PROMPT CARDS: GEAR — 10 Sci-Fi Manga Gadgets & Machines

Ten gadgets and machines from a slightly stranger future, each one waiting for someone to pick it up and get into trouble. Every card is a ready-to-use manga device: a name and a one-line hook, what it looks and sounds like, how it works in your story, the one flaw or cost that keeps causing problems, who uses it, three story sparks, and an image prompt for a close-up design shot for your sketchbook or your favorite image tool. You'll find a palm-sized drone that sits in on meetings for you, a work visor that labels everything (and everyone) with a task, a rental robot arm that remembers its past renters, a one-wheeled courier that refuses certain streets, a hologram coin that bargains a little too hard, an offline AI living in a battered lunchbox, and four more. There's a quick how-to page, a prompt that keeps your AI asking questions instead of writing for you, tips for keeping a gadget consistent from panel to panel, a note on keeping your designs original, and a blank card for the next machine that shows up in your head. It pairs nicely with the STORY, CAST, WORLD and VISUAL prompt cards, and works fine on its own too. Have a look around and see which one you'd want to hand to your main character.

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