Lakefront City map question

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Hello all,

Over the past weekend I was overjoyed to find a first edition copy of Gangbusters at a local bookstore. I snapped this beauty up for $8.50 without a second thought.

Unfortunately after I got my prize home I found that everything was there but the large Lakefront City map.

My question is this, how essential is that map to play the game?
Can I recreate the map or do have to wait and see if a copy of the map only shows up on e-bay?

Thanks,

--Michael

[rick krebs]

Sorry, but my photography skills aren't the best for this, but I uploaded the 2 sides of the map at the following links.

www.mediafire.com/i/?6tkwt58u52grsxo

www.mediafire.com/i/?dclj1any4mbk191

I'm sure a white board could also be used to lay out your city and buildings.

[Finarvyn]

Map isn't needed. The map of the city is amazingly similar to Chicago and Rick has already posted images of the storefront maps. I usually make up my own locations, anyway. (Actually, I find that almost every city in every genre looks a lot like Judges Guild's CSIO. The CSIO was a starport for me once in a Star Wars game. )

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Thanks very much for those shots of the map Rick.

I'm guessing the graph looks about .5 inch squares?

I like cartography, so I should be able to recreate something like that in AutoRealm.

And Fin thanks for the suggestion about making up my own locations. I'm thinking of a late 30's Cleveland Ohio sandbox setting already.

Though Lakefront City is the default does anyone know of any unoffical settings for Gangbusters that have already been written up?

[Finarvyn]

Sept 27, 2010 9:18:52 GMT -6 @scrootch said:

And Fin thanks for the suggestion about making up my own locations. I'm thinking of a late 30's Cleveland Ohio sandbox setting already.

The thing is, when I use someone else's setting I feel like I have to "know" the setting -- the proper NPCs, locations, and so on. When I make up a setting I don't feel that restriction.

[rick krebs]

I agree totally with Fin, designing your own city and buildings are always preferable. We used to use single sheets of graph or plain paper to design individual buildings and lay them out on a miniatures/ping pong table and used rulers for larger movement. Here are some examples done for early B20s:

bloody20s.blogspot.com/2009/04/legendery-locale-2.html

bloody20s.blogspot.com/2009/04/blog-post.html

Anybody planning on running a game with a boardwalk ?

[barrataria]

Sept 27, 2010 9:18:52 GMT -6 @scrootch said:

And Fin thanks for the suggestion about making up my own locations. I'm thinking of a late 30's Cleveland Ohio sandbox setting already.

I sketched out a Cleveland-based Lakefront City for a superhero game that I never got around to running... it seemed to mesh pretty nicely, if you are thinking of plunking the GB storefronts map into downtown Cleveland. In my case, I was going to be running a modern game so I just took google maps snapshots and superimposed various new names on them.

As to your question of pre-made GB settings, I don't know of any. You might be able to use things from Call of Cthulhu, although those won't have stats.

The Marvel Superheroes game from TSR issued maps with the box set and the "New York, New York" supplement that look an awful lot like the GB maps. You'll have to explain, say Avengers Mansion You might stumble on those on ebay or in a used bookstore. I lived in NYC for several years so I'd never use them for that (since virtually nothing is actually from NY), but they'd probably work as a fake city.

If and when I ever get to run GB again I will dust off my San Francisco campaign, this time with a much, much more interesting map (big graphic):

www.ronhenggeler.com/History/cartoon_map.htm

Note the "Mission Rock" pier and schooner near it...

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Rick,

Thanks for those examples I shall have to dig deeper on your official blog ;D

Barrataria,
Thanks for the suggestions as well I have to remember google maps is my friend. There is also a website called the Cleveland Memory Project that has many old photos for that era. Looks like it's research time.

[sammarlow]

barrataria, do you have any details on you San Francisco campaign. I'd be interested to see how you ran it.