It's RPGaDay season again. Here's a link to the blog post with the current year's prompts.
Today's prompt is Prompt.
Well, first of all, you'll have to forgive me if not all my posts during RPGaDay2025 are prompt. Sometimes they need a little thought, sometimes real life will get in the way of them.
There's a thing in the OSR (and in that, I'd include early editions of Traveller) where a random table is suggested for encounters, events and more. I've only ever really used these for encounters (typically because they're there in a scenario, in D&D or early SF adventures like Mission on Mithril or Shadows) but I do like a good book of them because they're wonderful idea seeds for a GM. Reading through them gives prompts to your brain on how you could flavour or pitch an adventure.
Any of Sine Nomine's 'Without Number' books are great for this (and they have free versions), and there's other great material out there like Cubicle 7's Uncharted Journeys or Mythmere's Tome of Adventure Design. I have far too many of these books, and mostly they sit there, pregnant with potential for adventure. But when something emerges from them, it's wonderful.
These kind of books and lists are fantastic prompts for the mind. Anyone got any recommendations for others?
2 August 2025
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