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Originally Posted by warhorse11h
A couple of older stories that could be updated or modified to introduce powerful artifacts into Cidri. Powerful, but transitory.
"The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms" The Twilight Zone
"The Doomfarers of Coramonde" Brian Daley
Both introduce modern armored vehicles and weapons with their crews into simpler worlds. In the one, the tank breaks down before it can interfere in the "Last Stand". In the second, the vehicle and crew are brought to an alien world to challenge a dragon. The first would be a temporal anomaly of some kind or perhaps a gate left open. The second, a spell gone either really right or really wrong.
In either event, while they could be enormously powerful for a short period of time, they would rapidly become immobile through lack of fuel or breakage and running out of ammunition or having the ammunition rendered defective. But still, it is interesting.
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And, it would fit in with the overall zeitgeist of Cidri, where you can find artifacts like a .45 caliber pistol and old ball point pens -- implying it's already happened more than once. I once did a campaign where it started with my players in a well-equipped hunting trip up to Montana (where they were taking a friend some reloading equipment and supplies
en route), and along the way they accidentally drove through a gate into Cidri...