adventures in your home town

[zebaroth]

adventures in your home town what interesting places exist in your town
i live an a town that has/had Not sure if it still open a plastics compney called plastiform
and a mall hello autons and nistine

where you live do you have any places that would make great game ideas

[da professor]

Harrogate is, or at least once was, on a short list of places the British government could decamp to if London ever became unsuitable. This, I believe, happened in the third Doctor adventure the Invasion of the Dinosaurs and in John Wyndham's The Kraken Wakes.

[zebaroth]

Cool

[barefoottourguide]

I'm happy to say I did this. The Doctor lands in Buffalo/Niagara Falls. Of course Walendi the tight rope walker's an alien on earth... but I had what seemed to be the spirit of the African American who took down McKinley's killer before a third shot could be fired... is an active vigilante in the neighborhood built over the site of the McKinley shooting.

It's available at www.mediafire.com/view/2sgbynsywsglla2/Doctor_Who_and_McKinley_v2.docx
It was fun to run this at Buffalo college, half a mile from where the story takes place.
Garrett

[zebaroth]

Oct 2, 2015 0:25:53 GMT barefoottourguide said:

I'm happy to say I did this. The Doctor lands in Buffalo/Niagara Falls. Of course Walendi the tight rope walker's an alien on earth... but I had what seemed to be the spirit of the African American who took down McKinley's killer before a third shot could be fired... is an active vigilante in the neighborhood built over the site of the McKinley shooting.

It's available at www.mediafire.com/view/2sgbynsywsglla2/Doctor_Who_and_McKinley_v2.docx
It was fun to run this at Buffalo college, half a mile from where the story takes place.
Garrett

cool cool

[zebaroth]

my home town use to have bel chear for over 30 years until last year but it would be a good event
to have in a game

[jay042]

Well, in 1878 my home town of Mesquite Texas was the site of the last train robbery by the Outlaw Sam Bass.

[zebaroth]

that would make a good story for game

[barefoottourguide]

Very nice adventure. A train robbery. Preferably one where the TARDIS has a problem and is stuck on the train.
Garrett

[Catsmate]

Oct 12, 2015 16:07:17 GMT barefoottourguide said:

Very nice adventure. A train robbery. Preferably one where the TARDIS has a problem and is stuck on the train.
Garrett

I've been musing on such a scenario recently, mainly down to reading a few of Cussler's Isaac Bell novels. Lots of fascinating detail of train travel in the USA, though it's in early twentieth century rather than late nineteenth.

An earlier setting would have more difficult communication with the outside world, slower speeds and less reliable machinery; ideal conditions for a 'Murder on the Orient Express' style mystery or a mobile 'Base Under Siege' with complications from would-be thieves, time travelling tourists and more. There's the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad (Promontory, Utah on On 10 May 1869), the arrival of the first Transcontinental Express in San Francisco after it's 83 hours journey (9:30AM, 4 June 1876) or the six-day Great Excursion in 1854 celebrating the rail link from Chicago to the Mississippi. Then again the railways were known for criminal activity, from robberies of the express cars to labour violence like the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 which left hundreds dead.
One Doctor Who audiobook, “The Runaway Train” is set in this period.


Personally I'm thinking about a scenario set in Dublin in and around the events of 1916, a friend of mine is completing an alternative history novel set then.


ETA: I've just thought of this film, quite suitable for adaption as a Who scenario.