Here’s a fun thing I had in my game last night that could be repurposed for other games.
A nobleman was moving an important object. First, he put the object in a case with a dimensional puzzle, so it could not be forced open and had to be unfolded in the Ghost Field.
Then he put it in his coach, with four guards inside, two on top, and two on the buckboard. The coach had thick walls and gun ports, with crenelation on top to provide cover for shooters there. It looked somewhat like a watchtower on wheels.The guy riding next to the coach’s driver had a golf-bag style boot with a rifle and a blunderbuss, so he’d have the right tool for the job if they were accosted by scoundrels.
Pulling the heavy coach was a brace of war goats. Over 5′ at the shoulder, they had metal-plated and gilded horns and hooves. Also, their shaggy and unruly hair was braided into artistic cornrows that followed the contours of their muscle. With heads the size of a human torso, sporting brutal horns, these unruly and deadly monsters provided both pull and security from the front.
Add some rearguard agents on foot, and perhaps a couple scouts to go ahead and look for ambush, and you have a pretty secure transport.
So! Put a treasure in the lockbox and slap your noble’s coat of arms on the side, and you’ve got a great rolling target for your scoundrels to hit.
I love the idea of a hardened, moving target. You thought it was difficult to avoid bluecoats before!
Nice! I’ve used the “armored wagon with turret guns” as well. I think this was before goats were canon (or I didn’t notice it), so it was powered by hanging electroplasmic wires like an electric bus.
My first thought however, is tip it over. Second is drive it into the sea. ..
Throw ball bearings on the road under the hooves to make the goats stumble and fall…
This is great.
John Perich a super rich noble could afford an electroplasmic wonder coach. 🙂
These days you could just make it a large sized Hull with an internal carriage.
Surely being transported via the internal workings of a possessed piece of machinery won’t cause any long-term issues to the noble doing so! 😀
(Spoiler: Totally will, and it’ll be super fun to mess with the PCs that way!)
mwa ha ha ha
Bleat! War goats with corn rows. AWESOME!