[UA] In Defense of Baltimore

[Eric Brennan]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Warble" <wsteve at diamondcomics.com>
To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 3:31 PM
Subject: [UA] In Defense of Baltimore


>
> > >     If you're planning on having a lot of cops in your game, I
recommend
> > > David Simon's _Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets_.  The book is
> > > nonfiction set in Baltimore, which is far away from nearly everyplace
> you're
> > > considering, but the principles of American policework are pretty much
>
>
> DELURK
>
> Howdy all...
>
> As far as Baltimore being "far away from nearly everyplace you're
> considering", let us not forget...
>
> Less than an hour from Washington, DC
>
> Less than an hour from the US Army chemical warfare labs, storage
> facilities, and dumping grounds of the Aberdeen Proving Grounds
>
> Home to Johns Hopkins, where you know all kind of black ops medical
> experimentation and genetic crap is going on in the basement.

    Johns Hopkins seems like a poor choice for genetic crap, I say, having
been the beneficiary of their largesse in the past.  For that title I'd
recommend Walter Reed Army Medical Hospital, a scant 30 minutes from
Bawlmer, where they treat the President as well as the home of a major
artifact: the bullet that killed Lincoln.  (They've got it in a case, and it
looks like it's still got Lincoln-matter on it.  It's pretty cool, and the
minute I saw it I thought: Major Plot Hook.)
    The entire Lincoln assassination is ripe with stuff to base a
Maryland/DC UA game on (as is Poe...the mysterious visitor to his grave
every year is just so cool...).
    Eric "Glad to see Maryland getting its props" Brennan




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