Dragonstar d20 vs Spelljammer d20

[TheWyrd]

Oddly enough, the thing that captured my imagination the most about DragonStar wasn't the ships (teleporation? Really?) but the mega highway. For those of you who don't know, or don't remember... at the heart of the Dragon empire was the thrown world (or whatever it was called) and connecting all of these conquered worlds was a however many miles stretch of highway with permanently active portals to the major worlds of the empire. I always imagined it as a harrowing experience getting onto those interdimensional roads with thieves trying to run you off the road and take your stuff. Periodically you'd get fantasy rubes who just snap at being ruled by dragons and end up standing in the middle of the highway slashing at oncoming cars with their swords.

I could make an entire game based on a land-based courier service in the DragonStar universe.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Oddly enough, the thing that captured my imagination the most about DragonStar wasn't the ships (teleporation? Really?) but the mega highway. For those of you who don't know, or don't remember... at the heart of the Dragon empire was the thrown world (or whatever it was called) and connecting all of these conquered worlds was a however many miles stretch of highway with permanently active portals to the major worlds of the empire. I always imagined it as a harrowing experience getting onto those interdimensional roads with thieves trying to run you off the road and take your stuff. Periodically you'd get fantasy rubes who just snap at being ruled by dragons and end up standing in the middle of the highway slashing at oncoming cars with their swords.

I could make an entire game based on a land-based courier service in the DragonStar universe.

Now that you remind me... my imagination is captured, too!

(Though maybe I am reminding something else - wasn't there also a space station that worked like this? Or am I just misremembering it and we are talking about the same thing?)

 

[Derren]

Now that you remind me... my imagination is captured, too!

(Though maybe I am reminding something else - wasn't there also a space station that worked like this? Or am I just misremembering it and we are talking about the same thing?)

Yes, there was also a space station detailed in the Guide to the Galaxy. Although, unlike the long road this station was not a ringway, but you could teleport from every part to every other part of it.