I’ve already got the music and aesthetic down, generally. Big-band, rat-pack, etc. Remnants and burnt out metropolis of rubble with art-deco aesthetics. A motorcycle sect of the Brotherhood of Steel. Punk-rock raiders. We are using a rule-system based off Fallout 2.
I need a combination of 80s shit-movies featured in major NYC locations, big-band 20s feel with a few songs from the 60s. I’m aware of most of the “NYC fallout lore”, such that it is a complete crater filled with radioactive waste overran with mutants and ghouls! Perfect!
I understand this and yet, I feel like a massive nuclear crater that was mid-town is a good game opportunity.
What do you think? I’m posting here for the sake of TTRPG and the fact it’s based on a game, as well as me asking for art and music direction! (obviously, you know Sinatra’s New York was gonna take the cake) I have a few things planned, but I’m curious if there is anything I might have missed!
Happy holidays, and of course, if you wanna join just let me know in DMs!
Cyberpunk AND vtm? Shit are you my alter-ego? I run the same thing(s), well, VTM right now.
Escape from New York sounds like a great overall goal, but ultimately I feel like there will be some “boggage” as one would put it, so I plan to have a way around that! I will take “The Warriors” movie recommendation to heart. “Dilapidated-but-alive” isn’t quite what I’m going for. More so the ruins of a massive city that was the epitome of wealth and symbol of pure greed brought down entirely to rubble. A massive, threaded metropolis overran by ghouls and mutants, of course.
Jersey is a series of massive irradiated warehouses that supplied multiple materials to the various manufacturing sectors that existed in Newark. You were correct on the crater and metro system; of course that would play a significant part. That is where couple groups of “raiders” hang out. There are numerous vaults that exist in NYC; with two sealing 6 minutes before the launches.
Not too far off! I am using Beyond and Mick Harvey hehe
Oh I’n not running either system, lol. I’m taking the lore of both and implementing cybernetics and the various supernatural types as closely as I can get it into Savage Worlds. I wanted to run either but my table doesn’t want to learn another system, so, I’m running it on SW.
The lore bit about Jersey and Manhattan sounds interesting!
So you’re just using the real thing?
That got me; I actually was doing some research on the area and I noticed a huge amount of warehouses. In a country that never “deindustrialized” I’d feel like Newark would have become even more of a major hub for steel/industry logistics, shipping, etc.
There’s more than just warehouses, it’s just what it was known for along the stretch of the 95. Nowadays, they are controlled by raiders with motorbikes as what’s left of the 95 is used for tolls, extortion and thefts as a major amount of traffic comes from NYC outwards. There’s also an airport! It’s still shitty.
The airport I wanted to have a BOS enclave!