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City creation
Tush Hog:
I'm really intrigued about the city creation process. I really enjoy little games within a game like house creation in Green Ronin's A Song of Ice and Fire and system creation in Diaspora. Dresdenizing my hometown sounds like a heck of a lot of fun - so how is it going to work? Does it happen before character creation, after or does it matter?
iago:
--- Quote from: Tush Hog on January 26, 2010, 02:50:01 AM ---I'm really intrigued about the city creation process. I really enjoy little games within a game like house creation in Green Ronin's A Song of Ice and Fire and system creation in Diaspora. Dresdenizing my hometown sounds like a heck of a lot of fun - so how is it going to work? Does it happen before character creation, after or does it matter?
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The primary way we suggest it is as a "wrapper" around character creation. You start on the city, you get a high level view of the power dynamics at work in it, the themes and threats that exist, then do a quick writeup of locations that will matter in the game, and determine a "face" (NPC -- though possibly a PC in some cases!) for each of those locations. Then you do character creation with the shared understanding you have of the city where your story will be told established. Then you finish it up.
Cities will also advance, at least a little, much like characters do. It's fun stuff.
I'll let my developers know about this question in case they wanna come in and get more detailed.
Tush Hog:
--- Quote from: iago on January 26, 2010, 02:57:13 AM ---The primary way we suggest it is as a "wrapper" around character creation. You start on the city, you get a high level view of the power dynamics at work in it, the themes and threats that exist, then do a quick writeup of locations that will matter in the game, and determine a "face" (NPC -- though possibly a PC in some cases!) for each of those locations. Then you do character creation with the shared understanding you have of the city where your story will be told established. Then you finish it up.
Cities will also advance, at least a little, much like characters do. It's fun stuff.
I'll let my developers know about this question in case they wanna come in and get more detailed.
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That does sound like a blast!
Hopefully, they'll drop by - I would really like to hear more about it.
Tush Hog:
In anticipation of the game I've been doing some reading to prep for the game. Karl Edward Wagner set a number of his horror stories in the East TN area. Heck, it's getting so bad I was listening to Rocky Top (it's like the natiional anthem around here ;D ) and I caught myself Dresdenizing the lyrics. I mean, who couldn't do something with this:
Wish that I was on ol' Rocky Top
Down in the Tennessee hills
Aint' no smoggy smoke on Rocky Top
Ain't no telephone bills
Once I had a girl on Rocky Top
Half bear, other half cat
Wild as a mink,
but sweet as soda pop
I still dream about that.
Rocky Top you'll always be
Home sweet home to me
Good ol' Rocky Top
Rocky Top Tennessee,
Rocky Top Tennessee
Once two strangers climbed ol' Rocky Top
Lookin' for a moonshine still
Strangers ain't come down from Rocky Top
Reckon they never will
Rocky Top you'll always be
Home sweet home to me
Good ol' Rocky Top
Rocky Top Tennessee,
Rocky Top Tennessee
8)
Ihadris:
I beleive there was two Narritive Control pod casts that dealt with City Creation as it was in the beta tests. Im sure its changed since but its still an interesting listen!
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