Wednesday, September 11, 2024

GLOGtober '24

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    The gretchlings are coming! The gretchlings are coming! Hide your valuables and your ideas, for the gretchlings are coming! The rules for GLOGtober 2024:
  • 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 ‘23. 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.

Challenge 1 (Walfalcon)
1. A connection between disparate worlds.
2. A premise inspired by an album.
3. Anime-inspired content.
4. A city where you can dungeon crawl.
5. An explanation of where sentient robots fit into a setting that previously did not have sentient robots.
6. Some spooky Halloween monsters.

Challenge 2 (CommonUse)
1. 300 word hack.
2. Patrons: their source of power/wealth and their goals in using the party.
3. GLOG-class formatted as an acrostic using the English alphabet.
4. Proverbs or sayings for a non-human race and what they are trying to teach.
5. Collaborate on a post with another person who got this result.
6. The name of the guild which protects the farthest reaches of civilization, some rumors about them (some true, some legend), and one NPC from the guild the party might meet.

Challenge 3 (Vivanter)
1. A class written for a specific player in one of your games (past or present).
2. Feuding poets and their ruinous verses.
3. A monster described only through conflicting folklore and rumor.
4. Real world artwork that inspires your RPG practice.
5. An encounter table for domain-level play.
6. A downtime activity that you do in real life, but you've never seem rendered in a game.

Challenge 4 (Shadowfray)
1. Infrastructure & Logistics.
2. Esoteric Orders and Creeds.
3. Candles, Pottery, Bricks, etc.
4. Death & Divinity.
5. Origin Myth of a Monster.
6. Sacred Body Horror.

Challenge 5 (Phlox)
1. A procedure relating to a city.
2. Race-as-class.
3. A fate worse than death.
4. Two complimentary monsters.
5. Pirate ship.
6. Oracles and sages.

Challenge 6 (xaosseed)
1. Magical 'hotspot' patterns.
2. "I fell through the floor, and there I was..."
3. Dungeon Molluscs and other Gygaxian naturalist evolved adaptations.
4. Big picture background conflicts.
5. Secrets of the stones.
6. Fantastic transports.

Challenge 7 (TheFirstGokun)
1. Romance.
2. MMORPG.
3. Alien Invasion!!!
4. Physical Game Pieces.
5. Tapestry.
6. Color.