Just thought I'd share some links that folks have sent along to me, that are of interest to UnderWorld fans:
An Automated UnderWorld Character Generator (http://light.mth.uct.ac.za/david/gaming/uwutilities/uwcg.html)
The Official Site of the Twin-Cities UnderWorld LARP (http://www.head-count.com/)
A Miami New Times article from 1997 about the myths being spread nation-wide among children in homeless shelters...very cool. (http://www.miaminewtimes.com/issues/1997-06-05/feature.html/page1.html) (actually....this one is great fodder for creating Legendaries in UW. I've also heard that it's under treatment for a possible movie.)
Hell-Cat Maggie (http://cabinet.editthispage.com/stories/storyReader$334), a historical figure: a member of the NYC gangs around the turn of the century.
A Collection of Urban Fantasy Links (http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Genres/Fantasy/Urban_Fantasy/)
Well, that's a good enough start. So, let's hear from you guys: post your favorite UnderWorld-fodder here!
GMS
There's a whole lot of reference material on the urban exploration sites... check out
Infiltration and
Dark PassageThis is another good starting point...
Mr. Even's Analytical Lexicon of Fumonyms is full of inspirational steampunky goodness for artificiers!
Here's another cool link for UnderWorld stuff:
A random title generator: http://title.flywheel.org/
Great for coming up with titles for Lords and others in the UnderWorld. For example, ten random results:
1: Supplicant of The Christopher Walken Bank and Trust, S. Francis de la Lichtenthal
2: Mighty Knight of Very Little, Master Pollux Nelson
3: Pasha of The Ministry of Haberdashers, P. Zuul Mustard
4: Grand Priestess Emeritus of Wee Ceramic Kittens, Haley Bauer
5: Royal Ambassador of The Black Army of Objectivism, F. E. Fuller XI
6: Bard of Yesterday Morning, W. "Magic Marker" Morissette
7: Friar of Black Helicopters, Caleb Cummings
8: Alderman of The Sidewalk Coalition, H. B. Kline
9: Mecha-Abbot of The Ministry of Pimpin' Hos, John Reepicheep Leventhal
10: Funkmistress of The Black Army of Mysterious Briefcases, Melanie Themeke
See what I mean? This is friggin' PERFECT!
GMS
I love it.
Quote from: GMSkarka
Mighty Knight of Very Little
Funkmistress of The Black Army of Mysterious Briefcases
Two incredibly cool instant characters! Rock!
Also check out the "They fight crime!" random generator mentioned in another forum: http://www.rain-street.org/fightcrime.htm
Just tried it and it gave me: "He's a suicidal hunchbacked cowboy. She's a beautiful impetuous politician living homeless in New York's sewers. They fight crime!"
Hey, this could even fit the Mighty Knight and the Funkmistress!
Jürgen Mayer
Click on "Visite Virtuelle." The links in the first grey box are to photos. The links in the other boxes are to clickable maps; each link is to multiple photos. I have lost count of how many.
And then there is the video.
Wooga. I love the internet.
http://perso.club-internet.fr/cedmart/
Here's a great drawing of a junkman villain (http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/zone/l/i/lipatov1/robot.gif.html)
More fodder for your imagination: The "Carceri d'Invenzione (http://sunsite.dk/cgfa/piranesi/)" engravings by Giovanni Piranesi done in the 18th century look like places you'd find in the Underworld.
Quote from: NoelMore fodder for your imagination: The "Carceri d'Invenzione (http://sunsite.dk/cgfa/piranesi/)" engravings by Giovanni Piranesi done in the 18th century look like places you'd find in the Underworld.
That's some great stuff....
I think I'm going to have to look into where these are now collected, to check into reproduction permission for UW2.
GMS
Something that I found on MetaFilter earlier in the week: @149st (http://www.at149st.com/), a site about graffiti in NYC. It has a ton of links, most of which I haven't had time to explore, but at the very least it should provide some imagery and lingo to use.
Hello
Someone just posted this over at RPG.net and I think I've seen it before so i'm sure others have as well but it is just so underworld that it deserves reposting
check it out
http://www.bullatomsci.org/issues/1997/mj97/mj97ilnitsky.html
Jeremy
Yeah, that's a pretty cool one. I just printed it out here at work, so I can add it to my file of UnderWorld stuff.
I'm always looking for more stuff like that. Instant adventure ideas.
GMS
I submitted Dimensional's link to a blog (
BoingBoing) that I thought would like it... a few days later it showed up on
Bruce Sterling's blog, and then today on Metafilter where the community has turned up a slew or
related links.
Kinda fun to a watch a meme
propagate through the web in real-time!
From the 6/19 issue of Salon.com, a cool story about Paris' cataphiles:
http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/06/19/catacombs/index.html
GMS
This list http://www.slackaction.com/signroll.htm of hobo signs is vaguely Underworldy.
Check this out!
http://mall.rpg.net/product_info.php?products_id=190&PHPSESSID=1fc7dae48c0bd890dd13f242673860f8
Not 100% applicable, since UnderWorld isn't really a maps and miniatures type of game. But still kind of neat, and maybe useful. :)