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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eyes of Nine" data-source="post: 9477567" data-attributes="member: 99786">I will say in Tokyo, you can be walking along a super busy boulevard. And then take a turn, and then another turn, and then another turn. And all of a sudden be in front of some totally random store or restaurant or coffee shop. And you think this is way off the beaten path, but you walk through the door and it's PACKED.Or all over Tokyo and other cities there are these multi-story shopping centers. In the US, with suburban sprawl, we've got "Strip malls":[ATTACH=full]382056[/ATTACH]But in Japan, shopping is vertical. You will see a street lined with 8-10+ story buildings, with every floor a tiny shop. Or somethimes same shop over multiple floors. Last time I was there, I spent a very pleasant afternoon browsing the 6 floors worth of a CD/Music store, jazz on one floor, punk and metal on another. And each floor is only like 250sq feet (23 sq meters) large. Here's a good picture of a street with a bunch of these along it - but it doesn't do it justice really.[ATTACH=full]382057[/ATTACH]Anyway, to the point... You could make a location like this gameable, either as a potential hideout for the PCs, or a place to meet a fixer. Or even where the macguffin can be heisted from somehow. While this has shades of Shadowrun, you can do similar things in Eberron or Sigil. Have some sort of emporium, but think of it in terms of vertical, not horizontal.</blockquote>