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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 5436762" data-attributes="member: 63">I was just rereading Piratecat's "Look on my mighty works" thread, and realized I could use help along the same lines.For the ZEITGEIST campaign saga I'm writing up the description of the city that's central to several adventures. I've already settled on the basics -- a subtropical coastal city, where the mountains near the shore are covered with slums and rainforests, while the wealthy live in the lowlands. While traditional folk druidism holds sway in the rural and poorer areas, a nascent industrial revolution has turned the city's inland lake into a polluted mire as crude factories hem it in. Huge influxes of farm workers, come to the city in hope of work and the supposed benefits of the steam engine, lead to unorthodox philosophical and art movements as the educated elite mingle with the desperately poor. Smuggling and drug crime plague the slums within the city and the swampy bayous without, while supernatural entities lurk in forests, beneath the waves, and in the shadows cast by billowing smokestacks. Basically, it's modern Rio de Janeiro crossed with 19th century London and some of my favorite elements from urban fantasy literature. Not quite steampunk, exactly, but with hints of it. So that's the gist of the place. Now what I need help with are the details.I figure what better place to mine for ideas than the real world. If you've got a favorite landmark, person, historical trivia, or other random interesting thing from your own city (or another city you love), please post it. Maybe fantasy it up a bit. Atlanta, for instance, has a single mountain just outside the city, where they've carved a massive relief sculpture on one side to commemorate the generals of a war we lost. Every summer there are festivals out there, and they put on big musical numbers with a laser light show. Maybe a fantasy version could instead have a mountain where the generals actually met their end by petrification, and people perform rituals to keep their uneasy spirits from harming the city.By home town had a tiny museum devoted to firefighters, with the largest fire hydrant in the world out front. We also had a museum to a female golfer/basketballer/track star, and another one devoted to the first fur trader who moved into the area decades before it was ever a real town. These sorts of things could inspire a bevy of random minor locations throughout a city.Thanks in advance for anyone who can help out.</blockquote>

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