The grand staircase: a simple room with eternally moving stairs
Homebrew Toys #10
This past weekend, I had the luck of being able to visit some friends at their place to continue a game that we have been playing sporadically whenever we can meet.
They live in another country, which makes every meeting and schedule of a new game difficult but also special, as until now, we have decided only to play in person.
We are playing Knave with an extra modified version of the “Stamina” mechanics of Grave, and some ideas coming from Mork Borg.
The setting we have created has “Dolmenwood” and the “Old World” (Warhammer fantasy) on the same continent, and includes the “Goblin curse” from Mork Borg as a recurrent topic on the adventures and, recently, players have found their way into the “Stygian Library”.
In our last game (we played three sessions the past weekend), the PC confronted someone that has been following them after some climatic events. This mysterious figure followed them to the “Stygian Library”, and to make thing a little spicier, between session I created an extra room-staircase based on Harry Potter’s grand staircase, so if they escaped or confronted their stalker, they will have to transverse a room that is eternally changing (the rest of the “Stygian Library” we played as intended, by generating the rooms, events, and details while playing, wituoput preparing anything in advance).
As we have a lot of fun while playing this confrontation in the staircase I thought that if anyone would like to include this type of location in their games, it would be a good idea to share it here. So here it is, the eternally changing staircase!
The eternally changing staircase
