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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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PaladinCA

#15
December 05, 2010, 12:25:59 AM
My city isn't important in the real world, so it has remained outside the scope of any and all role playing supplements. It has appeared in two movies that I know of, although they changed the name of my city for the movie.

I made my city important in Shadowrun though. It was the home office of the Central Valley Agricultural Corporation a megacorporation with offices around the globe. Feeding the masses carries a great deal of power and profit, especially when there are global food shortages caused by a wide variety of sixth world factors.

GnomeWorks

#16
December 05, 2010, 11:19:00 AM
De Pere, WI - a suburb of Green Bay that I spent a significant amount of my younger years in - was mentioned in Contact.

I don't think GB proper gets mentioned much, though. And I'm not aware of any of the "bigger" cities nearby (or smaller ones, for that matter) being mentioned in any gaming stuff.
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Zachary The First

#17
December 05, 2010, 11:38:01 AM
As the site of Gen Con, Indianapolis has been used in countless one-shots in the past few years at the convention.

I'm pretty sure it is ruins in Rifts, though.
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Cranewings

#18
December 05, 2010, 12:22:02 PM
I'm not from Gary Indiana, though I've been there a few times.

I'm amazed at how Vampire TM used it so often. I can't remember the supplement that mentioned it, but it was well known enough to be mentioned in Knights of the Dinner table.

Then one day at a LARP in Fort Wayne I met the Prince of Gary Indiana. He was dead serious about his position to.

Peregrin

#19
December 05, 2010, 12:30:08 PM
I live in the Jersey burbs right outside of Philadelphia, and Philly is the new "home city" for Hunter: The Vigil.


Not sure of its significance in other games.
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#20
December 05, 2010, 12:31:06 PM
Oh, I'm near Muncie, Indiana, which is of course the home city for Knights of the Dinner Table!
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#21
December 05, 2010, 01:15:37 PM
Quote from: Cranewings;423378I'm not from Gary Indiana, though I've been there a few times.

I'm amazed at how Vampire TM used it so often.

I forgot Vampire: TM. Milan is an important place in the game and it is mentioned in the novels too. A Vampire honcho dwells in the Castello Sforzesco, IIRC.
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