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biblioprincessdalian
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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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.
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?
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.
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…
Relevant username.
“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.
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?”
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.
I wouldn’t call it cheap sin, but yeah it’s a pretty accurate description.
