04-13-2024, 06:40 PM | #1 |
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[World-Building] Tourist Destinations For a Superhero Universe
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04-15-2024, 02:00 PM | #2 |
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Re: [World-Building] Tourist Destinations For a Superhero Universe
At some point DC created a tourist guide to Gotham and one for Metropolis. I don't know if they expanded out to Central City or any of the other locations.
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Re: [World-Building] Tourist Destinations For a Superhero Universe
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04-15-2024, 02:49 PM | #4 |
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Re: [World-Building] Tourist Destinations For a Superhero Universe
Super-excellent stuff.
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04-15-2024, 06:13 PM | #5 |
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Re: [World-Building] Tourist Destinations For a Superhero Universe
In Champions Online, the central social hub of Renaissance Center is lined with statues of heroes who fell in the defeat of Dr. Destroyer's plot in 1994 (he designed a machine to attract meteors to specific targets so he could hold nations hostage; a group of student heroes from Ravenswood Academy happened upon his HQ in Detroit before he could carry out his plans; he tried to call down an asteroid strike, but most of Earth's heroes who could go to space went to stop the asteroid while the others gathered to fight Destroyer and his robots in a fight so massive it killed most of them and wiped out much of the city, which was later rebuilt and renamed Millennium City). Not only does RenCen attract its fair share of visitors, so do the remains of Destroyer's lab just north of there (in addition to Foxbat occasionally trying to use it as a new base of operations). There's also a statue in a nearby park dedicated to heroes who have fallen since, but designed after popular player character Crimson Bolt. (There was discussion of another statue for Thundrax, created by Champions writer Scott Bennie, but before his passing he had explicitly asked that this not be done.)
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04-16-2024, 11:04 PM | #6 |
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Re: [World-Building] Tourist Destinations For a Superhero Universe
I've got a non-RPG writing project where part of my worldbuilding has been making a list of magical artifacts that ill-defined properties that I could use if I had to pull a McGuffin out of a hat -- the Quasmaux Configuration, the Sun Hammer, the Broken Fang, the Undying Heart, the Bavarian Eye, the Orb of Arthong, and the Chains of Horus, among others. Then I pick out locations around the city or the world where they might be hidden, in case I want to send the heroes after them...
It's also useful to keep a technobabble generator around, in case you need generic hyperscience gadgets to leave around the mad scientist's hideout. There are a lot of them out there, but this one seems pretty good: https://www.scifiideas.com/technobabble-generator/ |
04-17-2024, 07:41 PM | #7 |
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Re: [World-Building] Tourist Destinations For a Superhero Universe
9. The city state of Eklips located in the Balkans has the notable peculiarity of being constantly in the shadow of a large circular supernatural entity which floats in the sky above it. Despite being surrounded by one of Eastern Europe's poorest areas, Eklips itself is a magnet for tourism and money with a local economy revolving around gambling, live entertainment, sex work and drinking establishments. It's a European equivalent of Las Vegas where the sun never rises. Notoriously though, if you can't pay your gambling debts in cash, they will take it out of you in blood.
10. Olympios is an island in the Atlantic Ocean which belongs to no nation, belonging instead to entities who claim to be the gods of Greek mythology, raised out of the ocean to host their version of the Olympic Games, a version which does not exclude superhumans from competition as the mundane games did. |
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