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Is your city important in an RPG setting?

Started by RPGPundit, December 04, 2010, 03:01:05 PM

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December 04, 2010, 03:01:05 PM
For example, in the Robotech RPG, Edmonton was pretty much the site of Monument City.  Also, in the same RPG, Montevideo was the largest city in South America to have avoided the Zentraedi bombardment, and became the core of what would later be known as the Merchant Republic.

Ever seen your town referenced in an RPG?

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December 04, 2010, 03:03:02 PM
Fayetteville gets a mention in the Airships of the Ozarks supplement for Twilight: 2000.
 

Bedrockbrendan

#2
December 04, 2010, 03:05:16 PM
I am from Lynn, and referenced it once in my own module, but haven't seen it used in another game. Have seen Boston used though.

It always seems to help when a place you know well, is part of an RPG setting. When a publisher sets something in Miami, that becomes the Miami I've seen in movies. But if its set in Boston, its a city I can visualize much more clearly and realistically.

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December 04, 2010, 03:22:40 PM
Albuquerque Spaceport  for Gamma World 1e.
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December 04, 2010, 03:35:07 PM Last Edit: December 04, 2010, 04:18:27 PM by Pseudoephedrine
Toronto is a hellish zone inhabited by inhuman monsters and surrounded by a giant wall of fire in Tribe 8. Mississauga is a wasteland adjacent to it. Pretty accurate, I think. ;)

Edit: Also, it's Lazlo in Rifts and Waterdeep in FR, so it's not doing too bad in fantasy.
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December 04, 2010, 04:14:01 PM
Quote from: RPGPundit;423113Ever seen your town referenced in an RPG?

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Sadly not. In the French Hawkmoon supplement La France, for instance, the part of Lorraine where I used to live was blasted by a nuclear strike and became a mutant forest... all traces of my town were wiped out from the surface of the earth... :(

It seems like each time there was an opportunity to talk about Bar-le-Duc, it was carefully avoided by the authors, as some sort of cosmic conspiracy or something.

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December 04, 2010, 04:14:12 PM
No. I think I can recall only three media references to it, and only one is a game (Rifts make it the site of a Dog Boy production/training center.)
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December 04, 2010, 08:42:44 PM
I grew up in Chicago, so its been mentioned in several games. However, I'm currently living in a small coastal town in Mississippi, so I'm pretty sure it hasn't been mentioned. I do live very close to New Orleans, so that might count?
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#8
December 04, 2010, 08:58:35 PM
Seattle has been used in a few games.
Module for The Marrow project
Seattle sourcebook for (Cyberpunk or Shadowrun?)
come readily to mind...
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#9
December 04, 2010, 09:03:31 PM
We get mentioned in various games but I've never played in anything set here. I'm guessing any RPG take on my city would be irritating... based on what I've seen in other media.

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December 04, 2010, 09:14:55 PM
A whole sub-adventure of the "Horror on the Orient Express" mega-campaign for "Call of Cthulhu" is set in Milan.
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December 04, 2010, 11:09:34 PM
I used San Antonio (where I then lived) for most of my superhero games in the 80s and 90s.
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December 04, 2010, 11:28:36 PM
Colorado Springs has NORAD, a big deal in Stargate, Terminator--those near future games. I've read a couple scenarios in different games that featured Tesla's one-time lab here. Manitou Springs, adjacent to the west, figures prominently in Werewolf.
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#13
December 04, 2010, 11:56:03 PM
I have serious doubts Morgantown, West Virginia, US will ever be referenced in an RPG setting, much less be important to a setting.

Now Freeport! That's a city! :D
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December 04, 2010, 11:58:28 PM
There was Los Angeles By Night for V:TM. I need to pick a copy of that up sometime just for the lulz.
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