Yes, the Ghost Ship adventure doesn't make it clear if the green diamond mine is played out. So If I decide it's viable, how many diamonds could they mine per month? 200-300?
And if I use Scourge, do I keep the original orange crystals, or convert them to green diamonds? Green diamonds would be easier. With the orange crystals, I would have to work out how much energy they put out. 

Ha! Good point. Will have to think up shenanigans to pull like that.
Also, is the population too high? Khromarium is the only city so far with 30K+ people. 
So should I bring it down to about 20K-18K? Explain that it's an up-and-coming settlement that people are migrating to. Because it's a defensible location, with resources that settlers and sponsors from Khromarium, the Vikings, and Kelts want. That and Khromarium wants to unload some of its poor and homeless population to. 

Journey to Obanhold

Last edited by Tikon2000 (8/23/2024 11:08 am)

Sounds a lot like the Kryptonite conundrum. Needing to think up a new color for the next issue, and whatever wacky hijinks you want it to cause.
For the orange crystals, I was thinking that a head-sized chunk could power the Amazon Skyship for a week. But it would fly at half speed, and not be able to power the laser crossbow at all. Being too high energy. Orange crystal being more intended for powering machinery. 

Tikon2000 wrote:

Sounds a lot like the Kryptonite conundrum. Needing to think up a new color for the next issue, and whatever wacky hijinks you want it to cause.
For the orange crystals, I was thinking that a head-sized chunk could power the Amazon Skyship for a week. But it would fly at half speed, and not be able to power the laser crossbow at all. Being too high energy. Orange crystal being more intended for powering machinery. 

 
That's the stuff! :-)

You could even just simplify it bit. Like 1 orange diamond power 10 miles of flight but it's incompatible for the other operations of a skyship.

Don't forget about the deleterious effects of green diamonds. Maybe orange diamonds give a +4 to the save initially, but it only requires like 4 hours of unprotected exposure. It might even cause a specific form of madness. It might make one not want to be anywhere near it, the opposite of green diamond madness :-)

I guess use the original module as an inspiration for that side of things.

Maybe a "primary" colored diamond won't work because the "compound" colored diamonds are a synthesis of powers.

Which may point to what the various colors do. Greens work best for this model of sky ship. So yellows and blues have powers that combine somehow in the greens, but not a direct synthesis. Of course.

Say yellows are related to motion, momentum, etc. Blue might be related to protection or whatever. Thus if oranges give greater range then reds could be the antithesis of blue, so maybe weapons and shielding doesn't work as well with the oranges.

Maybe transparent diamonds or black diamonds block the function of this model of skyship.

Tikon2000 wrote:

Ooh yeah that sounds awesome. A black disruption crystal. What other powers could it have? Localized anti-magic field? Though I think I'll nerf it a bit by having the crystal crack when you remove it from the other crystals it's disrupting. Oh wait, maybe I'll have it become a radiation grenade. Hmmm, how long should the shutdown last? 3 days? A week?

 
Sounds you are well on your way to figuring out wtf this does :-)

Oooh, those Land of the Lost links are awesome.

Thanks Allan.

Yeah, lots of great sources to use for inspiration out there.