This is the second post of my rather scruffy GM prep. It’s in note form and represents a Dungeon Crawl Classics funnel designed to kick off a Crawljammer style campaign. Crawjammer being an awesome Spelljammer style zine for DCC. It should really be fleshed out into its own setting, with a boxed set and everything. Instead you can get it here.
The pitch for Crashed Black Ziggurat from Outer Space is a space-going Chaos temple collides with a Crawljammer craft filled with space vikings and the whole thing crashes into your pseudo-medieval world. It’s leaking raw chaos into the environment and the smart money is it’s going to blow up, destroying everything. Your band of level-0 nobodies investigate the crash site in the hope of escaping their impending doom.
I realise of course that this is a step pyramid, not a ziggurat but the latter makes for a snappier title…
The point of this of course is to have the player’s 0-level peasants get come face to face with space vikings, chaos spawn, a weird alien squid, negotiate with an imprisoned demon and either escape through a magic portal or fly off into the aether in a stolen Crawljammer Drakkar. Lots of them will die along the way but that’s part of the fun.
I ran this over two sessions of about three hours and it resulted in the serving characters taking a portal to an arboreal world just as the Chaos Singularity exploded and engulfed their world in pure Chaos.