum marriage age of 18 or 21, because marriage should require at least the same consent level as a legal contract or credit card. The best education for everyone in this country no matter what. A properly staffed government instead of firing people for positions that were obviously important and never freaking replacing them. Net neutrality! And the abolition of the Electoral College.

When do we want it?!?
Apparently 2024 or whatever. No rush. Let's see if any Americans are still alive in four more years.