Sunday 24 March 2019

Boarding now for parts unknown

Skerples has had a remarkable idea.  A dungeon in the form of a train that never stops, driven by a mysterious Engineer, staffed by inhuman Conductors and composed of carriages picked up across the multiverse.  He'd like stocking it with carriages to be a community effort, and reached out via his blog for submissions.  One of the example carriages is a giant cannon designed to fire goblins in padded suits at other cars, currently on fire.  The fire is inching its way towards the magazine, but the goblins are too busy fighting among themselves to do anything about it.  The other is a mouldering library operated by a mocking sphinx who only collects unreliable reference books and bad fiction.

My submission is a brew car operated by undead-hunting monks.  Staking vampires is no job to be doing sober, now is it?

Skerples is the creator behind Tomb of the Serpent Kings, reckoned to be one of the best introductory dungeons for newcomers to OSR-style play.  I confess, I've wanted to be part of a community-driven dungeon design since I first started reading OSR blogs last year, but usually showed up at the wrong time.  This time I'm in at the start.  Creating that carriage was a fun use of an afternoon.

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