Yeah, it's a shame. I love a lot of older games and I've given up mentioning them because whenever I do, the other person immediately suggests playing a newer game of the same genre, and I have a lot of issues with newer game design. I've also just wanted to have a stable long term group that would just keep going with a single game, maybe taking a break from time to time switching to an alternate game, but always back to the other. Continuity has always been super important to me in rpgs.

Treat the entire travel-corridor as a "city" for city-creation purposes.  PC's can have any sort of background from anywhere along the corridor (including each end) or any good reason to come there.

Sounds neat! Or maybe you could do a 'City' sheet for sections of the overall area, like breaking it down into quarters or something, depending how big it is?

We just made characters last night.  It's a 2 person game...1 is a Native American Tempest wizard, the other is a clued-in son of a Mafia Don.  Looking forward to it!

What's a Tempest Wizard?

That’s a really long running game! I had read that the game didn’t handle high power very well, but it’s good to hear that it wasn’t a problem for you. It sounds like it was a bit like a lot of Vampire: The Masquerade games in that it was more about the powers that control everything than your typical lower level character groups.
I’ve seen a lot of player characters that are more antagonist than protagonist, sadly.
Is your general play preference for higher power games? I’ve never gotten to play DFRPG so I don’t have any feel for the Refresh system and what it allows at the various levels.

That's a shame. I've seen some interesting Dresden Files games on Obsidian Portal, but that's about it. Oh, well.

Excellent! Thanks!

I’m new to Fate and was wondering if anyone could please help me out with answering some questions about Aspects? I’ve read the book and I get how they work when it comes to the player character sheet well enough, I think, but I have a little trouble with the changing contexts as they apply to Faces & Locations.

1.   It seems that the books indicate that the very best Aspects should easily apply in both a positive and negative way when it comes to the character. Does this also hold true for all other applications of Aspects? I mean, Troubles are specifically marked as that, so I get that those are just supposed to be negative, But this works the same for Locations also?

2.   If it does work the same for Locations, could you provide some examples and maybe a little explanation for ones that might work well and how they might be used?

3.   What if the Location is just supposed to be a good place for your character, like their apartment? I know bad things can still happen there, but when you choose an Aspect for a Location, is that just describing the Location itself, or the Face’s relationship TO that Location?

4.   Is the Face’s Concept it’s ‘High Concept Aspect’, or should it be a Concept that specifically includes its relationship to the Location it’s associated with? Can you provide some examples?

5.   The Idea is just a brief physical description of the Location? I know this overlaps with the Aspect for the Location, but I’m not quite clear on the distinction between the two?

6.   Can you please elaborate on how a Face relates to the Themes and Threats of a Location? If you had a Theme like, “This city is rotting!”, I understand you generally tie the Face to that Theme somehow, but Themes like this seem so large that it can be contributed to a whole bunch of factors rather than just the villain. Am I missing something here?