How do I make a sandbox set in Las Vegas?
What would you do? How could casinos work? Would you put other places/towns in it?
>>54290025
lots and lots of drugs
>>54290195
I already put it in.Picture is not yet finished, I screwed it up.
>>54290025
What kind of game is it? Modern fantasy, realistic, something else? You need some direction to figure out your focus.
>How could casinos work?
They're places to meet, to sleep, to grab a bite or whatever. Sure there's all those tables and slots but those are background elements. Spending your time throwing money away is boring; focus on what the characters are doing and how they're using the casino as a cover or whatever. If that makes sense.
>>54290355
It's VtM, I've already made post about it few months ago, meanwhile we have played only once, and this weekend we'll have another game.
>>54290426
I haven't been on /tg/ in weeeks, but that gives me a little more focus. Keep in mind, I'm not too familiar with VtM and I'm drunk so I'm probably going to toss some shit ideas at you.
I'd vaguely flesh out towns as an option that the PCs are aware of, where things are happening or whatever, but unless the players actively seek one out, reserve them as an option to shake things up for a session or two. Change of scenery and all that. I don't know what's around Vegas so that's where research/pulling things out your ass comes into play.
If this is vampires we're talking about, definitely emphasize the night life and weirdness therof or something. Casinos with their operating all day and night would definitely be hotspots for activity, possibly some as Elysiums?
What's your group like? Both players and characters. The thing about sandboxes is that they are going to rely on the PCs and their motivations to move the game along. You'll have to have a decent amount of base material flesshed out to roll with that and give them options, but their intersests are going to shape where you put your effort.
>>54290653
Great, I'm drunk too.
I've made story about Vampires, Camarilla involved with Mafia, and every PC is involved somehow, like one player plays as ex "fixer", now he's Nosferatu, two characters were supposed to bring drugs from LA to LV, but were stopped by hitchhikers and turned into vampires, one character was a Hungarian shoe maker's apprentice and died during Spanish plague that became mobster, and so on.