[UA] RE: Yanks rolling through Europe

[F. A. R.]

Most games I've been in with contemporary settings - including those I've
run - are set in areas familiar to the GM. Since we're at a college with
students from all over, the setting is often new to the players, and we
don't have problems with players knowing the landscape better than the GM
does.

Personally, I'd love a game set in Europe (especially if I got to play a
Cliomancer!) because it seems like a very different set of landscapes and
societies. Less Tim Powers and more Neil Gaiman, maybe. I just haven't
seen any games set there, probably because the GMs don't feel confident in
their knowledge of the region. I know I wouldn't feel qualified to run
France or Germany.

 - FAR out

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Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:25:51 +0200
From: "Fco. Javier Rubio" <fjrubio at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [UA] Yanks rolling through Europe
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Hmm... do you, in the US, use your OWN cities as settings? GUess not. When i
have tried to do that it ends in manheim, when a player knows certain places
better then the GM, also, they tend to go visiting their own homes, trying
to find themseleves in real life and kindda :-7 .

My point was would a european-settled game be interesting for US players? Or
is Europe a far unknown place for you? Or does it seem too much the same?





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