[UA] Strangeness in Texas?

[Wade Lahoda]

On Nov 21, 2007 9:00 AM, Jade Hammons <xadxevion at gmail.com> wrote:
> Uhm... what _part_ of Texas. Texas is not homegenous. It's too huge.
> You have east texas, central texas, the hill country, west texas, the
> panhandle, south texas, etc etc. Cities 3 hours apart are going to be
> night and day in terms of politics and attitude. It has the biggest
> tech sector outside of silicon valley (Silicon Hills in Austin), and
> miles of inbred cows.

  Heh, I find myself amused by the fact that anywhere I have asked
about Texas online the first thing folks tell me about is how big it
is - Texas seems relatively compact and dense to me, because I come
from a province that is almost three times the size of Texas with
about 1/25th of the population of Texas.  Part of the reason I asked
for guidance here instead of earlier when my campaign was in Chicago
or New Orleans is because I think I might be able to imagine
roleplaying in Texas, whereas I knew I was restrained to presenting
the movie versions of Chicago or New Orleans - the population density
of such places just breaks my brain even thinking of how to comprehend
it, never mind doing a good job of it as a GM.

  But the whole "what part of Texas" is probably an excellent
question. :)  So if you were a group of strange cultists trying to
keep together, on the move, and in hiding from a group of even crazier
PCs, and you had just headed West into Texas from Louisiana...where
would you go?  Scratch that.  Where would you go that would be the
most interesting place to go for seclusion that would show off some
interesting or creepy bits in Texas? :)

  Thank you for the links, by the way. :)


>
> Rather than go for real Texas, you're probably better off going with
> 'fake' Texas, what your players expext Texas to be like from TV, and
> Hollywood, et al.  For the real thing, you're not far off just picking
> a large city, makign it a  lot like Toronto, and running with it.
>
> http://www.texastwisted.com/
> http://www.robotics.com/orb/
> http://www.keepaustinweird.com/

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