| From: | Gurth gurth@******.nl |
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| Subject: | Museum floorplans (was Re: Independent Characters) |
| Date: | Tue, 3 Oct 2000 19:31:19 +0200 |
> >You could just make something up, based on (for example) the floorplan of
> >a museum or other public building you've been to and remember the layout
> >of. After all, museums can and do move around, and new ones are set up as
> >well, so there's no real need for a museum in 2060s Seattle to be the same
> >as its counterpart today.
>
[snip -- Matt, please trim your replies]
>
> Yeah, and do your players really know what those museums look like on
> the inside???
No, but that's not important. What is important is that the GM knows what
the site looks like, or at least has a good enough idea of its layout to
improvise enough that the players can wander around in it.
I have used the layouts of several houses, apartments and hotel rooms that
I've been to or stayed at during adventures. My players had never been
there, but I had clear enough maps in my head to let the players explore
them. For example, they've broken into Mongoose's old apartment and
investigated a crime scene in David Buehrer's house. (FWIW, I've also done
the reverse: used the layout of the apartment of one of my players in an
adventure I wrote up for the NAGEE -- and he didn't even recognize it when
he saw the map!)
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