Vampire: The Requiem - Location, location, location

[Seven Words]

So....what city is this going to be set in?

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[variol son]

Hmmm, Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines was set in LA, and the first Vampire: The Requiem setting was New Orleans, so somewhere other than those two cities would be good.

New York maybe? Or Las Vegas?

[Dorian]

mmm Shame, cause new orleans has that cool voodoo vibe to it.

Somewhere with a cool old school vibe. New York works, something like Chicago would rock. Las Vegas has that whole city of sin thing going for it though.

Too many choices South would be good as they have the biggest ethnic range from what ive read. Of course Im hardly from the country like alot of you fellas so who knows

I have some ideas for characters, but depends on the sorta restrictions we have put on us really. I have one idea I like alot, especially if Chicago or New Orleans is the place

[Loredoctor]

Vampire: The Requiem has New Orleans detailed in it. White Wolf have released two books for New Orleans and Chicago. Now, my take is that I'm inclined to create my own city because I have some really fun ideas. The downside is that takes a lot of work, however I will be borrowing characters from some books to make it quicker. Plus, I plan to base a city off New York/Chicago and move it south or north (there's a reason I'm inclined to move it north, and Montresor knows).

I'm looking at having a city that's pretty damn big. We're looking at a vampire for every 50,000 people - and housing New York's population. I'm thinking a big metropolis, urban and industrial sprawl, dockyards, and a region like the Rockies to the north or west . . . for the Lupines (and no, I do not want to run an Underworld-like setting ). Don't be disheartened. I am planning for it be like a sandpit - you do what you want - secure your haven where you want it be, get lost in the urban jungle, or become caught in Kindred politics, follow your personal story, track down the strange horror in the disused warehouse, rescue the child . . . so many possibilities people . . .

However, I am absolutely open to suggestions. This is your city.

[Seven Words]

Detroit! Detroit! Detroit!

[Menolly]

...me thinks someone might have a slight unfair advantage playing in his hometown as the setting for a game, Seven...

but that is Lore's call, of course.

[Seven Words]

hey, any serious gamer will try and find every advantage they can...GOOD gamers will expect and accept hearing "no" a lot, and not whine and pitch a hissy fit.

[Menolly]

*covers grin while sitting back and learning*

[Dagon]

I like the idea of creating your own city, Lore. Leaves you much more room for storytelling, and erases the limits that using an existing city would impose.

[caamora]

Someone mentioned Las Vegas.

Very, very cool place to live with an exciting night life and plenty of international tourists.

Las Vegas would have great variety because you not only have a wide range of social classes, you also have many different nationalities. There would never be a loss of blood to drink and there is plenty of money.

[Seven Words]

Hey..Detroit works for all that...head north, and once you get past Port Huron, it's VERY rural...or NorthWest..near Flint is some national park forest.

[Loredoctor]

I may as well just have the whole of America.

[Vraith]

Why not Amerida...that alternative/futuristic world after the Canadiens invaded and made everyone say "eh" and drink Moosehead?
(where did I see that? God it was funny...)

[caamora]

LOL!!!

[Louis de la Forêt]

I like the idea of doing a "Gotham City" or "Metropolis" kind of thing. Something old skool with real gritty character to it. And all the really cool cities seem to be on the great lakes or Northeast US coastline. New York, Detroit, Chicago, Boston. (Though, Detroit is kind of an armpit.) So maybe invent one that's in that class... put it where Duluth is, in Minnesota, or put it where Cleveland or Buffalo are, along Lake Erie.

[Loredoctor]

I like the idea of doing a "Gotham City" or "Metropolis" kind of thing. Something old skool with real gritty character to it. And all the really cool cities seem to be on the great lakes or Northeast US coastline. New York, Detroit, Chicago, Boston. (Though, Detroit is kind of an armpit.) So maybe invent one that's in that class... put it where Duluth is, in Minnesota, or put it where Cleveland or Buffalo are, along Lake Erie.

You happen to be thinking right along my lines.

I was going to quote Bruce Wayne from Batman Begins, a line about how Gotham City was once great and is now decaying. That's the kind of thing I want. I want that Gotham - with that realism.

[Vraith]

or put it where Cleveland or Buffalo are, along Lake Erie.

That would definitely be a fictional place, since real people are fleeing this area in droves...and there aren't even any scary vampires.