Dresden Files Notes

San Francisco Locations

Below are listed some locations in San Francisco to check out for flavor in a SF-based Dresden Files Game.

• Alcatraz
  • Face: Jolene Babyak, author of Eyewitness on Alcatraz, Life on The Rock as told by the Guards, Families & Prisoners
  • Her aspects: "Grew up on the Rock" and "Last prisoner of Alcatraz"
• Trinity Episcopal Church
• Cemeteries (There's only three within San Francisco city limits)
  • the historic graveyard next to Mission Dolores.
  • Odd Fellows Cemetery/Columbarium
  • San Francisco National Cemetery
• Sutro Bath Ruins
• Queen Anne Hotel
• Neighborhoods
  • sfguide
  • Wikipedia
• Haight/Ashbury
• Barbary Coast
• Chinatown
• City Lights Bookstore
• AT&T Park, Candlestick Park
• Old US Mint
• Designated Landmarks and National Register listing
• Bohemian Club
• SFSU, Stats, Greek Life
• Misdirections Magic Shop
• Fields Book Shop

San Francisco Personalities

• Emperor Norton
• Gavin Newsom (Current Mayor)
• Beach Blanket Babylon
• Ohlone Indians
• Al Capone, George "Machine Gun" Kelly, and Robert Franklin Stroud, The Birdman of Alcatraz
• Jack London
• Zodiac Killer
• wikipedia list of SF people
• Frank Chu (Crazy-ass protester dude)
• Retired Bishop Ignatius C. Wang (Father WANG!)
• The Homeless (need a face, 5th and Brannen shelter?)

Other ideas

• Talamasca
• Precinct 13 (SFPD)
• San Francisco Gangs
• San Francisco FBI
• Bay Bridge Troll
• Weasel Spew, the occult punk rock band.

Additional Resources

• Wikidot San Francisco - wiki of someone's city creation for dresden files game
• RPG.net posting - brainstorming thread of SF locations/faces
• San Francisco: Shaking the Foundations - This is an online play-by-post game; lots of their city creation info is already up.
• San Francisco by Night (WOD sourcebook)
• Secrets of San Francisco (1920's Cthulu Sourcebook)
• Immortal Eyes: The Toybox (WOD Fae Sourcebook)
• Curse of the Jade Monkey (Thrilling Tales pulp adventure)
• Wikipedia "San Francisco"
• Dresden Files (books & stories) Wiki