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#1 thenewblack Aug 30, 2009 9:46:24	Just picked up ECG and reminded me of this great one shot Eberron I ran and thought it could give some other people some ideas.  The PCs in the original game: A Half-orc barbarian - A railroad worker, who is as dumb as a rock but just as tough as one. A Human Hexblade - The Overseer of the project. Member of House Orion. And a Half Elf Bard - Sent by House Orion to check up on things in town.  This takes place in some unnamed boomtown in a sparse desert region somewhere in Khorvaire. The characters are overseeing/working on an expansion of House Orion's lightning rail. In the middle of all this the supervisor (one of the characters) gets word (from a House Sivis Message Stone operator - think: Old timey telegraph operator with a white beard and curly mustach) that up ahead on the tracks a Lightning Train gets hijacked by a gang of Hobgoblins and is making their way towards the boomtown. Unbeknownst to them...the track runs out.   The PC's being the only real capable heroes, hopped on a small air-elemental powered skiff so they can quickly reach the incoming train which was about 15 miles away from the town. And once they get to the train they have to jump untop of one of the cars to make their way in. There are several different ways you can go from here.... - fighting your way through each individual car trying to save onboard passengers. - A cool dramatic battle untop of a moving train car. Making Athletics checks when appropriate to jump across the gaps. - impose a time limit, and have the heroes try and get to the engine room in time to stop the train before it crashes... Anyways I guess it can be used as an Adventure hook...or whatever. I thought it was real fun.
#2 skrapsan Aug 30, 2009 15:02:05	Aaaaand there it was safely copied into my DM bag of tricks. Thanks for the Idea mate.