In Game Locations

[Tadanori Oyama]

Though we could use a thread about places to set a game.

To start this thread off, I heard about this place on an NPR news cast. The story isn't the interesting part, it's the place.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121365854

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121454635

The government is looking to move Guantanamo Bay inmates to other locations. One of the places they might be using is a prison in Thompson, Illinois and that's the cool place.

Apparently this small town agreed to build a prison, got the money together, build the prison, and then didn't have enough money to run it so the place is mostly empty.

It's a maximum security prison with capacity to hold 1,600 criminals and its currently used to house 200 minimum security inmates and the only population center nearby is a town with 450 citizens.

http://media.npr.org/images/ap//AP_News_Wire:_US_News/4_Detainee_Prison.sff.jpg?t=1260981864

I'd love to run a Call of Cthulhu game with players using minimum security inmates from the prison when something goes wrong.

[clockworkjoe]

Battleship Island http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashima_Island

Winchester Mystery House http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Mystery_House

River Country:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Country http://disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2344523 http://www.metafilter.com/87543/Abandoned-Water-Parks-Not-just-for-New-Jersey-anymore

Venetian Arsenal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venetian_Arsenal

Mercury: http://www.mapaplanet.org/explorer/mercury.html

Karnak: http://dlib.etc.ucla.edu/projects/Karnak/

[Chibi Jae]

American Amusement Park - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americana/Lesourdesville_Lake_Amusement_Park

Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capuchin_catacombs_of_Palermo

Beechmont Mall - http://www.deadmalls.com/malls/beechmont_mall.html

Kowloon Walled City - http://www.doobybrain.com/2008/05/01/my-father-lived-in-kowloon-walled-city/

Buffalo Central Terminal - http://www.forgottenbuffalo.com/historicpoloniadistrict/centralterminal.html

[clockworkjoe]

Various nuclear reactors - click on this link for some great art http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2009/12/nuclear-reactor-wall-charts.html

[codered]

The forgotten Realms is always a good place....

[Setherick]

Any number of Urban Explorer websites are great to look at pictures of abandoned sites. Here's two I have bookmarked. I'll have to figure out where I stashed the other links.

Underground Ozarks - http://undergroundozarks.com/

Fallout Urban Exploration - http://www.fallout-ue.com/locations/

[Mckma]

I've been meaning to run a zombie style apocalypse campaign set at the university my friends and I attend.  There is a lot of possibility, especially since it has a medical center, arboretum, and nuclear lab (along with the standard labs and classrooms).

[Setherick]

I've been meaning to run a zombie style apocalypse campaign set at the university my friends and I attend.  There is a lot of possibility, especially since it has a medical center, arboretum, and nuclear lab (along with the standard labs and classrooms).

Which Cali university are you at? Cal Poly?

[Mckma]

I've been meaning to run a zombie style apocalypse campaign set at the university my friends and I attend.  There is a lot of possibility, especially since it has a medical center, arboretum, and nuclear lab (along with the standard labs and classrooms).

Which Cali university are you at? Cal Poly?

University California Davis

[Setherick]

I've been meaning to run a zombie style apocalypse campaign set at the university my friends and I attend.  There is a lot of possibility, especially since it has a medical center, arboretum, and nuclear lab (along with the standard labs and classrooms).

Which Cali university are you at? Cal Poly?

University California Davis

Nice. One of my academic advisors almost went their to teach in the English department. They ended up taking his colleague instead, although his colleague had two PhDs (English and Political Science) and spoke something like five languages.