Comments on: Designing Dresden 1 – Choosing a City

By: Sahoni

Sahoni — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 20:06:09 +0000

Kinda blows that Seattle got thrown out, but I understand having played Shadowrun. Unfortunately that means I gotta write it up myself. Good challange for me I guess being new to the area.

There is a large Asian and Pacific Islander population in the area so I finally get my excuse to use my knowledge of folklore. Depression is high in the area, so there is the White Court. Now with Sasquatch sitings and The Native American lore of the area it should be a good game.

By: Wolfhowls

Wolfhowls — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:16:44 +0000

Good point on Baltimore…But I was hoping for Austin ..well because I am from Texas…Houston could have been an alright choice since it has the most hauntings in Texas. Tons of spooky stuff because of the smaller out lining cities. Galveston and Kemah have a ton of spooky history.

By: Jack Lynch

Jack Lynch — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 10:25:51 +0000

I take it there is the possibility of supplemments for different cities in the future? Would be nice to be able to expand to some of the other cities on the list and possibly some European ones as well?

By: Eyan

Eyan — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 14:03:08 +0000

I don’t think I’ve ever seen such random logic in choosing something from a list… I like it. Have to say Baltimore sound cool but Miami might have had something going for it. And as resident of England, I have to say “what? Nothing from this side of the pond? I reckon there’s potential for an expansion later on then…”

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 10:19:38 +0000

eh, I know its a bit late, but I was pulling for Richmond while reading, simply because its the closest to me… haha. I’m sorry you’re a yankee I have several college buds from Baltimore and I think it is a great choice.

I was thinking on London, eventhough you said you wanted an American city, but as with NY and LA, it is a bit big and spread out into so many different areas and neighborhoods that it wouldn’t be any eaiser.

DC would have been awesome, but as you said, without the whole government intervention and what-not it would be lacking

By: Chief

Chief — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 15:05:03 +0000

As a New Yorker, I would, in fact, find NYC a very interesting challenge. Besides, consider this– within NYC, there are the burroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, etc. You could just do a Manhattan setting or something.

If not, though, I do hope I’ll have some flexibility in customizing my own game outside of Baltimore. I’ve never been there, so therefore, it does not exist.

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 22:50:00 +0000

Just something interesting, using Baltimor, if you expand out in a 200 mile radius think of all the cities you hit, along with hitting some of the largest National Parks in the Eastern US. *chuckles* if you expand out and use that as a hub it could be quite interesting because you are not quite northern, not quite southern, but somewhere in between and there are alot of battlefields within a couple of hours drive.

Luke

By: Fred Hicks

Fred Hicks — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 02:37:28 +0000

As it happens, Matthew, that’s exactly what we’re doing. Baltimore is just being selected as the *example* of how to take a city you’re familiar with and convert it into a Dresdenified city.

You’re *supposed* to expand it to whatever you want — that’s the point of using Baltimore as an illustrative example.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 02:24:27 +0000

You know … that sounds great, but you should also leave it at the game master and the gaming crews’ discretion. Base it in Baltimore but allow it to go where it may. Inthe books there are a lot .. and I mean a lot of other wizards around that live in different cities. So let it be expandable to where we may go.

You may wnat to add little blurbs about some of the other major cities and maybe a “Whos, who?” in magic and the arcane around them.

By: Ashton Green

Ashton Green — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 19:02:20 +0000

At some point, when you’re looking to expand into other books in other cities, I really suggest you take a look at Vancouver. It’s got a really unique flavor.