So does that mean our weekly group will get to playtest it? Also, is the system going to be unique, or is it based on something?

Yeah, I'm all for playing the Dresden system. We could use it as filler between SR4 and WTF. It might help take the edge of "Oh shit gotta get the game ready!" panic off of Kristin.

I don't get the feeling the Burning alpha will be so much "playing" as testing out bits. I think after the weekend Fred will release some material for us to chew on it bit will hardly be complete.

That said I'm really exited about taking whatever Evil Hat has out for a spin, and I'll totally post about it here.

Some of the DFRPG chapters just dropped. I'm supposed to be working. I'm going over Dresden Files files instead.

I'm ready. Let's rip some shit up.

I'm reading through them now. Fred has done some really cool stuff with this.

We need to figure out when we can start, as I'm guessing it needs to be soon

I'm reading Storm Front right now. Also, city creation looks wicked.

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Posted By: wildduckI hate spoilers.

Agreed.

I would like to help playtest, but if my schedule fucks things up too much, feel free to play without me. That being said, what are you guys doing Monday night?

New York would be fun, but there's probably going to be a lot built there. Corpus Cristi, Texas? Get both the Texan flavor, along with red necks, the beach people, and tourists.

I'm digging the idea of a coastal city. Not totes sold on Texas. Consider Savannah, Georgia for the Southern liberal feel. Huntington Beach for a surf-heavy vibe. Maybe Oakland for its proximal familiarity?. Or head inland a bit and build a magical Eugene, Oregon.

Our city could be a pastiche of various US coastal cities with analog neighborhoods and landmarks.

Posted By: ShaunPortland would be good, too.

Only if we gots to deal wif the hippies. I hate dem hippies.

This is awesome. I hadn't realized it while we were creating the city, but The 40 Mile Loop actually goes around almost the entire city (compare that map with the google map of Portland). That means it really can be an effective circle of protection for the whole city.

Also, the real Loop isn't actually complete, though naturally in the game it is. Dawn had a pretty cool suggestion when I was telling her about it. The yellow parts of the loop on the map might not be "officially" complete, they might be areas that the magical denizens of the city have helped complete.

I was in Portland in hmm, 2002? or thereabout for a week, visiting a 'net friend. I stayed downtown for most of the trip, with a day off to go to the zoo and the Japanese Gardens. Anyway, I vaguely remembered Melly mentioning something about tunnels so I Googled. Here's a link to check out.

The fun bits are towards the bottom under "Portland, Oregon: A City's Shady Past" and "The Portland Underground: Shanghai Tunnels". I was especially amused by the "blood money" bit (Stopping for a drink in such notorious establishments as Erickson's Saloon, the Snug Harbor Saloon, and the Valhalla Saloon, people became unsuspecting victims who found themselves beneath the streets in tunnels and being carried out to the waterfront and sold for "blood money". ) after what Sean said about you guys putting vampires down at the waterfront. It's almost like you knew! ;) Maybe Portland was subconsciously...influencing you.

Oh, plus there are ghosts about in Oldtown ("Northwest Paranormal Investigations" has proclaimed that the shanghai tunnels are the most haunted place in Oregon and, perhaps, the most haunted place on the West Coast.)

Dawn should hopefully make it to the next Dresden session. She wanted to come to this one, but was too sleepy to be coherent. She had lots of ideas when I got home, though. Having read all of the books she has a much more complete picture of the Dresden world than I do.

Any chance we can get what we have so far typed out here? I'd be happy to type them out for you if you get me the cards.

I don't know if it's been explicitly stated yet, but the process for creating cities for the DFRPG is fucking awesome so far. Since we're testing it, is there anything that isn't working real well? I know it's time consuming, but, then, we came up with a lot of locations. Is there anything that didn't particularly work, or was significantly unclear?

We developed a solid, working theme early on which guided us through the rest of the creation. Also, we came to the table with a lot of ideas, and had a laptop-jockey googling away. We spent about four hours and had a playable city. But, we didn't make it to the end of the city-building chapter. And the last few pages suggest doing some massive legwork. Which is both impractical and time consuming. The pacing of city creation seems a little off. We had an awesome experience, but I don't know how much the rules-as-written influenced that.

True. On the other hand, had we stuck to the recommended number of locations I think we probably would have finished. On first reading, I got thoroughly confused between themes and concepts and aspects and what to use where, but it made a lot more sense in practice.

Posted By: AlainnDawnI know you don't need more ideas for places but did the Portland Saturday Market get brought up? www.portlandsaturdaymarket.com It could make a great place to get information or hand-crafted stuff. You know how wizards need the low-tech stuff. ;) Plus I could see it being a place to pick up oddball things too, no reason at all why the magical community couldn't be rolled into it. It's there most of the year, March through December, on both Saturdays and Sundays.

It's definitely something that could easily be dropped into one of our existing locations. Thank you!

Sweet! I don't think we have anything going on then, so we should plan on this.

That sounds cool. I'm guessing the next set of documents will drop sometime after GenCon, which is, I think, this weekend.