Episode 29: Wizard Wagon

Miria, Edryk, and Kale finally reach the place where the All-Knowing believes there is a means to travel to the planes. The object they discover is far stranger than anything they could have imagined.

In this session I reference the amazing role-playing game Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG (goodman-games.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/2…) from Goodman Games (goodman-games.com). DCC catches the strange psychedelic vibe of the books that inspired D&D – and Swords Against Madness – better than any other game on the market.

It also borrows some rules for planar travel and plane shifting from Advanced Dungeons & Dragons and Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition to fill in the gaps in the Swords & Wizardry rule-set.

Magic Item: The Wizard Van

The Wizard Van is an enchanted 1974 Ford Econoline with air-brushed fantasy art on the sides and comfortable couches in the back. It is fuelled by magic-user spells. Each level of spell cast into its Flux Capacitor provides two hours of fuel. The van can shift to the Astral Plane by using 2 hours of fuel. It can also fly at 55 miles per hour, but has a ceiling of 50ft. and consumes twice as much fuel.

Some Inspiration

I mentioned the song Wizard Wagon by Glitter Wizard (glitterwizard.bandcamp.com); if you want to check out this awesome (if explicit) song, you can hear it here (open.spotify.com/track/6EfEYhgMVNZ2FuJ1uRO3a6)!

Cast

This episode includes performances by:

• Jon Cohen from Tale of the Manticore (taleofthemanticore.com)

• Owen Rideout of The Boy in the Submarine (boyinthesubmarine.stormheadproductions.ca)

Music in this Episode

From the Free Music Alliance:

• King Edward (freemusicarchive.org/music/mr-smith/a-new-roar…) by Mister Smith (CC-BY) from the Free Music Archive

AI Generated Pieces:

• Fire up the Wizard Van (suno.com/song/5d3a5d0c-911a-491a-8a7f-d0ab8bf0…) by Doughnut Elemental (That’s me!)

From Pixabay:

• “Stylish Blues Rock (Wild West) (pixabay.com/music/rock-stylish-blues-rock-wild…)” by Brightest Avenue

• “Outlaw’s Reckoning (pixabay.com/music/modern-blues-outlawx27s-reck…)” by Moodmode

• “Night Detective (no beats)” (pixabay.com/music/crime-scene-night-detective-…) by Amaksi

• “Deep Forest (pixabay.com/music/ambient-deep-forest-335081)” By NNChannel

• “Psychedelic Atmospheric Dream Guitar” (pixabay.com/music/ambient-psychedelic-atmosphe…) by Sonican

• “Acidcore (pixabay.com/music/techno-trance-acidcore-1-337…)” by Jumping Bunny