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Lichtenstein
May 31, 2012

It'll make sense, eventually.
Finally gonna run my noir game set in 1980 Moscow. The trouble: I've got only one corkboard. Should I rather:

- Stick a city map on it, so that we can insert labeled pins for all sorts of murder/suspect locations players encounter along the way.
- Keep it plain, prepare some photos and a bunch of string, so the players can do a TV-style evidence board. We can grab a map and use it as a tablecloth-that-sometimes-is-a-useful-prop anyway.
- Compromise solution: prepare photos and poo poo in a relatively small size so we can pin them to the map where needed. Would probably make trying to read actual street names a pain in the rear end, but whatever, it's just there to look good. I'm not sure I have a map old enough to have all the old soviet street names anyway.

Assume no one else at the table has first-hand familiarity with the city, yet particular location details aren't very important (like, I could maybe drop a puzzle of "he couldn't have crossed half the city in 10 minutes like he said" and that's it). Then again, it's loving noir, so thinking too hard about details of the mystery isn't the point either. It's pretty much all about what will look most cool and will better set the mood.

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