Posted: Mar 17, 2014 3:44 pm
I have fininshed writing up my first area for my Modern D20 game, it has taken me a bit to work out where this first area should take the players. I knew I wanted it to be a gang hideout, but I wanted the right amount of space and the right kind of tone to the place. I thought of making the hideout in just a run down slum house, but they were just in a house so they felt a bit to similar. I thing looked at some other maps online and in my books and thought maybe a abandoned fast food restaurant would be good. But thinking some more it felt like it would be too large, it would just be one big combat I wanted the feeling of hunting for danger in smaller rooms, the fear of what might be behind that next door. I then thought maybe an apartment would be good, but that was just too small a space, gangers don't live in penthouses.
However that is when it came to me, I could have it in an apartment building one that has been abandoned by the normal residents and has been taken over by the gangs. Set across one or two floors the gang has expanded the apartments into each other, knocking down walls here and there. This increases the play area, meaning the players wont be done too quickly and at the same time allows me to have the cramped tone I was looking for. Time to start some map drawing and some writing.
However that is when it came to me, I could have it in an apartment building one that has been abandoned by the normal residents and has been taken over by the gangs. Set across one or two floors the gang has expanded the apartments into each other, knocking down walls here and there. This increases the play area, meaning the players wont be done too quickly and at the same time allows me to have the cramped tone I was looking for. Time to start some map drawing and some writing.