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DAMNATION CITY:
District Map Segments
THIS EXIT
DAMNATION CITY
DAMNATION CITY
DAMNATION CITY
This free companion kit contains larger
versions of the nine map segments that Map Segments The Prince is the master of the city, but
appear in Damnation City, pp. 184–195, • Angled he has named you lord of your territory.
Are you a tyrant or a saint? Will you pull
plus two bonus maps. • Big Block/Downtown the Prince’s strings or become the Prince
In this packet, we present the maps • Boulevards yourself?
without the labels given with them in • Industrial
This book includes:
Damnation City. While each map was • Park
designed with a particular kind of neig- • Grid • Guides to selecting or designing
horbood in mind, whatever label you a modern city that’s right for your
want to put on one of these maps is just • Slums/Warrens chronicle, and giving that city the
World of Darkness’s gritty supernatural
as evocative as any we could put on them. • Waterfront atmosphere.
Cities come in all shapes, neighborhoods • Winding Streets
defy expectations, the cold lines of a map • Tools and tricks for running dramatic
and suspenseful stories in a crowded and shadowy city, including such
can’t always describe the sweaty details found at street level. Pairing new systems as “City of Millions” and “Attitude and Ambience.”
labels and maps is part of the brainstorming process, part of what
makes your own city unique. • New styles of gameplay for Vampire: The Requiem, called Barony
and Primacy, that take advantage of more than 50 urban Districts
What if those buildings in the Industrial map aren’t warehouses and unique Sites.
anymore, but condos? What if there’s a hospital in there, or a bunch of
underground nightclubs, or even a zoo? Are those circles on one of the • A guide to the fictional city of Newcastle — a new World of
bonus maps marking the location of English-style roundabouts, or are Darkness environment ready for you to customize and bring to life
in play, using any or all of the book’s dozens of optional rules.
they fountains, war memorials, or the legs of an overpass?
For quick guidelines on combining these map segments into larger 400 pages • ISBN: 978-1-58846-267-1 • WWXXXXX
urban landscapes, see “Putting It Together” on p. 195 of Damnation
City. Change the sense of scale on these maps by printing them out at Click below to order your copy:
different sizes, or expanding them 10-25% or more on a photocopier. DAMNATION CITY HARDCOVER
Cut out parts of the map you like and tape them on another map. Get
a black marker and draw in a new river. Make them yours. DAMNATION CITY eBOOK
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Requiem, Werewolf the Forsaken, Mage the Awakening, Promethean the Created, Storytelling System and Damnation City are trademarks of CCP, Inc. All rights reserved. All characters, names, places and text herein are copyrighted by CCP, Inc. The mention of or reference to any company or product in these pages is not a challenge to the trademark or Designed by:
copyright concerned. This book uses the supernatural for settings, characters and themes. All mystical and supernatural elements are fiction and intended for entertainment purposes only. This product contains mature content. Reader discretion is advised.
Will Hindmarch & Craig S Grant
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HANDSOME PARK
DAMNATION CITY
BARREN PARK
What kind of a park lies at the center
needles or sharp grass growing of this bombed-out District? Once it was a
around rusted cars. nice, green place, where the families of fac-
What kind of buildings are tory workers barbecued and played baseball.
long and low? Wide kind of The rows of multi-family housing that faced
buildings are wide and flat? the park were envied back then. But tonight
We’re probably looking at ware- the park is a stretch of dead leaves, brown
houses, factories, single-story ponds that smell like gas and piss, all punc-
strip-malls, row houses, junk- tuated with half-dead trees and vandalized
yards, mechanic’s shops, and the oddball apartment or office building playground equipment. In a way, the park
left over from the nights when this neighborhood was something closer itself is undead — poisoned by chemical
to thriving. Tonight it’s a mix of ruins and rehabs, with chain-link and runoff from the nearby factories.
vines all around. More windows are broken than not. Kids come here Or maybe it’s all the park’s fault.
to do a little UE (urban exploring) so they can put pictures on their Maybe the park was ruined first by the
websites, but those kids disappear. Their shoes and clothes end up as kids who turned it into a garden of sin, slipping away behind the trees to
curiosities in some brick-studded empty lot. fuck, drink, and abuse themselves with drugs. Their vice attracted those
The low buildings here means that sound travels differently. Line of who would feed on it — dealers to feed their habits, and vampires to take
sight is different. Crazed dogs bark... somewhere in the distance. Head- advantage of their addled bodies. Once the shadow of fear fell across the
lights go by on the other side of a rotten fence, in the middle of the park, it was surrendered to those who dwell inside fear. Once a Kindred
night. A gunshot cuts through the night. landlord got his fangs in the neighborhood’s flesh, it was doomed. He
It’s lonely here. Out here by yourself, you’re stealthy or you’re vulnerable. pushed the neighborhood lower and lower, making feeding easier and
easier, until missing persons and sexual assaults were so common that
most of the kine drifted away. The Kindred pushed too hard. Now the
neighborhood is bleeding out.
The 3D buildings in this booklet were created using the free version of
Google SketchUp™ (www.sketchup.com). With it, you can create rough
versions of your own Districts’ buildings, adding a new dose of visual power
to your chronicle. (White Wolf Publishing is not affiliated with Google.)
ABOUT ATMOSPHERE
ephemera, the delicate something that makes without the sodium-orange glow of
the setting’s inherent character get inside the streetlamps on them? The vampire
your audience — the players — like smoke doesn’t know.
seeping in through the pores. It’s difficult to
DAMNATION CITY
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BOULEVARDS
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MAP SEGMENTS
INDUSTRIAL
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PARK
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GRID
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GRID
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GRID
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SLUMS/WARRENS
MAP SEGMENTS
WATERFRONT
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WINDING STREETS
MAP SEGMENTS