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I’ve never been to Las Vegas but I love it in concept because it sounds so made up. Imagine if you were reading a fantasy novel and they were like “smack in the middle of a deadly inhospitable desert there is a glittering city of indulgence and lawlessness and cheap sin that has specifically engineered itself to obfuscate your sense of time and keep you there as long as possible while they take all your valuables.” You’d be like yeah that’s some wizard shit.
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Places to add to my next DnD campaign:
- Las Vegas
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Add to that the fact that it was originally engineered by organized crime to ensnare workers who were working on the water-source that made living there possible
When a crime is just too good so the government legitimizes it.
If that was in a novel, you’d go “now the author is going a little heavy on the dystopian capitalism narrative, isn’t he? Who would do something so stupid and get away with it in real life?”
cheap sin
Funny, but nothing is cheap in Vegas. I’m surprised the sidewalks don’t charge for admission.
Relative to the price of eternal damnation, it’s not too bad.
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One time, I was trying to think of a fun way to have a Las Vegas style location in a D&D campaign, so I googled Las Vegas D&D and found a thread where someone in Vegas wanted to run a module. The thread was titled “Curse of Strahd in Las Vegas”, and that sent my mind to some interesting places.
Well now I badly want to run this and drop all the Curse of Strahd characters into a mobster-filled Vegas setting…
“Thanks to the mists, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Forever.”
Ooooo that’s good. Now I just need to figure out which casino would be Strahd’s castle. Caesar’s Palace seems fitting. Though I’d probably go alternate universe Vegas so I could retheme things more appropriately.
I’m a fan of the big glass pyramid, I think it was called The Luxor. Wonder if it’s still there
It is still there! I’d be tempted to make that the amber temple equivalent. Definitely still a fun point of interest!
Relevant username.
Pay not attention to what you behold, mortal. Lest I set my next goal of conquest upon your feeble slice of our timescape.
Ha. I’m currently putting together a campaign running CoS in Pathfinder. It’s a brilliant adventure.
That sounds awesome! Yeah I really love the way it’s structured and the characters. So it’s super fun to tweak.
I wouldn’t call it cheap sin, but yeah it’s a pretty accurate description.
You know just how far away from The Law that place was when the mob got its’ claws on it? That’s also the land where polygamy remained a standard practice until relatively recently.
That’s also the land where polygamy remained a standard practice until relatively recently
Are you talking about Vegas specifically? Or is that just a reference to the idea that Utah is in that same general western-US desert area?
Same remoteness that drew so many peculiar types there, out of necessity to do the things that they wanted to do.
Check out the 1994 “The Stand” miniseries or read the book by Stephen King. It explores the idea of the main bad guys and their leader, who is essentially the devil, taking up residence in Las Vegas.
Yes, it definitely is. Also in most dnd games, probably. Art imitating life.
It truly is evocative of some weird fey trap that enchants its victims into reveling their own lives away.
Already doing this! The Kingdom of Castravolva, run by the Rakshasa Castravolva! The only Rakshasa.
Got any fun fantasy themed casino games you can share?
Sadly no, I haven’t gotten that far yet. What I’ve got SO FAR is Castravolva is like the Rick from Rick and Morty, in the sense he is a genius, almost unstoppable asshole. As far as the actual city, I havn’treally touched it yet, I just have a basic concept of what it is. I WILL SAY however that it was inspired by my recent newly discovered love of Hockey and the knowledge that Las Vegas team is known as the GOLDEN KNIGHTS! (I may be incorrect on that, I am a mental case). Anyway, i havnt come up with any fantasy slot machines, but I am working up a tabletop ruleset for high fantasy hockey!
