2025-10-01

Promptober 2025

I see many versions of Promptober running around this year. They're all lists of 31 prompts or excuses to make things every day for a month. I saw this one and decided to go for it. Let's go.

I'll be posting on Bluesky (and probably Mastodon, too) under the tag #TTRPGPromtober if you want to follow along as the posts happen. If you just want the summary, I've linked all the posts below. Enjoy!

  1. Free Space - The Free Space Movement's beginnings before interstellar travel.
  2. Spells - A lecture exploring why spells beat using raw magical power.
  3. Potions - Bottle of Plenty, which grows new potions from a single drop.
  4. Dark Woods - Darkwood, an exotic wood from Swords of Cepheus.
  5. Masquerade - A doppelganger game played at formal human soirees.
  6. Myths - The Lupercal, a cave where a she-wolf nursed twins back to health.
  7. Secrets - The Fountain of Secrets whispers a random secret for a copper coin.
  8. Spirits - What if your PCs could talk with the ancestral spirit of an animal?
  9. Thriller - Send your Traveller characters for a plunge down Thriller Canyon.
  10. Moon - The Daughters of Luna find secrets and pull strings to defeat oppression.
  11. Thalassophobia/Thalassophilia - Some quick fiction set in a shop on a water world.
  12. Liminal Space - What if your almost-dead PCs find graffiti in the afterlife's waiting room?
  13. Abandoned Locations - What will the party find in this random derelict structure?
  14. Stars - A random table for portents caused by hairy stars (aka comets).
  15. Do Whatever - Musing about transferring information between players and GM.
  16. Hauntings - Exploring the idea of emotional hauntings to inflict on your characters.
  17. Blood - The Bloodward Vial consumes blood to automatically trigger a protective spell.
  18. Sorcery - Adapting the Rule of Three from Master of the Five Magics for ritual use.
  19. Wizard’s Tower - Why do wizards tend to live in towers? Efficient arcane verticality.
  20. Lost Book/Lost Knowledge - A few highlights from Beneterra's dim and distant past.
  21. Sword in the Forest
  22. Summoning Circles
  23. Aliens
  24. Colossal Beast
  25. Cryptid
  26. Trail Cams/Found Footage
  27. Dreams/Nightmares
  28. Gods/Goddesses
  29. Flowers
  30. Harvest
  31. Halloween
Home page of the Promtober Project for 2025.

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