Comments on: Designer’s Corner: Making the Setting Your Own

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:03:39 +0000

I’m thinking how the fey courts of the Netherlands should work, considering that in immortal eyes a big part of it has only recently been stolen from the sea. And of course one of the oldest local cities has a whole dragon motive going (think gold encrusted fountains) as well as underground waterways running below the entire city.

By: fred

fred — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:09:39 +0000

Yep. Crazy variety and a very, very, very long history. Europe’s got to be fantastically dangerous, but also very calcified in a way. Ancient power does not like change.

By: gaelvin

gaelvin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:53:10 +0000

Granted that a lot of the best known faerie references today come from the Celtic nations (Ireland, Scotland & Wales), still, faerie lore is far from confined to those locations. Remember that the Celtic peoples migrated through Europe to the Isles, and left their influence on the cultures in their wake. Also, most of the Grim’s Faerie Tales originate from Germanic rather than Celtic culture. Toss in the Elves and Dwarfs from Scandinavia, and you’ve got a lot of European Faerie lore to work with.

By: fred

fred — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:21:07 +0000

@Ihadris, I’m talking about the whole origination of the Unseelie/Seelie Court myth that preceded the existence of the Dresden Files novels.

By: Ihadris

Ihadris — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:14:48 +0000

@Fred: I may be wrong but I would put it as originating from Ireland. The Aos Si seem to be the biggest influence on Dresdenverse’s faries; Harry’s godmother takes her name from them.

By: fred

fred — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:31:41 +0000

@Daniel, I'd start by making the faerie courts even more front and center. The vampire war is a big deal, but the Reds' seat of power is South America if we're reading the source material right. But, man, the faerie courts in our "real world" myth originated at least somewhat entangled with the idea of international politics between England and France, if I recall correctly. So I'd build on that a ton. I'd also expect Europe to be home to a lot of very, very old and very entrenched power. Colonization of the Americas is still a fairly new event from the perspective of the immortal...

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:15:51 +0000

I’m still wondering about how I can make the Dresden-verse more European. Sure it is very centric on the US, and it may sound arrogant, but running an occult investigators campaign in some of the oldest cities in the world has to hold a certain appeal,

By: Brad Ellison

Brad Ellison — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:22:58 +0000

I’m planning on setting my game in a modern-day version of Dashiell Hammett’s Poisonville, far away from the books’ setting, since my usual method is to just create enough distance between my campaign and the source material that I don’t have to worry about canon (which is why my Star Wars games are usually set two thousand years back in the time of the Old Republic). But now, I’m going to have to do some thinking about introducing some special guest stars from Chicago who’ve fallen to the dark side in interesting ways.

By: Skakid

Skakid — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:14:22 +0000

I gotta say the most fun one seems to be the Storm Front option of a supernatural consultant for Marcone.
Though I would have to wonder if an adventure log would wander into a grey area approaching fan fiction.

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:45:07 +0000

Or his old master kicks the bucket and he manages to get the position of blackstaff,hunts down those responsible for his death learns that the merlin could have stopped it but didn’t then harry decides the council leadership is too corrupt to be allowed to continue and kills the merlin causing a civil war within the white council.