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Simon Hogwood:
If you lived there at one point, there's no reason why you couldn't.
Heck, I'm considering putting together settings for Scotland and Cleveland, and I've never been to either. ;)
JohnPatrickMCP:
Hey all,
It was mentioned earlier in this post but I am already starting to put together some material for Detroit as a setting. In the words of Michael Bay "No city does urban decay like Detroit". Plus there are a fair amount of local urban legends and spooky places. Lets face it no matter how much they try to slap a pretty face on it detroit is still a place you don't really want to be alone after dark. In the dresden files universe I see Detroit as what Chicago would be like without people like Harry and company keeping evil in check. After the start of the war most of the Red Court vampires from Chicago relocated to Detroit and turned the city into a vampire stronghold. A few brave, stupid, or powerful members of the council still live in the city trying to keep an eye on the vamps and hold back thier takeover of the city. Meanwhile a secret society of mortals live and fight on the fine line between our world and the world of the supernatural. Plus it has haunted cemetaries, indian burial grounds, a demonic herald of chaos and those are just some of the supernatural threats lets not forget dirty cops, crooked politicians, organized crime and gang violence. Detroit's got it all.
brenatevi:
How about Jerusalem? Now there's a city with lots and lots of history, having been sacked and occupied many, many times. It is also one of the most important cities to three major religions. I also think it would be a great starting point for magical archaeological expeditions (finding buried ancient cities where old gods sleeps.)
Lanodantheon:
Jerusalem... I can't even begin to wonder. This is one of those places where you have a great potential to piss off your friends if you're not all on the same page. How a GM treats this city would communicate a lot about the GM. It's all dependent on exactly what they did to explain it. It could reflect a dim view of humanity or a hope that that situation could turn out alright someday. IT all depends.
I think it could go one of 3 general ways:
The first way Dresden Files Jerusalem could go would be that the magical world is in chaos there, with the magical world barely able to keep up. You think a suicide bomber is a b***h, try his his ghost. That, and the psychic energy from all of the fear, hate and anger around the whole region would only spur the other magical force in the region, Faith. I'd be surprised if the Temple of Solomon didn't disintegrate any vampire or other ghoulie that set foot in it. Not to mention, Fundamentalists are scary enough, now think about Fundamentalist Wizards with Thaumaturgy....
This route of it as a hotspot could go further in one way with the Angels of the region are still crusading in a part of the Nevernever reflective of Dante's Divine Comedy, Hellgate London, Diablo and Little Nicky...j/k. But, it could also be a hotspot if it was interpreted as a city abandoned by the magical world and by the gods, but that is just one possible interpretation.
The second way Jerusalem could go is a common technique in the Dresden Files, Playing against type. Jerusalem is a center of politics in our world, in the Magical one, "Meh..." It could be a magically dead zone because of all the Faith magic combined with all of the emotions. That route would be a downer though.
The third way is actually logical. Jerusalem actually would probably be a better candidate for a Magical Casablanca/Berlin than a podunk town since the political sturggles could hide anything in it. Jerusalem as Accorded Neutral Ground would be fun because of the reasons you play a city like that, it's factioned. A main reason it could be accorded neutral territory is because there's so much magic in it. If you wanted to take it further, have magic banned within city limits under penalty of death because drawing from it is like having infinite supply of uranium bullets that explode. When something magical does go down in Magical Jerusalem, it's big.
I personally wouldn't run a game here (Not my kind of place and I don't know my way around) but if I did visit ingame, mine would be a mixture of all of these places.
That being said, I wonder about 2 other cities: Vactian City and Mecca...
Torvaldr:
Well, no one else brought it up so I will. Staying in the US base it in San Francisco, lots of different communities there to borrow mythology from rather than staying with any one culture. Can you say Dresden meets Big Trouble in Little China? It's all in the reflexes........... ;D
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