>>97908242
Berlin with its accepted and endless squalor. Walking there even now generates possibilities for adventure by every crackpot that inhabits the street.

>>97908242
Retard.

>>97908242
Cleveland, Ohio

>>97908242
Tokyo, unironically.

>>97908242
I gotta be honest, unless you have some irrational fear of other humans what would be the word for that? “anthrophobia”? I don’t know cities mostly aren’t all that inherently scary. Like I’ve been to places like LA, San Diego, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Seattle, Philadelphia, etc… they’re all honestly no more innately “creepy” than anywhere else…

Maybe some super small, underpopulated town like Chloride AZ, can kinda invoke a certain feeling of awkwardness when walking the streets because you’re likely the ONLY one just walking around and you aren’t entirely sure what’s a shop, what’s a house, what’s open, what’s closed, and when you are in a store you’re the only customer, so it feels awkward…

I mean you ever walk into a restaurant and there’s only 1 waitress and every table’s empty? It’s that kind of awkward, everywhere you go.

But that’s not really a foundation for an “urban Horror”

Now, there are some cities that I think would work well if you wanted to do, say, a sci-fi story, and there’s some that I think would work well for an “urban high-fantasy” adventure. Generally speaking, some very old or very eccentric cities (you know which ones) wouldn’t surprise you in the slightest to find gremlins lurking around in some abandoned basement, or something.

>>97908424
Things keep crawling out of the lake. Sometimes they snatch people off the street but mostly they go to the Hall of Fame.

>>97908443
Dude, chill. You’re acting like OP kicked your puppy or something. You need to relax.

>>97908546
>"SPOONFEED ME" makes a thread a good contribution to the board
Fuck off.

>>97908530
>Maybe some super small, underpopulated town
This. Goes for Europe too, because lots of country towns are near abandoned now, so you have main streets that consist almost entirely of shuttered shops

>>97908530
>they’re all honestly no more innately “creepy” than anywhere else
Yes. Fear is in the mind. It begins there, it lives there, it's you that is afraid. Horror does not exist beyond yourself.
Only by understanding this can one begin to construct a horror game.
>>97908242
You don't know what makes people afraid. You only know what you are afraid of, and you want others to be afraid of it, too, in order to validate and externalize your fear. That won't work.
If you want your players to be afraid, you have lure them into that state of mind. Easier said than done, because to know the minds of others you must understand your own.
And you do not.

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>>97908549
>few of you that actually go outside and travel
That "those few of you that actually go outside and travel" hit a nerve, didn't it?

>>97908443
>you should not discuss things on the discussion board

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Philly.

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>>97908261
Actually thought of Berlin as well.

>>97908242
Omsk

>>97908777
I have no clue what that sign says

>>97908242
i'm not a weeb but i always thought small japanese towns were perfect for paranormal horror. something about how cramped and yet isolated they are seems kind of surreal to me. the old architecture, shrines, and cemeteries add to it as well. they're not exactly urban but they're as close to it as you can get while maintaining the sense of isolation that is so helpful in cultivating the feeling of helplessness which i consider a primary element of horror. there are probably other parts of the world with small but cramped towns or isolated urban districts like kowloon, but i'm not aware of them as far as i can recall.

the original terminator movie did a good job of creating a sense of isolation by making the police useless and the general public selfish and vapid so los angeles became a kind of lonely labyrinth for sarah connor. any city known for it's selfishness and corruption or incompetence would probably work well.

>>97908242
Birmingham, England.
It's got
Racial ghettoes, fent AND spice zombies, a corrupt local government, and the bin men are on strike, so there's scavengable garbage everywhere.
Also, at night the canals are an open pvp zone.

>>97908777
What is it actually with Berlin and scat and vomit orgies
Every travel story about Berlin seems to involve them at least tangentially

>>97908895
Given the history of Berlin throughout the 20th century and what it’s been host to in that time, I can see how it could foster a local culture around doing everything and anything to achieve complete disassociation from reality.

>>97908866
You know there are automatic translation tools available when you don't speak the language?
>Shitting, pissing, and puking orgies are taking place here in this building! I am fed up with having to listen to it. That's why I have now contacted the property management. And my neighbor has, too, by the way. Choke on your shit!!!

>>97908242
Right now I'm in Granada (Spain). Pretty cool place, full of old and new buildings, with an intersting intersection of cultures. It certainly lends herself for urban terror

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I always got this feeling from weird, isolated places within big urban areas. Broad Channel in NYC is a literal isolated maritime village in the middle of an uninhabited wetlands in the city. It feels like stepping into a forgotten twilight zone.

Any city in England especially the two biggest shit holes London and Birmingham.

Fuck those two places in particular, not that where I live is much better

>>97908242
The one you know best. That's all that really matters. Your knowledge of the city will be a thousand times more relevant than any feature of the city itself.

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>>97908242
One you feel safe into, and which suddenly isn't.

Take Las Vegas. Peel off the lights and the laughter, the glamour of luck and the music, wake up into the storm drains with nothing but the company of unknown people, hear the sounds of water and realize it's time for cleansing the penniless filth again. And you have become part of the sacrifice.

>>97909291
London is rich, cosmopolitan and extremely safe. More CCTV per person than even China. Any Lovecraftian beastie or slasher is likely to be detained and asked for its sanity-devouring loicense before it does any damage.
Birmingham is a proper shithole though, excellent for urban horror, as are Glasgow and Manchester.

>>97909318
Yeah fucking right, didn't you see the recent crime spree in one of the boroughs last month? The one that had an M&S (middle class supermarket chain) speak out against the mayor of London for not policing London better.

Trust me dude London seems great but its a complete utter shit hole

>>97909318
>London is rich, cosmopolitan and extremely safe.
Having been there I can say that lasts only until 10:00pm on the dot. You lot are very punctual like that.

>>97908579
Which game is this parasitic spoonsucking being used for?

>>97909291
>Fuck those two places in particular, not that where I live is much better
The Norf remembers buddy. One day we'll be deshittificated.

>>97909327
Close that GB News and take an pacifier before posting here again, Baz.

>>97908242
Montreal definitely has a few idiosyncrasies to it that could lend themselves to horror.
>narrow staircases everywhere, both on the inside and outside of buildings
>still have fucking cobblestones in Old Montreal
>western city, western city, DRAGON GATE, Chinatown, Chinatown, Chinatown, DRAGON GATE, western city, western city
>old churches everywhere but also being Catholic is forbidden
>unless you're truly bilingual, it's entirely possible to take a wrong turn and end up somewhere where nobody speaks your language
>worst maintained roads in the world
It can honestly sometimes feel like you've ended up in a different city after only a few minutes, which I always consider to be a useful tool in horror.
>end up in a primarily francophone area because you missed a turn
>not sure how you did that, but the street you thought you were supposed to turn at was a one-way street headed in the opposite direction
>truly lost, eventually stop for directions
>they don't speak English
>whatever, Mount Royal's in that direction, just head towards the St. Lawrence and you should hit Autoroute 138
>taking a bit longer than you think it should
>stop for directions
>still no English
>starting to get dark
>pothole claims a tire, Pothole II: Son of Pothole claims the spare
>No Parking signs everywhere
>stop someone for help
>no English
>can't shake the feeling that isn't French, either

>>97909347
Are you still going at it, faggot? How about you touch some actual grass so mentions of outside don't cause you to mentally disintegrate every time you see them?

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>>97909388
Old Montreal is GOATed both as a horror setting and in general.

>>97908242
Combine the architecture, economy + crime of St. Louis, climate + gloominess of Upstate NY, geographical isolation of Minneapolis and density + ethnic make up of Philly, culture + social pathologies of NOLA and you've got yourself an ideal urban horror city.

Highly depends on the flavour of the horror.

Dubai could probably work for something surreal as fuck, Lagos for something borderline cyberpunk and gritty (but not necessarily that dooming), Colorado Springs as some borderline King in Yellow mindfuckery thing (I took the most rightwing USA city I can think of).

>>97908868

Always felt this is less a consequence of japs building/roads being small and more how their cities generally stop right at the foot of the hills, actually.
The labyrinthine feel of boom city centers helps tough.

>>97909347
They asked this exact question with the same image for Esoterrorists/Fear Itself in /hsg/.

>>97908242
Hong Kong.

>old abandoned British-era infrastructure, sometimes surrounded by modern skyscrapers.
>massive graveyards and Chinese ghost traditions
>abandoned mansions, schools, and villages, sometimes with the skyscrapers of the city itself visible through vines and overgrowth.
>massive concrete structures that have illegal adding and tower into the sky and surround you.

If you set it in the 80’s, you can even use the Kowloon Walled City, which was terrifying in its own right despite the fact that your neighbors could hear you.

Did I mention that Birmingham has rats the size of dogs, and is currently being taken over by Islamists?
It's also a major nerve center of the human trafficking rings operating in Northern Europe.
It's got this weird mix of old churches, and art deco architecture, slowly decaying into nothing, or else taken over by spidery growths of ugly modernist tat in the business districts, or a neon striplight garbage jungle haunted by junkies and hookers in the outskirts.

My friends were robbed on the canals by a black fella with a Wakizashi, so there's a fair argument that it also has Ninjas.

>>97908242
Bangkok

>>97909730

Apparently KWC was nice to live in, society-wise (I suspect this was to mean "nicer for poor people than the rest", but still).

Would make a cool contrast.

>>97909898
>black fella with a Wakizashi, so there's a fair argument that it also has Ninjas.
Ah yes, they encountered Yasuke.

I mean to be fair to Birmingham, there is one thing it doesn't have.
Purple Aki

>>97908242
Philly

>>97908242
Probably one of New Zealand's historical cities. It's first world enough that it's familiar at a glance to any person with western aesthetics but being an island nation with no where to escape to for safety makes it a prime closed room.
The saccharine exterior and good marketing makes it easy to hide a horrific interior and the lack of military means the day isn't going to be saved by Militia Ex Machina.

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>>97909974
It's less so the people there, and moreso the environment

Stockholm. The islands, the river, the different shores. Though, maybe replace the Swedes with a culture that collectively has a spine.

>>97910255
Wouldn't the locals being cephalopods just help in an urban horror setting?
You try to go to the cops about the vampire slaughter house and they start going "Hur de dur, we shall call in the social wurkers, Bork Bork." before not doing anything and pretending you never reported it in the first place because they think it's immigrants or some shit?

>>97908242
I am surprised nobody mentioned Moscow yet. It is one of the most dreadful large cities out there. It really looks like something out of an urban horror game. I would also like to add Instabul to the mix for very different reasons

>>97910170
New zealand does not have any “historical cities”

>>97910255
Stockholm is just comfy
Although being around there at midsummer is a lil eerie since the city's empty

>>97910320
Didn't the Maori only arrive there like 200 years or so before Europeans?

>>97909392
How about you talk about some fucking GAMES on the BOARD FOR GAMES you shitslurping retard?

>>97910784
Start any time, fag. Practice what you preach for once.

>>97908242
New Orleans, ignore all the other answers. That city and all of Louisiana really is cursed, whether it’s the history of suffering, high crime rates, natural disasters, or spooky folklore.

>>97908242
Depends on what you're going for. Are we talking like a Night City Cyberpunk feel. Then New York, Tokyo, Miami would be a good fit compare to a a small town in the middle of nowhere which works better for a more horror type of feel. Especially if you broke down there and all. Maybe you're going for more a western vibe or a Mountain man kind of feel. It all depends on themes you're looking for.

>>97908242
Depends on what type of urban horror you're looking for, really.
If you want to do some cosmic horror lovecraftian stuff, then a really old place built on top of even older, stranger places works really well. Think Istanbul, Rome, Damascus, places that have a truly ancient feel to them, that harbor secrets older than themselves, perhaps older than all of civilization.
If you want to do that sort of weird occult urban horror, ala Kult or Unknown Armies, then have it be one of those big, modern, well-lit cities, but the ones that still have an underside of urban decay. The bigger it is the more that shit hides in plain sight, in apartments no one's bothered to check for years, or in street corners people know to avoid but don't know the reason, places like NYC or Hong Kong come to mind.
Course you could also go for creepypasta-esque nostalgia stuff, in which case a small town in the suburbs works really well, or even better the place you or your players grew up in.
If you're looking for something Vodoo you can go for New Orleans, if you're looking for something Gothic you can go for St. Louis, if you want vampires you can go to like, Romania.
It entirely depends on what you want to go for.

Newark, New Jersey

>>97912168
Might as well set it in NYC

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>>97908261
Cologne also gives you a wide array of stuff to pull from

>myth has it the grand cathedrals construction time was sped up by its architect making a pact with the devil (and later commiting suicide because of it)
>precursor of the grand cathedral was said to be haunted by demons
>the grand cathedral is actually cursed by Satan
>the mortal remains of the three magi present for jesus birth are said to be interred inside the cathedral
>is one of the wealthiest hotspots of catholic church in the entire world
>is a centre of Opus Dei
>german media capital
>centre of catholic faith, but also very liberal in terms of LGBTQ
>hotspot for carnival (haunted clown shit might work here)
>legends of Heinzelmännchen (essentially fae) getting involved with craftsmens work at night

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>>97908613

Homeless people used to be skilled workers and travelers. Now they're drug zombies. What happened?

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>>97908242

Milwaukee WI is underrated. You could play with the Wisconsin serial killer lore, the huge contrast between poor and rich areas, the rust belt aesthetics, etc.

80's San Francisco, 90's Seattle, or 00's Denver could be really interesting too. In general I avoid 2020's as a setting since players will want stuff like drones and it's harder to get away with stuff in the era of Flock cameras.

>>97908931
>known as "Babylon Berlin" (as in degeneracy) during the Weimar republic
>horrors of WW2
>east/ west divide
>berlin blockade of western side
>surveillance state in the eastern side
>glowies everywhere
>ground zero for the berlin wall
>hippie and alternative commune centre
>birthplace (?) of techno
>hotspot for arab mafia clans
>notoriously poor and mismanaged city-state
>dysfunctional city administration
>breeding den of commies, leftists, wokes, green ideologues and other scum
seems like the cities natural fate, to be a den of degeneracy and dysfunctionality.

perhaps its Adolfs spirit cursing the place as one last fuck you

>>97912857
The ones that live on the street are genuine mental cases that were either always crazy or snapped through months of rough living and/or drug use. The liquidation of mental asylums throughout America is directly correlated with the rise of “crazy” homeless.

>>97912105
How am I supposed to know which game OP is going to use his inspirations for if he doesn't specify it?

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>>97908242
thanks, OP
this thread is golden

>>97908443
Take it easy bro

>>97909392
Take it easy bro

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>>97908242
I am from Poland think that Lodz would be a fantastic setting for horror. For several reasons
>history
History of the city is quite complex, but mostly existed as a small village (Lodz translates to boat... which is interesting because there is no major waterway in the area, so already mysterious name) but later during industrialisation grew to city-size. During industrialisation, many worked in factories and so forth.
>the war
So let's time skip to more modern history. Lodz during ww2 had some serious shit go down. There were childrens prison camps, where kids were used as slave labour, there were lots of intelligence agents, shootings, murders, disappearances, and so forth. Plenty of basis to create a horror hook. Many of the people guilty fled, changing names (e.g., one such german changed his name and identity and went on to become highly praised in german policing in the 1980s and 90s...).
During Soviet times, there were similar stories, and the city was bombed during ww2 and never quite recovered. Today, you can see the scars still as work never ends to try and repair what was lost. Again, another hook for horror (uncovering something etc).

Lodz architecture is all over the place, from grim and depressing commie blocks in Widzew to mixture of 1880s English inspired brick constructions, to old school nobility style in the main street. Plenty of warped looking neighbourhoods with 3-4 different architectural inspirations can create a kind of schizophrenic feeling.

>>97913110
You had me at Poland

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>>97908242
Any mid-sized Rust Belt city.

>>97912737
You could get a lot of mileage by having a campaign set in the Greater New York Metro Area, I think. Something like the Sopranos but set in WoD

>>97914231
NYC is too sterile and gentrified for that sort of thing nowadays. Better set it in Philly or Upstate NY.

>>97913971
What the FUCK is this?

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>>97914256

Where are all these upper middle class people coming from anyways? Where do they all work? You always hear about tech being oversaturated, white collar workers being laid off, colleges closing down because because Zoomers aren't going anymore etc.

But every city seems to be gentrifying or rapidly expanding its suburbs.

>>97914412
Boomers are starting to die off, and some millennials are finding themselves with new windfalls.

>>97914412
Zoomers are actually coming back from the suburbs to live their heckin' walkable 15-minute city dream and gentrify ethnics away from inner cities

>>97914481
Good, cities used to be the home of the white man, and by jove they will be again

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Kyoto has a good mix of modern Japan and ancient history. Lots of tourists who can potentially take a wrong turn and stumble onto spooky stuff.

>>97913971
>>97914260
Peak comfy, is what it is.

>>97910372
I hate those child killing cannibal fucks as much as any man, but they did beat us here by five hundred years or so, giving them plenty of time to kill off all the really interesting birds and regress technologically because apparently even the late stone age was too hard for them.

>>97914911
DESU, almost out of all the abos and Indians worldwide, Maori seem the least chimped out and most urbane. Silly ooga booga dances aside.

>>97914929
Being more urbane than people who drink petrol in industrial quantities and the rape capital of earth is a fuckin low bar anon.

>>97910320
The Hobbiton set doesn't count?

>>97912857
Money is completely worthless through inflation thus people are entirely priced out of goods
Regulation and bureaucracy have made various licenses, trainings, and insurances a necessity to operate where they weren't needed just to deliver a subpar product compared to the rigorous craftsmanship of the old who had none of it.
Social atomization combined with social stagnation has destroyed the culture of teaching children the trades of their fathers, adults are having to start learning from scratch while being undercut by others desperate for a job who can ship the money out to somewhere its worth more
The destruction of asylums due to a few abuse cases means that the actually insane just end up on the streets instead, you have to burn a lot of bridges to end up not even with a couch to surf
lots of factors

>>97916286
Services not goods
Goods are cheap. It no longer costs a months wage to own a refrigerator or washing machine.
Schools, housing, leisure and health are out of the price range of people too disorganised or disoriented to have planned ahead.

>>97908242
Atlanta.
The layout makes zero sense effectively turning it into a labyrinth.
It's absurdly violent making a great PvE and PvP locale.
It has a ridiculous amount of historical shit laying around next to modern day marvels lending to it being a kitchen sink setting.

I cannot stress this enough. Never go to Atlanta. Nothing good will come of it. You can park your shit box car behind seven layers of secure gates that you need to pay to access and your catalytic converter will still be sawed off and your loved ones raped before you walk ten feet away from it to visit a coca-cola museum.

God, I hate Atlanta so much it's unreal.

>>97916310
>It no longer costs a months wage to own a refrigerator or washing machine.
No, instead it takes ten years to fully pay off a home instead of three, it takes years to pay off a car instead of under a year, and it takes hours to pay for food that 30 minutes used to buy. Appliances don't matter when the basic necessities of food, housing, and transportation are hopelessly inflated. Cars used to be so affordable that the entire industry of muscle cars was made just to cater to teens and young adults. Now, because of shit like cash for clunkers, even 20 year old basic shitboxes are double the price and impossible to service

>>97908242
Mumbai is a good idea
The horror kind of depends- maybe the horror is something only the players in the ttrpg can see and the vast majority of the population that live here don't see it: which is really good for the feeling of isolation.

Cramped, crowded, filled with thousands of temples to hundreds of Gods- I think it's a cool setting for a horror thing.

The infrastructure gets strange in a lot of places, too.

>>97908530
Seattle is actually pretty good for this. When I visited, the late hours were completely dead. Past like 10pm there were no people aside from wailing homeless. The only sounds were distant cries and distinctly City 17-esque announcements for busses.

>>97908242
Off-topic, kinda, but is that pic 70s-80s NYC? It's very atmospheric.

>>97918247
Where were you in Seattle, and when? There's a massive late night party/bar scene on the hill and around the u district.

>>97916286
>Regulation and bureaucracy have made various licenses, trainings, and insurances a necessity to operate where they weren't needed just to deliver a subpar product compared to the rigorous craftsmanship of the old who had none of it.
Regulation isn't the thing making everything so shitty and expensive, anon.

>>97909898
>My friends were robbed on the canals by a black fella with a Wakizashi, so there's a fair argument that it also has Ninjas.
Now that's actually neat. Bad, but neat.

>>97916314
>The layout makes zero sense
It's just an old argument over which surveyors' grid to use.

>>97921153
Most cities are this way, at least to some degree. Even Manhatten has some absolutely fucked bits.

>>97908314
>nuuu my polluted crime-ridden bug hives are paradise!!
Go cry about suburbs on redddit, asshole

>>97908261
Oh, Berlin. What is Berlin? Berlin, as a city, brings nothing but shame to Germany on the international stage. When comparing Berlin with other European capitals such as London, Paris, Madrid and Amsterdam, any decent human’s face must blush in humiliation. Even small countries like Austria, Belgium or Switzerland have Vienna, Brussels and Zurich: presentable cities, complete with high standards of living. Germany gets punished with Berlin, capital of losers. In all the republic, Berlin is home to the largest number of arseholes by far. Deutsche Bahn, Bundestag, Air Berlin and Axel Springer are but a few examples of all the incompetent scum being kept here. Glorious times have long since passed, the city is face down in the dirt. Berliners are lazy sods to their very core. Traits that would, in any civilised culture, pass for nothing but laziness, rudeness, incompetence, dissocial personality disorder or idiocy, are taken by the Berliner and declared a way of life. That is why the Berliner harbours intense feelings of hatred for anyone who’s better than him in any way. Especially the all-around superior Southern Germany are a thorn in his side. He envies their success, and Munich makes the top on his list of hatred. That city is – and has! – everything that Berlin wants to be and have. Berliners take no interest in the fact that it is Munich that finances their dissolute lifestyle, in fact, they secretly believe that they have earned it. So instead of freeing themselves from their envious and resentful lethargy, instead of rolling up their sleeves and improve their city, they revel in their antisocial freeloading and praise their so-called global city. Culturally, Berliners are set up rather weakly, great works lie far back in history. Moreover, mispronouncing “g” as “j” is considered a great cultural feat. Advanced students have mastered ending each and every sentence with a “wa?”.

>>97926998
The city’s culinary performance is second-rate. Here, a sausage made from glued-together, meaty odds and ends adorned with ketchup and curry powder is sold as a culinary masterpiece. Hardly any reasonable person would consider a bratwurst with ketchup a recipe, let alone the holy grail of culinary arts. Yet, in their magnanimity, the rest of the republic lets the Berliner keep his delusion, not wanting to amplify his inferiority complex. Economically, Berlin is an utter disaster, even the late GDR stood on more solid ground. The local economy is based around alternative blogs, something-something-media and, if universities are to be believed, gender studies. Disregarding his own bankruptcy, the Berliner treats himself to prestigious projects like the city palace and the airport – which, considering its inoperative nature, is likely an art installation. Moreover, the city houses all popular parties’ headquarters, who refrain from using “traitors” in their official names (Probably for marketing reasons). For the longest time, this “town’s” “mayor”, the jolly Wowibear, butchered anything he found left in a presentable state. Long story short: Berlin is Germany’s tiled coffee table. It is to Germany what Greece is to the European Union, and if it had open sewerage, it would be Germanys Romania. Berlin is a blemish, the abscess on the arse of the nation. Berlin is the uninvited party guest, who didn’t even bring any booze and wouldn’t even understand he’s not welcome if he had is teeth beaten out and got thrown down the stairs. Berlin is the Detroit of Germany and should be sold to Poland for 200 Złoty.

>>97927001
Even Bremen is less of a dead weight than Berlin. Bremen!
Their motto is literally "something better than death we'll find in any case" and stacking animals on top of each other to trap torists, and they are still less retarded than b*rliners.

No joke, germanies GDP would improve if Berlin got nuked.

>>97927431
>>97927001
>>97926998
Least frustrated bavarian

>>97908242
Pretty much every Western city is now the symbol of decay. You know why, too.

>>97909979
Purple Aki is dead mate.
He's sqeezin' muscles in hell now.

>>97926998
>>97927001
Nice pasta, if a bit undercooked.

>>97927001
>Berlin [...] should be sold to Poland for 200 Złoty.
Spierdalaj, we don't want it.

>>97912857
Being a crazy homeless drug addict is a viable lifestyle now. Our economy paradoxically has a lot of surplus wealth sloshing around even at the bottom but has very limited paths upward, so the path of least resistance for everyone is to quietly buy off the poor by tolerating and even actively subsidizing their vices. Trying to live like that before the 1970s would have quickly ended in death or getting institutionalized because society didn't have enough wealth overall to prop up an indigent caste, but it did have lots of opportunity for individuals to carve out a niche for themselves in the job market, so treating the poor harshly actually had the effect of herding them in a useful direction.

>>97928239
You're a fucking idiot.

>>97928266
If America's poor were really poor we wouldn't have to import third world peasants to do all the labor jobs. Their problem isn't poverty or atomization, it's that our society doesn't really have a useful economic niche for people who are too comfortable to do grueling blue collar work but too low IQ to do middle class office work. Even if you got them off drugs and off the streets they would still face the problem of not having anything to contribute that society values.

>>97908242
I'd probably say Brazil because of the favelas so prevalent in some areas of that country.
Just have those a lot that somehow have power generators putting on lights or not.

>>97908530
The most uneasy I felt was when I was in some smaller towns in Tunisia. Tons of abandoned or unfinished buildings, some of them lived in (I heard they basically live at the ground floor and build upper floors bit by bit when they can afford it), lots of sand and dust and trash, heavily armed police posted at the entrances to the districts with hotels, pitch black outside these districts and yet whole groups of people sit and pass time in that darkness as if they're some fucking nosferatu, meanwhile you can hear the barking of tens of dogs going batshit insane from all directions. I'm sure it was just autism-fueled paranoia, but I decided to minimize my night strolling while there. Cool country, I recommend visiting it at least once.

>>97912857
Fent and oxy, unironically.

>>97926998
>>97927001
The consequences of WW2 on the German people are very dire indeed.

>>97912167
If you're doing New Orleans skip the voodoo and vampires, it's a largely ordinary if run down city whose tourism campaigns revolve around a historical district that in reality is mostly private houses.

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Sunderland.

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>>97921163
>Manhatten
NTA but that reminds me of how there was/is a city beneath New York City, of sorts. Extensive underground buildings, subways, and abandoned infrastructure all led to separate societies forming down there. From memory, a lot of it has been permanently sealed off or demolished, but at one point there was a large amount of people down there; kinda like a very horizontal subterranean version Kowloon Walled City. Vegas has/had something similar I believe, but smaller in scale.

>>97936338
They're still recovering from World War I I think.

>>97912167
As someone who is very familiar with St. Louis, it's really not as bad as everyone makes it out to be outside of one or two parts.

The area around Forest Park like with WashUy is very safe. Similar with the area around the Botanical Gardens with its boutiques and fancy Italian Restaurants. Clayton is more urban but sort of ritzy urban. Trendy restaurants and stores.

You're probably right that Gothic is probably the best descriptor, yeah. There's a lot of Old Money Catholic Families in some of the surrounding areas like Ladue. Lot of 19th century mansion homes and neighborhoods. There are yearly Catholic festivals in the city.

Even within the city itself there's the old basilica and Union Station (now the Aquarium) was even used as a set in Escape From New York. The City Museum is fucking weird, but pretty cool too.

People focus on the crime-ridden parts of the city, for obvious reasons, but it really has a lot going for it beyond that.

Cincinnati is another city with an older feel to it.

Boston:
>Cartoonishly corrupt public and private institutions
>Grimdark lore with plenty of tragic events and paranormal activity
>Organized crime
>Various factions vying for power
>Districts with their own distinct flavor
>Rampant mental illness
>Cultural melting pot

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>>97912789
As a child, I'd been to Cologne almost every weekend because my father worked there. Whenever we walked over the Hohenzollernbrücke to the other side, I looked down at the Rhine and always imagined seeing huge shadows in the water.

>>97908242
All of them suck due to constant surveillance. Anything big would get caught instantly.

>>97908530
The word you are looking for is misanthropy

>>97936453

As a europoor New OIrleans charm sound pretty strange to me. It seems really like a normal city with a fake-y sleazy side, not really pretty historical sites and a terrible climate.
Hell, Las Vegas of all things seems more genuine in its campiness.


>>97938100

Unfortunately (?) The Mole People was almost all fake.
Cool idea for a game tough. Wanna do it with ghouls in Trail of Cthulhu.

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>>97908242
Paris
I live there, so I'm obviously biased, but I've travel a good fair bit and I still think it would be a fantastic place for an urban fantasy setting. Urban horror, a bit less, although there's plenty of uncanny or dark corners that could work perfectly for this.
Pick your poison:
>The Père Lachaise cemetery
Absolutely gigantic, looks straight out of a gothic novel, down with tombs which are falling in pieces, has plenty of celebrities and more than a few mystics buried in there and I've met with a vampire specialist who swears that one of them is buried there.
>The catacombs
Goes without saying. I've been there a few times, most of it is harmless fun, but yeah sometimes you meet with seriously freaky people there. Plenty of rumours and urban legends.
and then you can have
>Eyes Wide Shut black magic rituals in the rich areas
>African sorcery in the poor areas
>Jewish magic in the 3rd district
>Vietnamese magic in the 13th district
Honestly, even the metro could make for a great urban horror setting. There are ghost stations (some has been closed for good, some never opened, but you can see them on the way), there are freaks who love to explore the rails after dark. Tons of potential

>>97909313
Reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W96G688oJjc

>>97916401
Yeah and then there’s the smell
Terrifying

>>97939432

Obviously the Tower and the metro are some sort of belle epoque colossal georitual

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Bit of an odd one, but other people are repping their cities so I might as throw mine in:
>Houston
Of all the places in the US I have lived for any amount of time, this one definitely stands out. For one, the number of problem animals hanging around the outsides and even further into the city itself is rather high. There's the regular coyotes and black widows and mosquitos, but then there are also bullet-resistant Feral Hogs and Gators wandering out of the concrete drainage ditches when they feel like it. Add to that all the venomous snakes in and out of the water and it is not a great situation.

But that's really the dressing for the big attraction here, with the main show being the fact that things get apocalyptic every few months when flooding hits, or when there's a few snowflakes and the powergrid explodes again as a result. Some of my earliest memories are having to evacuate in the face of an incoming hurricane, or otherwise hiding in the middle of the house waiting for one to blow past. This is definitely not a slowburn secret-world kind of horror but goddamn if it's not frightening to be in a Walmart when the lights cut out and everyone starts sprinting for the last few gallons of pure water. Yes, really.

Plus, there's a massive tabletop community and the nearby Ren Faire which itself is absolutely a breeding ground for horror, and not just from the hygiene standards of some of the attendees.

Northern Territory in Australia.

>>97939731

I'm amazed that someone here managed to pick out a first world bigass territory WITHOUT honest-to-god cities.

>>97908242
Port au Prince.
The city has been essentially destroyed for over a decade at this point. Wild animals, disease epidemics, and violence run rampant throughout the city. Power, water, and other services are inconsistent and armed gangs have been fighting civil wars for control over areas of the city - the police and government are essentially helpless to do anything about this- the ones that aren’t corrupt and complicit of course.
Robberies, carjackings, murders, rapes, arson, kidnapping, etc. - all of these are common occurrences

>>97908242
>best setting for a modern urban horror game
Providence, RI.
H. P. Lovecraft was onto something.

>>97938623
Having studied in Bonn as a northern German, I went through Cologne often by train, and going over that bridge was always cool.

>>97908242
baltimore

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>>97939864
Lucky there’s a Family Guy…

>>97938542
Boston is literally one of the safest, cleanest, most gentrified and best-run cities in US rn.