Day 17 Prompt: Intensity
Week 4 Prompt: Instinct
Weekday Prompt: Fair of Face
We’ve reached Day 17 of the RPGaDAY 2026 Challenge and I had to bounce a few ideas off the wall before I could come up with something for the prompt of “Intensity”. And since it’s a Monday, we also get a new weekly prompt of “Instinct”. The poem brings us back to “Fair of Face” which still doesn’t help.
Ya know what, I think we need to expand more on our cyberpunk setting that we started with the Day 5 entry of Burden. Let me know if this sparks any ideas for your Paranoia, Cyberpunk Red, Modern Necessities-Cutting Edge, Shadowrun or Cyber Generation.
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I do appreciate the feedback that I’ve been getting on some of these posts. Some was good-natured ribbing (yea, you got me) and I got a constructive suggestion on my Endurance post. And I really like the “Wow, I’m impressed” type posts. It makes me think that I’ve been successful in planting a few story seeds out there for other gamers to use. I’ll probably talk about all the feedback in my after-action report on/around September 1st. Keep them coming, I really appreciate it.
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