Pbartender
First Post
RG suggested, "3. Think cruise ship, more than train," which got me thinking. I've not really looked at Eberron, but from what I've heard, the population is pretty sparse and scattered... Wide expanses of essentially wilderness, yes?
Consider a train-wreck.
The cause could be anything... Ill-kept rails. An poorly-timed accident by the conductor. Bandits or rebels hoping to stop the train for robbery or ransoms (but stopping it more effectively than they expected. ... whatever. The comes to a cataclysmic stop, and no amount of field repairs will get it going again.
On top of it all, the crash happens along a rarely-traveled spur line, and in an exceedingly dangerous piece of wilderness. The battle for survival begins.
The best thing about it is that you can toss it in as a complication on top of some other plot... Robbery, murder, etc.
Consider a train-wreck.
The cause could be anything... Ill-kept rails. An poorly-timed accident by the conductor. Bandits or rebels hoping to stop the train for robbery or ransoms (but stopping it more effectively than they expected. ... whatever. The comes to a cataclysmic stop, and no amount of field repairs will get it going again.
On top of it all, the crash happens along a rarely-traveled spur line, and in an exceedingly dangerous piece of wilderness. The battle for survival begins.
The best thing about it is that you can toss it in as a complication on top of some other plot... Robbery, murder, etc.