On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 7:32 AM Timothy Collinson - timothy.collinson at port.ac.uk (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

Hi there,

I was exploring Charles Booth's maps of London:
https://booth.lse.ac.uk/
and didn't get very far before I found something that struck me as "made for Traveller" [1] - just about the first thing I clicked on.
https://booth.lse.ac.uk/map/14/-0.1174/51.5065/100/0

That is an astonishingly well done map (I mean, in terms of the look and the precision - can't tell the accuracy).

Note the legend.

This is almost Social Standing verbatim and I'm now thinking how much players would love a starport/city map that coloured streets by Social Standing of occupants! Places to avoid, places to seek out! Need to find an NPC who can do a job for you? Need to find one who can supply you with a certain illegal something? Need to know where your Patron's latest job is sending you? Just want to visit the "interesting" pubs after a long week in Jump?

Are you the noble looking to go slumming?

Are you the steward directing the passengers to tours of the historically rich areas?

Are you the army corporal looking for the places where the cards are hot, the beer is cold, and there might just be a brawl?

Are you the merchant trying to move a somewhat dodgy cargo without much official notice?

Are you the private operative looking to report to your rich patrons?

That is interesting.

Of course, for Referees, preparing such a map would be a lot of work and perhaps it could be abstracted somewhat up from street level (although that's kind of the fun of it). But maybe it could be done semi-randomly using standard distribution of Social Standing (which is, after all, just a straight 2D roll) and Michael Brown's excellent _Locale_ type work.

Reminds me of my human geography course at university where we learned about why people and businesses located in different locations and how things like rivers, major roads, etc. changed the locations, etc.

I think most times you see (in fantasy maps) cities broken into wards/quarters/sections/etc, they usually do a colour overlay to show the extents of the regions. That could be enough.

hmmm, <wonders off rethinking a half idea about a _Supplement 12_ adventure about warring crime gangs>

tc

[1] There is no truth to the rumour that I can look at *anything* and see 'made for Traveller'. Well, not much.

That's just something I was thinking last night while looking at the relationship between France, her departments, her collectivities, and the odd beast that is the islands of New Caledonia. I learned about new forms of relationships with ex-colonies and that could be used when writing up a world that had been around a while and had a colonial period (or even just a balkanized world).

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