Sir_Elderberry
2010-01-05, 06:00 PM
My group is switching to M&M soon, from D&D 4e (although some of us have 3.5 experience, easing our transition) for various reasons. I'll be DMing most of the time, and thought I'd try my hand at my own setting (all of my self-written D&D play has been one-session adventures). One of the things I thought I might try was setting the campaign in the "real world"--but modified for supers. Note that I don't just mean a standard comic book universe. For example, my group lives in and around Tulsa, OK. Adventure seeds would direct them to Tulsa landmarks (or personal landmarks). Mayor Bartlett might call them in to deal with threats. I'd stick to real-ish geography.
All of it, however, is run through a filter. So, for instance, the gaming shop we all go to is on 71st and Mingo and is called Wizard's Asylum. In my campaign, then, 71st and Mingo will house a super-mental-hospital, whose first charge was in fact a wizard.
Does this sound cool/interesting, or would the realism wankery just add a lot of unappreciated work for the GM? Has anyone tried paralleling the real world to this degree? (I read the first few pages of this forum and didn't see any threads that seemed to be about this, so my apologies if I should have resurrected an earlier thread.)
All of it, however, is run through a filter. So, for instance, the gaming shop we all go to is on 71st and Mingo and is called Wizard's Asylum. In my campaign, then, 71st and Mingo will house a super-mental-hospital, whose first charge was in fact a wizard.
Does this sound cool/interesting, or would the realism wankery just add a lot of unappreciated work for the GM? Has anyone tried paralleling the real world to this degree? (I read the first few pages of this forum and didn't see any threads that seemed to be about this, so my apologies if I should have resurrected an earlier thread.)