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The Goblin Queen's War Wagon - Patrons' Edition
🕑 Added 2024-04-02 23:32:55 +0000 UTCIt's a little awkward when the party travels a long distance and nothing happens along the way. I mean, if they're going on a 300 mile journey, I don't want to just tell them, "Okay, you're there. Now what?" But I also don't want to involve them in some complicated adventure that's going to take 5 sessions, because that's a little more of a detour than I'm looking for.
Traveling encounters are almost their own category of adventure. Not so long that you have to spend more than a session or two on it, but enough to avoid giving the players the impression that they just teleported. And a little something more than, "2d6 giant rats cross your path, roll for initiative."
I like this map as a traveling encounter. A bunch of goblins in a Winnebago isn't something you see everyday and it'd make for a fun fight. But it's low commitment as well, so they can get back to reassembling the Sacred Crystals of the Ancient Ones or whatever they're up to. Simple, but not boring.
Someone should write a whole book full of traveling encounters. That'd be really useful. I know some of the people reading this write and publish adventures, so feel free to steal that idea.
Anyway, I'm going to make an alternate version of this map for patrons, which shouldn't take more than a day. It'll be a "de-goblinized" version for DMs who want to use this map for humans or... well, anyone else that isn't green. It'll have elephants up front and be moderately less filthy. All right, I'll be back with that soon. In the meantime, let me know what you think!
Download from Google Drive here (under NEWEST PATRON CONTENT).
Comments
Milby's Maps
Hey, it seemed like a natural choice. Plus, it's got kind of a dogsled look, which is kinda cool.
Jeffrey P
Hey I've got this fuzzy warm feeling because you used Worgs to pull the wagon!
Milby's Maps
Thanks! I hope it's gobliny (goblinesque?) enough for everyone. I'm still not sure if I went too fancy with it. But goblins do have the same average intelligence as humans (in D&D, at least), so I felt like it was believable enough that there might be a fairly sophisticated goblin clan out there that could build this.
Ethan, J.
I was wondering when you were going to get to this. This is great! and totally worth the wait!
