RPGaDay 2025 #4 Message

 As a Xennial, one of the biggest jumps in technology that I've experience is in communications technology. Seeing younger generations that have grown up around the idea of having a device in your pocket that connects you to any person or data and allows you to broadcast the mundane details of your life to any potentially interested parties and if you become popular enough that can be your job is just a wild thing.

And we see that ease of communication in our media. All of our favorite superheroes have the ability to communicate instantly with their team mates as well as a home base to provide them with additional information and support. In D&D, magic items like sending stones can be used similarly. 

But what if the party had to communicate with the technology I had as a kid (or equivalent)? There are a lot of Stranger Things/Kids on Bikes-style games these days, so maybe it's exactly the technology they're using. Landline phones, so you had to hope the person you wanted to reach was near the phone you were dialing. If some else answers, you had to take the time to have a polite if perfunctory conversation and maybe ask them to take a message for when the person you were trying to reach gets back. Long distance calls were expensive, so it had to be important for you to make one. If you had to get in touch with someone a long distance from you, mail was typically cheaper, but took more time.