I've actually got LOTS OF THOUGHTS about railroads in D&D campaigns, and I am strongly convinced that a Rail Campaign would be awesome fite mehttps://twitter.com/nat1advice/status/1182316607453794304 …
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2/ two thoughts: 1) yes, the Medieval nature has bugged me. Castle walls of stone? Please. "Mud to Rock" spell means concrete-like construction. Etc. Need low magic. 2) nay to "burning hands" - yay to dwarf mined coal. Provides many more story hooks.https://twitter.com/NerdKing52/status/1182323143828017157 …
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Daniel Humphreys @NerdKing52Replying to @MorlockPNo reason you couldn’t run a high efficiency steam engine on burning hands spells. Which brings up something I’ve always pondered about fantasy settings. There’s no real reason for them to be medieval given magic and clerical powers can pretty much replace all modern tech.2 replies 0 retweets 13 likesShow this thread -
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3/ "entire sessions without combat" - something I'm thinking about a lot re the Aristillus RPG I'm working on.https://twitter.com/upstatefederlst/status/1182323725787631616 …
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4/ So you maybe get a Dune "Guild Navigator" political system. Dwarves can move trade goods, crops, and armies. Humans resent this, scheme against it. Elves hate rail lines through forests ... LOTS of interesting stuff here.https://twitter.com/NerdKing52/status/1182323954607968257 …
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Replying to @MorlockP
This would be easy to come up with conflict and great story hooks. You are hired as protection for the land clearing crew. You dynamite/fireball the wrong forest, patch of ground, and suddenly you're fighting over the fact your rail went over ancestral burial grounds...
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right! exactly the one I thought of! but also, trains get ambushed rockslides dragon attacks train transporting A from X to Y drops the cost of A in location Y bc new supply, so cartel in Y gets angry on and on and on
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Replying to @MorlockP
Also, classic train car mystery (Murder on the Dwarven Express). And, dang... escort quests.
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Replying to @ProfessorStrix @MorlockP
Train robberies by the local Trolls.
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competing dwarven kingdoms both running trains through the same place, go to war, hire mercenaries to sabotage each other
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And! Engineering problems - wrong gauge of track - whaddabout wrong class of magical propulsion - how the hell do you convince your engine imps to chooch when you have to switch train engines to the little blue engine that *couldn't*
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OR: riff off of Steven King's evil train https://darktower.fandom.com/wiki/Blaine_the_Mono … - what if they get semi-sentient. Bloody Thomas the Train, guys.
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