The Sierra Express (Ashcan)

A one to two shot adventure for Knights of the Road (https://bordercholly.itch.io/the-knights-of-the-road), a game that is related to Into the Odd and Cairn and all those other games.  

Set in an alternate version of the 1920s in the US. The players are hired to carry out a heist, in which they steal a mysterious new invention on board a passenger train. Unbeknownst to them, others are after this prize, and ongoing tensions between the railway union and the railway owners are about to erupt into open conflict. Also, is that a dust storm on the horizon? 

In this adventure, the two-level train acts like a dungeon, with numerous ways of traversing it. It's a relatively social adventure, with three major factions and a general expectation that people on trains don't just start shooting each other (a norm that's likely to be broken by the end of the adventure). It contains some fun facts about the 1920s and some rather implausible and unsafe train design.

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An early version with minimal, mostly placeholder art (public domain, or by me), extremely simple maps, and no editing.

It otherwise should be complete and playable.

I hope to eventually do a proper release of this, hopefully with physical copies, for which I will charge money, so to avoid complicating things I won't accept money now so that nobody ends up buying it twice. I probably will continue to have a text only version available for free.