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Old 03-02-2014, 01:12 PM   #4
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Default Re: Vote up an Urban Fantasy Setting

Dresden Files

Time period RANK 1-5
• This decade/present day + 4

History: RANK 1-4
• Hidden weirdness: the supernatural stuff has always existed, under the surface, more so in recent centuries—textbook history and common knowledge match our world + 1

• Reality quake: a reality altering event has occurred, either recently or deeper in the past/further in the future but affecting the present. Magic bleeds into the world and lots of people are noticing… [getting close to this]


Distribution of weirdness RANK 1-3
• Diffuse, hidden spookiness and supernatural stuff exists all over the world [+3]

Default player-character types RANK 1-4
• Ghost-breakers, badass detectives, occultists who have real power, etc. [+2]
• monsters that might be sympathetic as well as scary (White Wolf did a lot of this) [if you count Tomas + 4]

Magic and weird powers, number of categories: RANK 1-3
• Three or more [+ 3]


Categories of magic/weird powers RANK 1-6
• book/path of some kind [+4 RPM]
• esoteric skills like alchemy and herbalism [+ 5]
• fringe tech/weird science [If butters had his way but they're not there]



Number of monster categories, rank 1-6:
• Six or more [+ 6]

Monster types, RANK 1—10,
• Shapeshifters
• Ghosts/Spirits
• Vampires
• Fairies
• Witches, warlocks, evil magicians
• Zombies
• Demons and devils
• Cryptids
• Golems/constructs
• Other types, including possibly some from Creatures of the Night
Basically all of the above.
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