Oh g_ds, it’s that time again. The gretchlings are released.
The rules for GLOGtober ‘23 are the same as last time, but I will repeat them here:
- The prompt list (this post) will be released in September, giving time for people to write their content to post in October.
- There are seven d6 tables, each containing potential prompts. These d6 tables were created by some of the top contributors to GLOGtober ‘22. Each “challenge” you roll a d6; this is your prompt. If you don’t like it, I dunno, just pick something I guess.
- Even though the title references the GLOG, your contributions don’t necessarily have to be related to the GLOG. If you want to write a MÖRK BORG background or Troika! adventure based on one of the prompts, go for it. The point of GLOGtober is that you’re making RPG material.
1. Failed Gods and their consequences.
2. The deep ocean, and the things that survive in its crushing pressure and frigid darkness.
3. Atlantis-type situation but in reverse. It goes up instead of down.
4. Magic items that are unintentionally also magic weapons.
5. Cool things to replace your eyes, teeth, and fingernails with.
6. Parables and proverbs with weird morals.
Challenge 2 (Locheil)
1. Three options for a class that has options (i.e., three Duelist styles, three Saintmaker saints, and so on).
2. A short history of a mad king and the things he did.
3. Random encounters on an ancient road.
4. Information about a small, local god.
5. A glance at a city that should never have been built.
6. Notes about a family of gods.
Challenge 3 (semiurge)
1. Modern horror shotgun scenario.
2. Something about formal violence - duels, gladiators, John Wick-style assassins, etc.
3. Animal-people, for an animal you've never seen made into animal-people before.
4. A list of or generator for cursed items that are more interesting than a -1 sword.
5. Adventure, location, character, item, class, or whatever else based on the name of your blog.
6. Come up with a grimoire with some unique spells, a story behind it, perhaps some trap or riddle to figuring it out, etc.
Challenge 4 (SunderedWorldDM)
1. Masks, mosques, or musks.
2. Potions and how to brew them.
3. An adventure with only one monster, one you made up.
4. An adventure keyed only in haiku.
5. Content for someone else's hack/class.
6. Essential, non-RPG reading for any GM.
Challenge 5 (xaosseed)
1. Treasure routes & vessels.
2. Unusual corpse preservation methods.
3. Not intentional traps, just very unsafe.
4. Cultural gathering places for nonhuman fantasy folk.
5. Minor planar conduits and planar backwaters.
6. Famed sites of disastrous battles of the Blood War.
Challenge 6 (metalsnail)
1. Paper minis.
2. Lairs.
3. Airships.
4. Gardening.
5. Puzzle boxes.
6. Fairy tales.
Challenge 7 (CatDragon)
1. Take an old post of yours that you don't like and renovate it.
2. Dwarves.
3. Anime-inspired content.
4. A cryptic lorepost.
5. A post about a weird train.
6. Vampires.
