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Offline Teegster

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Brand new to the Fate system, need help with City Creation
« on: June 25, 2010, 10:17:29 PM »
The short and sweet is that I'm GMing this game and am completely new to the Fate system and practically new to GMing. I've done som DnD DMing in the past, but never really set up my own campaign. We have a ground of five players (Not including me), only one of which has started reading the DF books and another which has seen the TV show. We just finished up City Creation last night and I wanted to get a few opinions on what we have. I'm hoping to have the short-comings pointed out, what needs to be changed, where we blatantly screwed up, etc.

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City Name: Seattle
Campaign Title: Dark Coffee and Dark Nights

City-Wide Themes and Threats
   -Theme
      -The Idea: Some petty criminals are more than they seem.
      -The Aspect: Dark Alleys, Darker Hearts
      -Faces: Benny Snake-Eyes, Steven Blackfoot

   -Threat
      -The Idea: Somebody's preparing a power play.
      -The Aspect: Storm's A Comin'
      -Faces: Summer Court, White Court, Black Court, Benny Snake-Eyes

   -Theme
      -The Idea: Puppet's can't see the strings.
      -The Aspect: Puppet Government
      -Faces: The Mayor, Upper Brass in Seattle P.D.

The Balance of Power
   -Supernatural Status Quo
      -Winter Court dominates
      -White Court in control of the government
      -Black Court has been in the area for a while, though haven't moved.

   -Mundane Status Quo
      -Cops are well respected. (By most)
      -Mayor is attempting to be “mayor for life”.
      -Native American mafia owns the crime scene, operates out of a casino.

City Sheet (Locations)

Name: Lake View Cemetary
Description: A mournful resting place overlooking Puget Sound.
Threat
The Idea: The resting dead are waking up.
The Aspect: The ghosts are waking up.
Face:
   Name: Groundkeeper Emry
   Face of: Lake View Cemetary
   High Concept: The man who talks to ghosts.
   Motivation: He's pissed at the world and wants to sew as much destruction as he can.
   Relationships: Just the ghosts

Name: Seattle Central Library
Description: The biggest, best library in the city!
Theme
The Idea: Everyone academic comes here to learn and teach.
The Aspect: A center of thought and learning
Face:
   Name: Professor Maury Arty
   Face of: Central Library
   High Concept: Secret Wizard Curator
   Motivation: Wants to cultivate magical talent without attracting the White Council's attention.    Not strictly evil, but believes in the superiority of wizards.
   Relationships: One of the PC's, local magic community, the dean of Seattle University

Name: Martha Washington School
Description: An old, run-down school that's being used as a lycan base.
Theme
The Idea: Over the years just about everything happened here.
The Aspect: If these walls could talk
Face:
   Name: John Montana
   Face Of: Martha Washington School
   High Concept: Advisor to Riza Wildman
   Motivation: Make Riza into a good leader.
   Relationships: Riza Wildman, MacDaniel

Name: Troll Market
Description: A market in the underground located under a bridge.
Theme
Idea: A market run by the supernatural.
Aspect: We got what you need
Face:
   Name: Geoffrey
   Face Of: The Troll Market
   High Concept: Smarter than the average troll
   Motivation: Keep the peace
   Relationships: MacDaniel

Name: Sammamish Tribe's Home
Description: Indian tribe to the North that are stock-piling arms and ammunition.
Threat
Idea: The tribe is gathering together to attack the white people and take back their land.
Aspect: Drums on the Horrizon
Face:
   Name: Steven Blackfoot
   Face Of: The Sammamish Tribe's Home
   High Concept: Totem Spirit Barbarian
   Motivation: Claims he wants to take back his people's land, but really just wants to have power and crush Benny Snake-Eyes.
   Relationships: Benny Snake-Eyes, Seattle P.D.

Name: The Lucky Savage Casino and Hotel
Description: Front for Benjamin Snake-Eyes and his mafia-like crime empire.
Threat
Idea: The place where Benjamin launders much of his money and is able to operate without the police snooping around too much.
Aspect: The House Always Wins
Face:
   Name: Benjamin “Benny” Snake-Eyes
   Face Of: The Lucky Savage
   High Concept: In the know crime lord
   Motivation: Wants to bring back his dead wife, will stop at nothing to do so.
   Relationships: Steven Blackfoot, Seattle P.D.

Name: The Bloedel Reserve
Description: 150-acre nature reserve that secretly houses a few wolfweres and numerous regular wolves. Two of the rangers are werewolves.
Theme
Idea: As close to nature as civilization can get
Aspect: Survival of the Fittest
Face:
   Name: Catherine Bloedel
   Face of: The Bloedel Reserve
   High Concept: Werewolf Ranger
   Motivation: Protecting the reserve and offering a place for wolves/werewolves to “live free”.
   Relationships: One of the PCs, John Montana, MacDaniel

Name: McDaniel's Bar
Description: Bar that specializes with the magical community, offering a relaxed place to eat and drink.
Theme
Idea: Meeting place/safe hangout
Aspect: Accorded Neutral Ground
Face:
   Name: Macall “Mac” McDaniel
   Face of: McDaniel's Bar
   High Concept: Free Holding Bartender
   Motivation: Wants to make a place where the Seattle magical community can eat, drink, and be merry.
   Relationships: Just about all magical folks.
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Re: Brand new to the Fate system, need help with City Creation
« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2010, 01:16:31 AM »
   -Theme
      -The Idea: Puppet's can't see the strings.
      -The Aspect: Puppet Government
      -Faces: The Mayor, Upper Brass in Seattle P.D.

Shouldn't the Faces include the ones behind the strings? The mob or whoever?


   Name: Professor Maury Arty
   Face of: Central Library
   High Concept: Secret Wizard Curator
   Motivation: Wants to cultivate magical talent without attracting the White Council's attention.    Not strictly evil, but believes in the superiority of wizards.
   Relationships: One of the PC's, local magic community, the dean of Seattle University

Really? -_- Maury Arty? Lols. Good thing I've learned not to be drinking when I read these... So he's kind of a Wizard supremacist? This kinda hints towards a harry potter pureblood kind of thing, but works just fine...

Name: Troll Market
Description: A market in the underground located under a bridge.
Theme
Idea: A market run by the supernatural.
Aspect: We got what you need
Face:
   Name: Geoffrey
   Face Of: The Troll Market
   High Concept: Smarter than the average troll
   Motivation: Keep the peace
   Relationships: MacDaniel

A supernatural black market under a bridge... -_- Hellboy fans are ya? Lol

Name: McDaniel's Bar
Description: Bar that specializes with the magical community, offering a relaxed place to eat and drink.
Theme
Idea: Meeting place/safe hangout
Aspect: Accorded Neutral Ground
Face:
   Name: Macall “Mac” McDaniel
   Face of: McDaniel's Bar
   High Concept: Free Holding Bartender
   Motivation: Wants to make a place where the Seattle magical community can eat, drink, and be merry.
   Relationships: Just about all magical folks.

Not using Mac Nally's as a template for this are ya?



From what I can see, this works pretty well. You've got some good base for storyline here. Also, some good humor as well  ;)
A man once told me death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back.

Do you think a man can change his destiny?
I think a man does what he can, until his destiny is revealed to him.

May the best day of your past, be the worst day of your future.

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Re: Brand new to the Fate system, need help with City Creation
« Reply #2 on: June 26, 2010, 08:03:13 AM »
Shouldn't the Faces include the ones behind the strings? The mob or whoever?

Oh, yeah... I actually haven't figured out who's pulling the strings yet, though I was thinking either the White Court or the Black Court...

Really? -_- Maury Arty? Lols. Good thing I've learned not to be drinking when I read these... So he's kind of a Wizard supremacist? This kinda hints towards a harry potter pureblood kind of thing, but works just fine...

The player who came up with that is an English major, though everyone else did seem to like it. I think he could be used well as setting up an elitist group of college practitioners.

A supernatural black market under a bridge... -_- Hellboy fans are ya? Lol

Yeah, the last campaign I ran was using the BESM system in which all the players were members of the B.P.R.D.

Not using Mac Nally's as a template for this are ya?

I'm sorry, what is that?  :P

From what I can see, this works pretty well. You've got some good base for storyline here. Also, some good humor as well  ;)

Thanks, good to see I was able to get everyone to understand the system enough and we figured it out.

Also, I'll probably be making up the Space Needle as a location, I'm thinking of the Aspect being "Font Of Power".

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Re: Brand new to the Fate system, need help with City Creation
« Reply #3 on: June 28, 2010, 12:06:21 AM »
I'm sorry, what is that?  :P

Oh hush up I was tired...  ;D

Also, I'll probably be making up the Space Needle as a location, I'm thinking of the Aspect being "Font Of Power".

I had forgotten about that building... Yeah it's possible. Could be used as a plotline of someone using it to do something dastardly...
A man once told me death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back.

Do you think a man can change his destiny?
I think a man does what he can, until his destiny is revealed to him.

May the best day of your past, be the worst day of your future.

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Re: Brand new to the Fate system, need help with City Creation
« Reply #4 on: June 28, 2010, 09:58:13 AM »
Oh hush up I was tired...  ;D

I had forgotten about that building... Yeah it's possible. Could be used as a plotline of someone using it to do something dastardly...

It's funny, there's two reasons my group picked Seattle for our campaign.
1) There's a bridge that actually has a sculpture of a troll grabbing a VW Beetle.
2) The idea of an epic battle on top of the Space Needle made everyone giddy.

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Re: Brand new to the Fate system, need help with City Creation
« Reply #5 on: June 28, 2010, 01:54:53 PM »
Sir,

I am going to copy/paste your city format and put my stuff into it!

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Re: Brand new to the Fate system, need help with City Creation
« Reply #6 on: June 28, 2010, 04:02:51 PM »
It's funny, there's two reasons my group picked Seattle for our campaign.
1) There's a bridge that actually has a sculpture of a troll grabbing a VW Beetle.
2) The idea of an epic battle on top of the Space Needle made everyone giddy.



The Fremont Troll: http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2236
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Re: Brand new to the Fate system, need help with City Creation
« Reply #7 on: June 28, 2010, 08:34:34 PM »
Sir,

I am going to copy/paste your city format and put my stuff into it!

Please do, I'm glad I could help!



The Fremont Troll: http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2236

That's the one.