So, I have city creation  (for the most part) for my own group.  I decided to try another group as well.  I found a few people from this community and even one from www.nerdnyc.com and we got together last night to meet for the first time.  It was a lot of fun and this time I decided to hang back and let them come up with everything on their own.  That is different from my group where I really jumped on it from the beginning and pushed it forward.  

It was an interesting discussion with

sinboy

rosefox

ogreteeth

This is part 2 of the City creation for NYC.  It has the locations and Npc's for each.  This is about 95% done and will be tweaked a bit over the next few days.

Here is part 1 if you missed it.  
http://staceyinastoria.livejournal.com/18776.html

This is part 1 of my New York City creation for the Dresden Files RPG.  I apologize now for how long it is, but I do tend to over due things from time to time.  :)  So, I am splitting it up into two parts.

Part 1 will be the themes and the history (that I found interesting) that was changed, or affected by the Dresdenverse.
Part 2 will be the locations and the questions you had to answer for each city. So here is part 1, and I am doing the LJ cut to try to avoid annoying everyone with my long posts!.

I know I am not the most patient person in the world.  

People have been telling me this most of my life.  Fine, I get it.

But I was really wanting to get going on the Dresden Files city creation today, not to mention play Spirit of the Century.  But since I have woken up I have found out that three of the possilble five people that were coming to play SOTC and help with the Dresden Files Rpg, cannot make it.  I know it is summer and I know people have a hard time trying to delegate all the things they are doing this time of the year.  Especially with two of my friends, they are almost always busy and I was surprised they even thought they could make it this weekend.  I get how hard it is. 

I get that, really I do.

But it does not take away from the frustration of three only being three people (counting me).  First of all, I do not know if we can even game now.  It is hard to run a two person game and keep it fun and interesting, but I may try.  Also due to how badly I want to get this city creation started and how much I am happy to be part of something so cool.

Now the two remaining people, I am sure are more than willing to help.  So, we will get this started, and probably work on this more later. 
But I really wanted as many people as I could get to be involved with this, and that part is annoying me this morning.  Saying that, i was planning on having possibly two different groups, and I still have plenty of time.  

So, I should stop being so dramatic.  :)  But I did get a little caught up in the excitment of it all.

After getting the info from drivingblind today the burning alpha playtesters have began brainstorming about how they want to create their own cities for the game.

I am doing this as well.  

I live in New York City, which is both a good and bad thing for this type of game.  There are so many neighborhood and cultures in the city (and the surrounding boroughs) that I am very excited about the prospect of seeing what we can created.  On the other side, New York City can be a big daunting and you want to make sure you get the feel of it.  That could be either very easy, or a bit difficult.  The funny thing is of my main group, five of the six of us are transplants from other places (one from Maine, one from Oklahoma, one from Pennsylvania, one from Connecticut, and one from all over).  Only my friend Henry has lived in NYC his entire life, mostly in Park Slope, Brooklyn.  

So, I got to thinking about New York City and what it has to offer and here are just a few notes.

1.  It is a city of culture.  You can literally choose from MANY different races and culture.  That is nice when dealing with a supernatural aspect of things.  
2.  It is a tough place to live.  The summer's and winter's are harsh (mostly due to the fact that most people do not drive, so they are out in the elements more).  Which also would make you more of a target.  Rent can be very harsh, and I don't imagine the city I am creating in the game would be any different.  Combine that with the supernatural aspect of a Red Court vampire feasting on you and well it can be a handful.
3. I love the idea of doing something with the Statue of Liberty.  Having the ley lines run through it and it being the center.  I also would like to make it almost a place of safety from the creatures of the night.  My thought is when it was commissioned from the French, it was financed by someone that had ties with the White Council and the statue was actually "blessed" in some way.  I am early in this thought.
4.  The twin towers.  I can imagine that would be a place that comes up in the game.  9/11 was horrible and I would never do anything to remind people of that, it would be more of a setting than anything else.  You cannot think of NY without thinking of that horrible day almost 7 years ago.  Having known people that died in the Oklahoma City bombing, I can sympathize with the pain in this.
5. The subway system is another place that can be used almost like the way Butcher uses the tunnels under Chicago.  A lot of things you could do with the NYC subway system.
6.  You have some other cool areas.  Chinatown, Coney Island, Times Square, Yankee Stadium, The West Village, to name just a few off the top of my head. 

Those are just a few thoughts as I tried to sleep.