2. Prompt
Ironically, the prompt, "prompt" does little to inspire me, although I have nothing against prompts per se. (If I did, I wouldn't be participating in #RPGaDay2025.) In general, I think prompts are more useful in blogging than in adventure design, but I think there is potential for their use at the game table as an aid in improvisation. I once used Story Cubes in a session of Ghostbusters to help me generate part of the story of a miscellaneous haunting the players were investigating (specifically, the name of a battle during the War of 1812). Story Cubes are specialized six-sided dice that serve as random prompt generators. With practice, I think I could learn to use Story Cubes rather effectively for a wide variety of role-playing purposes: rumors, songs, tales, omens, small talk, side quests, adventure seeds of any kind. The best thing about prompts in gaming is that they encourage you to explore new possibilities and surprise yourself. Prompts are good.
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