Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
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It's the planned end-point for the Promethean: The Created campaign I have planned, wherein a Frankenstein will head back to the namesake of the place that started it all.
Wisconsin as a Hunter: The Vigil setting
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It's the planned end-point for the Promethean: The Created campaign I have planned, wherein a Frankenstein will head back to the namesake of the place that started it all.
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Just across Lake Michigan from Wisconsin is a little place called Otsego, immortalized by industrial metal band Static-X*, starting with their first album, Wisconsin Death Trip and finishing with the song "Otsego Undead."
Perhaps that could be a source of adventures.
A fishing yacht runs aground in Wisconsin, all aboard dead except for one young lady, covered in blood. She awakes. But she is seemingly mute, unable to tell authorities what happened. After a few weeks, she is cleared by physicians and released from the hospital, and she disappears within 24 hours. Then begins a series of brutal murders.
The boat is registered in Michigan, normally berthed in a small marina near Otsego, and so far, nobody has come forward to claim it or even report it missing...
* http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static-X
Perhaps that could be a source of adventures.
A fishing yacht runs aground in Wisconsin, all aboard dead except for one young lady, covered in blood. She awakes. But she is seemingly mute, unable to tell authorities what happened. After a few weeks, she is cleared by physicians and released from the hospital, and she disappears within 24 hours. Then begins a series of brutal murders.
The boat is registered in Michigan, normally berthed in a small marina near Otsego, and so far, nobody has come forward to claim it or even report it missing...
* http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static-X
Raven Crowking
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I grew up in northern Wisconsin (Pembine) and in the Milwaukee area (+ suburbs). Things to include:
* Logging industry in pine forest northlands.
* Red ants.
* Mosquitoes.
* Ticks.
* Trying to navigate the one-way streets in Pewaukee.
* Non-natives trying to pronounce "Oconomowac".
* House on the Rock. Look it up if you don't know it. Also appears in Neil Gaimen's American Gods.
* Herds of deer. There are a LOT of white-tails in Wisconsin.
* Visiting Yoopers.
* There are now quite a few sandhill cranes in Wisconsin. They make a really interesting sound....unfortunately, recordings I have heard don't do them justice.
* The smell of fresh cowpats when the wind changes.
* Hodags. Other lumberjack critters if you like, but you have to mention Hodags at the very least.
I can actually remember when they integrated the school system, and if memory serves, Wisconsin was the last state in the union to give women the vote. So, lots of conservatism that might not be immediately apparent.
RC
* Logging industry in pine forest northlands.
* Red ants.
* Mosquitoes.
* Ticks.
* Trying to navigate the one-way streets in Pewaukee.
* Non-natives trying to pronounce "Oconomowac".
* House on the Rock. Look it up if you don't know it. Also appears in Neil Gaimen's American Gods.
* Herds of deer. There are a LOT of white-tails in Wisconsin.
* Visiting Yoopers.
* There are now quite a few sandhill cranes in Wisconsin. They make a really interesting sound....unfortunately, recordings I have heard don't do them justice.
* The smell of fresh cowpats when the wind changes.
* Hodags. Other lumberjack critters if you like, but you have to mention Hodags at the very least.
I can actually remember when they integrated the school system, and if memory serves, Wisconsin was the last state in the union to give women the vote. So, lots of conservatism that might not be immediately apparent.
RC
Raven Crowking
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Oh.....cheese curds, and cheese baskets. Generally, good cheese and bad beer, but there are a lot of small craft breweries in Wisconsin now, so it is possible to get some really interesting beer.
If you set the game in Milwaukee, you must include the Mitchell Park Domes.
If you set the game in Milwaukee, you must include the Mitchell Park Domes.
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
Great set-up.
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
These both sound like a definite.
Given all the good ideas I'm getting, I suspect this game will involve a fair amount of traveling away from the characters' home base, once things get rolling.
mac1504
Explorer
If you set it near Milwaukee, you can always use Haunchyville.
I grew up not too far from the locale, and as all youth are prone to do when they hear of legends in their neighborhood...
I grew up not too far from the locale, and as all youth are prone to do when they hear of legends in their neighborhood...
Some part of wisconsin are also VERY polish, which are strictly catholic. They have great names like Chojnacki which is pronounced "why-nots-ski" and a form of Shibilski that starts with a P. My home town of Stevens Points (part of the UW system, Stevens Point, Wisconsin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia acutally you might consider doing so wikipeding of towns for ideas) was pretty much full of that.
My roots are German, and I can confirm that Beer and Brats and Packers are very important. The defacto drinking age of beer at large gatherings is 12 with parents permission, and at 16 you can get it yourself. Brats (which you boil in beer) are served at all events. For schooling I have lived in St. Paul MN for a few years, and people are very keen to ask if I'm still a Packer fan (which offends me that they even need to ask. I only cheered once for the vikings, which was when they needed to beat the bears so that the bears wouldn't win the division. They lost, which is yet another reason to hate them).
I've been told that Wisconsinites are more "My town/state/team/german ancestry/etc is better than yours" than some other parts of the country. Its sort of a natural competitiveness that i have but i don't know if its really that widespread or unique.
Cheese factories. Thats the important part of cheese. Small local cheese factories where they make the cheese, you buy fresh cheese curds that squeak when you eat them and have a rediculous number of wax coated cheeses in the shapes of cows, pigs and packer helmets.
I was happy to see Culvers Frozen Custard restaurant mentioned, I worked at one for 6 years.
My roots are German, and I can confirm that Beer and Brats and Packers are very important. The defacto drinking age of beer at large gatherings is 12 with parents permission, and at 16 you can get it yourself. Brats (which you boil in beer) are served at all events. For schooling I have lived in St. Paul MN for a few years, and people are very keen to ask if I'm still a Packer fan (which offends me that they even need to ask. I only cheered once for the vikings, which was when they needed to beat the bears so that the bears wouldn't win the division. They lost, which is yet another reason to hate them).
I've been told that Wisconsinites are more "My town/state/team/german ancestry/etc is better than yours" than some other parts of the country. Its sort of a natural competitiveness that i have but i don't know if its really that widespread or unique.
Cheese factories. Thats the important part of cheese. Small local cheese factories where they make the cheese, you buy fresh cheese curds that squeak when you eat them and have a rediculous number of wax coated cheeses in the shapes of cows, pigs and packer helmets.
I was happy to see Culvers Frozen Custard restaurant mentioned, I worked at one for 6 years.
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