Hidalgo inspired adventure [Archive] - Wizards Community

Hidalgo inspired adventure [Archive] - Wizards Community

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billybob79
08-02-05, 03:34 AM Hi,

my party has almost run through the original eberron adventurers. I am planning on a plot with similarities to hidalgo, maybe a 6000 miles race through khorvaire, sponsored by the wayfarers, dangerous countrysides, ambushed by competitors, attacked by "old friends" like Garrow, Scimitar...

but I am not entirely sure on transportation, all on horses or different ones like, don´t know the proper englich title, 80 days around the world?

any tips would be nice.
Missekat
08-02-05, 03:50 AM Thats a great idea for an adventure.
As to your question:

Why not hand each competitor a given amount of money? Then they can decide for themselves what transportation they want to use. It should not be enough money to allow them to buy Teleport, or an airship for the entire journey, but just enough to have them choosing between horses, stretches of lightning rail or airship, or maybe something else. Force them to be creative, so the transportation problem is part of the game.
billybob79
08-02-05, 02:44 PM hmm, does somebody know if explorers handbook features new prices for eberron specific travel possibilities (lightning rail, orien trade route, airships, elemental galleon) because i think the prices presented in the Campaign setting are to hard to afford.
LewisLlynn
08-02-05, 03:50 PM Make the race be across Valenar (although that's probably a lot shorter of a distance...whatever). It's desert-like, it's a foreign culture, and, best of all, IT'S A HORSE CULTURE. What more could you want?

And, in answer to your question, Explorers Handbook will have more detailed prices for transportation options, though I don't know if they are lower.
Kid SixXx
08-02-05, 04:56 PM If you decide to do something of a smaller magnitude that can still be fairly perilous, there is always The Race of Eight Winds (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/ebds/20041220a), which appeared in a Dragonshard article last December.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
billybob79 08-02-05, 03:34 AM	Hi, my party has almost run through the original eberron adventurers. I am planning on a plot with similarities to hidalgo, maybe a 6000 miles race through khorvaire, sponsored by the wayfarers, dangerous countrysides, ambushed by competitors, attacked by "old friends" like Garrow, Scimitar... but I am not entirely sure on transportation, all on horses or different ones like, don´t know the proper englich title, 80 days around the world? any tips would be nice.
Missekat 08-02-05, 03:50 AM	Thats a great idea for an adventure. As to your question: Why not hand each competitor a given amount of money? Then they can decide for themselves what transportation they want to use. It should not be enough money to allow them to buy Teleport, or an airship for the entire journey, but just enough to have them choosing between horses, stretches of lightning rail or airship, or maybe something else. Force them to be creative, so the transportation problem is part of the game.
billybob79 08-02-05, 02:44 PM	hmm, does somebody know if explorers handbook features new prices for eberron specific travel possibilities (lightning rail, orien trade route, airships, elemental galleon) because i think the prices presented in the Campaign setting are to hard to afford.
LewisLlynn 08-02-05, 03:50 PM	Make the race be across Valenar (although that's probably a lot shorter of a distance...whatever). It's desert-like, it's a foreign culture, and, best of all, IT'S A HORSE CULTURE. What more could you want? And, in answer to your question, Explorers Handbook will have more detailed prices for transportation options, though I don't know if they are lower.
Kid SixXx 08-02-05, 04:56 PM	If you decide to do something of a smaller magnitude that can still be fairly perilous, there is always The Race of Eight Winds (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/ebds/20041220a), which appeared in a Dragonshard article last December.