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iago:
More accurately, it is Baltimore in addition to Chicago.

We'll talk about Chicago, but in that case, it's serving the function of a book report: this is what Chicago in the Harryverse is like.

But Baltimore is our example of how to take a city you know (or sorta-know) and Dresdenify it.  So our "sample campaign" is Baltimorean, but our "NPCs from the books" writeups are Chicagoan, etc.

finarvyn:

--- Quote from: iago on October 06, 2006, 07:17:16 PM ---But Baltimore is our example of how to take a city you know (or sorta-know) and Dresdenify it.  So our "sample campaign" is Baltimorean, but our "NPCs from the books" writeups are Chicagoan, etc.

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Yes, and this makes sense from a RPG development standpoint because...

1. We don't want the RPG to conflict horribly with anything that Jim may write in the future. We have to just hope that he doesn't read the RPG and then decide to have Harry relocate to Baltimore 'cuz it's so cool!

2. The assumption is that players will make up their own Harry-like characters, and probably will not be playing Harry, so it doesn't need to be set there anyway.

3. If the campaign takes place down the street from Harry (or anywhere near Chicago) there will always be the feeling that Harry might appear and save the day as needed. This stinks of railroading and sucks the life out of the drama of the story.

So ... by developing Baltimore we produce a RPG that has a built-in setting, plus one can use the novels as a sourcebook for another setting. Kind of like "buy one, get one free...."

Darrington:
Oh there's no end to how happy I am to hear that the game's not being set in Chicago!  I already think it a bit cheap to be playing games in Chicago that don't jive with the books and can end up with Harry showing up in the end to save the day or even consult.  That's just... too easy.  I don't know.  Can't really explain why that bothers me so much.  But this is brilliant that someone else is being featured.  And glad it's not New York, 'cause then there'd be official word on somewhere I've already played for over a year and I'm sure none of it would fit.  I would be sad.

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thunderlips74:

--- Quote from: iago on October 06, 2006, 07:17:16 PM ---But Baltimore is our example of how to take a city you know (or sorta-know) and Dresdenify it.  So our "sample campaign" is Baltimorean, but our "NPCs from the books" writeups are Chicagoan, etc.

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Based on the "Designing Dresden" article about this, this might very well be the feature I am most looking forward to.

I think my vision for a campaign is to do a road game. The PCs are going to walk the Earth. Travel from place to place, have adventures. Be magical bums, as it were.

This goes double if anyone wants to be a Knight. Michael Carpenter is always on the road. Doesn't make much sense to keep them bound to one city.

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