Nearly missed this completely, but a day late isn’t too bad. Unlike last year when I missed it completely and ended up doing it much later in the year all by my lonesome.

This will be my third year doing #RPGaDAY. I like the creativity it inspires in me. It certainly isn’t for the views and followers.

So that you have a heads up on what I’ll be rambling on about for the next month below is the graphic showing the themes we have to inspire us.

So there will be two posts today, one for yesterdays theme and the other surprisingly for todays.

The theme for yesterday was Scenario.

Unless you are following a published campaign such as the excellent WotC ones for D&D 5e. Probably one of the hardest things to come up with no matter which system you are using are scenarios.

Luckily there are lots of sources of inspiration out there that can fire the imagination.

In a recent post I listed 5 basic quest models that could be used as the basis for a scenario.

In the past I have used my Map & Dice Playing Cards, and the Deck of Many Dungeons to generate a map that acts as inspiration for a scenario.

Sometimes I “borrow” ideas from other media for inspiration. Look at my notes here that I made to remind me at a later date of some ideas for some horror scenarios.

Another tool in my arsenal for generating scenario ideas is these quest decks I backed as a Kickstarter. I didn’t get them all (finances and all) just those I thought I could get the most usage out of.

There are lots of sources of tables to roll against to generate scenario ideas. It could be the Roll & Play book, the DMG, the Sly Flourish Adventure Generator, the Tome of Adventure Design just to name a handful. Actually before I forget there is a rather nice system in the Android: Shadow of the Beanstalk sourcebook for the Genesys RPG for generating scenarios.

One or two of the above suggestions can be used on the fly at the table if need be. But all work really well when preparing your next session.