Four picture prep

 

As I upload these sketches and as I type in the title of this blog post, I start to wonder if you could use only four pictures for all things in session - that is, that's the prep for the night.

The four pictures above would then - for the whole session - all represent:

• The adventuring party
• Random encounters
• Loot
• Plot hooks
• Room descriptions
• NPC personality traits
• etc

For instance, you need to roll for a random encounter. Roll a 1d4 and either just use that picture as is ("You meet a knight in a never before seen armour; the knight waves at you and greet you all with a monotonous "HELLO EARTHLINGS!"), or rip off the various pieces found in the picture ("You find animal horns and hair - lots of hair").

(Now I need to get back to work. Ta-da)

PuterPlane (an extremely tiny setting): landmarks: MATTERHERZ

MATTERHERZ

• Looks like mountains, but aren't
• Actual a short sound sample (22 KHz, 8 bit, mono) on pause
• Each Matterherz pseudo-mountain belongs to one specific being on the PuterPlane, be it person, animal or AI. Upon death, the sound sample will resume play, and thus change the landscape
• The sample is potentially loud; been known to knock people on their arse, and even make certain bots skip a cycle

Care Bears inverted

The bears live in the land of Care-a-lot, named ironically after their apathetic inhabitants.

Each bear embodies a spell.

Each bear controls a part of the land - and inhabitants - through that particular spell. The spell shoots out from their belly, a ritual wrongly called the Care Bear Stare. The Stare is actually a hollow-eyed greeting demanded of the inhabitants. Ignore the stare and face the lair, as the old saying goes.

The color of their fur dictates the bear's natural/favoured environment/realm.

#	Name	Spell	Fur color and realm
1	Bedtime Bear	Sleep	Blue; The ocean floor
2	Birthday Bear	Create food and water	Golden yellow; Dry desert
3	Cheer Bear	Prismatic spray	Pink; City of Flesh Golems
4	Friend Bear	Charm person	Orange; The abandoned theater
5	Funshine Bear	Hideous laughter	Sunshine yellow; Beneath the Burned Sundial
6	Good Luck Bear	Obscuring mist	Green; The Furthest Forest
7	Grumpy Bear	Storm of vengeance	Dusty blue; Twilight Towers
8	Love-a-Lot Bear	Fear	Light pink; Heart-shaped Shores
9	Tenderheart Bear	Detect hostile intent	Brown; The Mud Moraine
10	Wish Bear	Meteor swarm	Light teal; The village of winged houses

Each bear is a demigod.

No bear care for the others.

PuterPlane (an extremely tiny setting): monsters

ABC 80-WAYS2DIE

• Djinn-ish
• The tornado-like body is actually smoke coming from overheated circuits inside its monitorhead.
• It can only maintain this form for 30 mins before it shuts down and needs to cool for 10 mins
• When in cooling mode it looks like an ordinary puter, turned off
• The overheated smoke-body-mode is achieved by running this small program:
  
  10 GOSUB 20
  20 GOSUB 10

Keyed Cobra

• Snake-ish
• It attacks with its keyboardhead, trying to punch in command sequences to curse its subject
• Each successful hit will leave a mark on the targets forehead in the shape of a letter (key)
• When the last letter in the command sequence is typed into the targets forehead, the curse activates
• Some command sequence examples and their effects:
  
  FORMAT C: (memory loss)
  CHCP 864 (target changes language)
  

Tandy Tentacles

• Octupus/blob-ish
• Oracle
• Those brave enough may ask a question by typing it in reverse on its keyboard
• The reversed typing is due to the fact that the Tandy Tentacle reads from the other side of screen, much like a mirror
• Lives on cowhide

Commodoreberus

• Hound-ish
• Gatekeepers
• Each monitorhead runs its own program, that helps the creature overall
• One head runs the past events-program (e.g. remembering stuff)
• One head runs the planner (e.g. how to move its legs, shortest route to places, avoiding danger, etc.)
• One head runs the monitoring program (e.g. are we hungry? are we overheating? are we being attacked? are we hurting?)
• The three monitorheads shares the same processor (found in its body), so each head only gets 1/3 of the processing power
• Cutting off/terminating a head does not make two new ones grow out, but it will give the remaining ones more processing power (for example: from 1/3 to 1/2)