Fairy Train

 

By Ewen Cusworth

One page dungeon contest 2022

No system or level given.

Premise: The characters have been hired as guards posing as passengers to insure the smooth running of the first journey for a train between the human world and the fae realm.

What do we get here?

 A single page gives 6 locations on a train.

 Usability/formatting

 There is the frame work or possibility for an interesting adventure here. Enclosed location and agents of chaos are both great for being a mad cap scenario around. Unfortunately I think you need to do just too much work on your own to build this into the farce it deserves to be because there is too little information to work with.

  I like the random event table and I suppose the panic system is fine, the problem is you are told to just roll whenever on the random event table which basically sums up the whole adventure. The writer is like 75% of the way there, they just get bored before finishing things. You need to be clear about when events should happen, how the time table of the adventure should run out. See A Rough Night at the Three Feathers which I have previously reviewed for how this sort of thing can be knocked out of the park.

 Now I realise on a single page it is going to be hard to get everything in but I think by cutting back the writing a bit it should have been possible. 

Portability

   You probably need a fairly high fantasy world for this one to work, it has a magic inter planar train as the core of the adventure. I suppose you could move it to a magical ship but that loses something of the very nature of how a linearly set up train constricts the scenario.

Recommendation

 Probably not, I'd love to see the peak version of this adventure though it could be totally bonkers in the best way.

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