Fictional cities

**John Desmarais** · Feb 8th, '12, 06:42 AM

Originally Posted by L.Craig

Im just wondering from gms when you guys use a fictional city(that you created) for a campaign, do you guys create a history of the city, or do you guys create it as you play the camapign.

I favor the fictional city approach - with familiar bits. My default super-setting is Neptune City, which is based loosely (and sometimes recognizably) on Norfolk, VA.

**megaplayboy** · Feb 8th, '12, 06:49 AM

Originally Posted by John Desmarais

I favor the fictional city approach - with familiar bits. My default super-setting is Neptune City, which is based loosely (and sometimes recognizably) on Norfolk, VA.

There's advantages to that, too. If you have someone who's pretty familiar with a real world city, and you decide to add a new building or structure or neighborhood, they may pipe up and say, "that isn't possible, that area's already got X there" or somesuch. But if it's loosely based on a real city, then that's less of a problem.