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I recently learned via twitter that Chaosium published a remake of a setting supplement for Call of Cthulu called Terror Australis so I picked up a copy of the PDF to take a look (I haven't read it all yet) and it doesn't look too bad and had a reasonably good little article on the city I am from (Adelaide) which made me happy because it's fairly uncommon for Australia to show up in fiction or tabletop RPGs at all; and often when it does it is not very well portrayed (often falling back on stereotypes of the place, Kangaroos in the street, only the one city). So, it got me thinking, have other people encountered what they think to be a good representation of their hometown/city/state/country etc. in a tabletop RPG setting? How about in other fiction?
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I live in east Tennessee. If my locale has ever been reproduced in a fictional context, I HOPE it was done inaccurately. The real version sucks.
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I will love Paizo forever for publishing the Hodag.
I can't tell you how many hours I hunted them to get away from my a#~$!&+ brothers as a kid.
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In Rifts they mention Madison as having a huge nest of their bug aliens taking over the Midwest.
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Most works get Brooklyn wrong in some way. Manhattan seems to revolve around tourist traps, and as tourist traps they get them right. Whenever it gets to people *living* there it gets them dead wrong, see Friends.
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On the flip side, That 70s Show absolutely nailed being a teenager in Wisconsin.
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Umm... anything portraying a small rural town with no services to speak of...
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I haven't seen anything RP oriented, but Dean Koontz, in his book Watchers, made my head explode when, near the beginning of the story, the protagonist came out of a rural canyon and began heading down streets and passing landmarks that were not a half-mile from where I lived at the time (Orange CA, USA). The McDonald's drive-thru he stopped at framed the page he mentioned them in, and so far as I know, it remains there to this day.
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Man, NOBODY gets Alaska as a whole right, let alone my specific part of it.
For that matter, while I LOVE that Kids on Bikes tried to do something with Talkeetna, they.... really, really missed the mark.
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The release of Gamma World that WotC put out during the D&D 4E era used various American towns as its setting.
d20Modern encourages GMs to get a tourist map of their hometown (wherever that was at the moment) - or a roadmap or local atlas or almanac barring tourist center maps - and use that as the initial (or even entire) setting for whatever campaign that GM was running. I still have yet to do that, even though it’s a pretty awesome idea.
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From 1988 to 2000 I played in a DC Heroes campaign that was based in Montreal (none of us had ever been there, for the record). But we had several maps and the Justice League: Canada fought evil and tyranny all across the world and in nearby space from that location.
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Shadowrun fast forwarded world history after the awakening of magic, and I remember being really perturbed as a kid that frickin' Dallas was the capital of Texas (or whatever nation it became) instead of it's largest city, Houston, or it's actual capital, Austin.
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d20Modern encourages GMs to get a tourist map of their hometown (wherever that was at the moment) - or a roadmap or local atlas or almanac barring tourist center maps - and use that as the initial (or even entire) setting for whatever campaign that GM was running. I still have yet to do that, even though it’s a pretty awesome idea.
Although! I got fairly close, recently!
Set a thing in a (fictionalized) college town not tooooooo far away from here! So that was neat!
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Shadowrun fast forwarded world history after the awakening of magic, and I remember being really perturbed as a kid that frickin' Dallas was the capital of Texas (or whatever nation it became) instead of it's largest city, Houston, or it's actual capital, Austin.