More coincidences
So around 1997, the Dark Ages Companion came out for Vampire. I picked it up and was inspired to run a Vampire: The Dark Ages game (my first) which actually included 3 people on my current flist. The DAC was interesting, and Dark Ages rules better then 2e Masquerade (this was before Revised, mind) and the game became my second best Vampire game ever (other then the 7 year game of DOOOOM which had one common player, as I think of it).
Speaking of dark ages, this was before the time there was so much useful info on the internet. I had been on the web for like 4 years by that point, but there was way less info and way more midis and animated gifs then. Anyway, for a place I picked Zara, Hungary, a cool doomed city in Eastern Europe based on the information in Storyteller Secrets. I read it would fall in 1204 due to interference from Venice and the Fourth Crusade, so it made a good tragic setting that way. It went very well, and ended in 1998 or something like that.
So for the current Castle Falkenstein game (and don't worry, this is a very minor spoiler which won't ruin the story at all) I needed somewhere in Austria-Hungary which had a number of Italians and was not too far from Vienna. Port city would be ideal. I stumbled over Zadar, in modern Croatia but in Austria-Hungary at the time. It's like 6 hours by car, less by train, something they can daytrip. For initial scouting the Dragon and either Faerie in the party can fly there in an hour and a half, less with a good roll. So I did some digging around.
I'm going to assume people have guessed what is going on by now. I was reading about Zadar and it's history and it seemed familiar. I could not place it. I scanned and sure enough, Zadar is the current Croatian name...the Italian and German name is Zara. I was reading about a city I had run a game in 13 years ago. A game set in like 1198, but you know.
And I was amused by this. These little connections are interesting.
Speaking of dark ages, this was before the time there was so much useful info on the internet. I had been on the web for like 4 years by that point, but there was way less info and way more midis and animated gifs then. Anyway, for a place I picked Zara, Hungary, a cool doomed city in Eastern Europe based on the information in Storyteller Secrets. I read it would fall in 1204 due to interference from Venice and the Fourth Crusade, so it made a good tragic setting that way. It went very well, and ended in 1998 or something like that.
So for the current Castle Falkenstein game (and don't worry, this is a very minor spoiler which won't ruin the story at all) I needed somewhere in Austria-Hungary which had a number of Italians and was not too far from Vienna. Port city would be ideal. I stumbled over Zadar, in modern Croatia but in Austria-Hungary at the time. It's like 6 hours by car, less by train, something they can daytrip. For initial scouting the Dragon and either Faerie in the party can fly there in an hour and a half, less with a good roll. So I did some digging around.
I'm going to assume people have guessed what is going on by now. I was reading about Zadar and it's history and it seemed familiar. I could not place it. I scanned and sure enough, Zadar is the current Croatian name...the Italian and German name is Zara. I was reading about a city I had run a game in 13 years ago. A game set in like 1198, but you know.
And I was amused by this. These little connections are interesting.