Dungeons & Railroads II

Yesterday in the comments of my post on using Empire Builder as a mini-game to set up an underworld/megadungeon, Roger of Roles, Rules & Roles reminded me of Iron Dragon, the fantasy entry of the Empire Builder line of games by Mayfair. Though out of print, Mayfair still has a page on their website about the game and even provide a .pdf of the rules. Thus, one has a ready-made list of commodities to substitute while playing out another Empire Builder game to set up a fantasy world/underworld.

For those interested here is the list:

Ale
Armor
Arms
Cattle
Cloth
Dragons
Fish
Fruit
Furs
Gems
Gold
Hops
Iron
Ivory
Jewelry
Lumber
Pilgrims
Pipeweed
Potions
Sheep
Spells
Spice
Steel
Wands
Wheat
Wine

When compared to the North American game (which I used for my example in yesterday’s post) there are several direct commonalities (Cattle, Fish, Fruit, Iron, Sheep, Steel, Wheat) and several that are close enough as to be the same (Tobacco and Pipeweed; Tourists and Pilgrims; Wood and Lumber). The North American game also has a couple commodities that are fantasy appropriate that do not appear in Iron Dragon (Copper and Silver).