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babyfoxcollectionthings · 8 months

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#travel #town #small towns #townscape #travel videos

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spikyseasponge · 2 months

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Elk, California

#california #elk #coastal #small towns #USA #sunset #ocean #summer #beach #nature #cliffs

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ecoamerica · 21 days

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Watch the American Climate Leadership Awards 2024 now: https://youtu.be/bWiW4Rp8vF0?feature=shared

The American Climate Leadership Awards 2024 broadcast recording is now available on ecoAmerica's YouTube channel for viewers to be inspired by active climate leaders. Watch to find out which finalist received the $50,000 grand prize! Hosted by Vanessa Hauc and featuring Bill McKibben and Katharine Hayhoe!

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pratchettquotes · 3 months

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It was said to be a wonder of the world, except that very few people around here ever wondered much about anything and were barely aware of the world.

Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment

#polly perks #monstrous regiment #discworld #terry pratchett #small towns #small town life #wonder #curiosity #small world #awareness #perspective #local news #tourist attraction #the troll bridge #a wonder of the world

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theresattrpgforthat · 2 months

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Is there a modern Rural or Small Town TTPRG? Without agriculture as a central theme? Maybe something focused on community or the idea of rural? 😳

Theme: Small Town Games

Hello friend, I think I have a few games that might work out for you. Some are collaborative, some are petty, and some are in small towns but the focus in on something a little different.

Turn, by Beau Jágr Sheldon. @beaujagr

Turn is a slice-of-life, rural supernatural tabletop roleplaying game for three to six people. Players are shape-shifters in a small, rural town--able to turn into animals like raccoons, cougars, and bears. They must balance their human lives and habits with their beast lives and instincts, while pursuing acceptance and community with other shifters - and with the mundane humans and beasts that populate the town.

Players and the Town Manager build their town together using a unique town building system, and create the characters who populate it and the wilderness around it. Turn uses the Script Change toolbox to support player comfort and consent, and explores themes of identity, community, self care, and otherness.

Turn is a rural game that adds a supernatural twist in that your characters are all shapeshifters. The small town is meant to be a setting that will likely challenge your characters and provide emotional growth. The game itself is written very carefully, with essays sprinkled throughout to help you navigate difficult topics that may arise within the game.

Unincorporated, by Ethan Harvey.

An optimistic person might call this place a town. It has a name, a gas station, a few stores. It just doesn’t have many people. Which makes these other losers still hanging around here important. The same few people are your co-workers, your neighbours, your dating prospects, the folks you run into everywhere.

"Friends" might be a stretch, but they know you. Or at least they know who you used to be. They know about all the stupid things you’ve done, and they won’t let you forget it. Nobody gets a clean slate here. But maybe you can shake off your reputation and become something new.

Unincorporated is a collaborative, mostly-GMless story game for 3-5 players who take on the roles of ordinary people caught up in petty rivalries, long-held grudges, intense frenemyships, and hopeless love affairs, all while trying to shake off the weight of expectations.

If what you really want is small-town drama, this might be the game for you. The basic rules are inspired by Powered by the Apocalypse games, and the settings are flexible - you can use a pre-suggested playlet, or build a setting of your own. This means that the game can also be used alongside another ttrpg, if you want to experience the intricate lives of the town your characters live in alongside their larger-than-life adventures.

The Woman of Sayora Village, by luciellaes.

Your country has been at war for several months now, closing on a year. Your village feels empty. Anyone capable of fighting has long since been taken far from home, leaving more than enough work for those left behind. For some, that work is a welcome distraction from the pain and fear of separation, while for others the added burden is overwhelming enough of itself.

Your village feels different. Most of the departing soldiers were men, and those who remain are mostly women, the young and the elderly. Until it happened, you had never quite grasped what a difference this would make. Toxic behaviours that were once tolerated or even celebrated are now shunned and punished. Feminine rituals and celebrations that had begun to fade into obscurity have seen a startling renaissance. Formerly taboo subjects can be discussed openly in the fields and on the streets.

Perhaps when the war ends, things will return to the way they were. Perhaps not. In the meantime, there remains much work to be done.

This is a very specific setting for a small-town game, namely in that it is about a town during a difficult time, and without almost half of its population. This game is also highly interpretive, because it uses a deck of tarot cards, which you will have to interpret as you draw them. The game is also GM-less, which means that everyone at the table will fill similar roles.

I Went To Bourbon, Indiana Once, by Beth and Angel Make Games.

I Went to Bourbon, Indiana Once is a hack of I Went to Seattle Once by Lucky Newt Games which is itself a hack of I Went to Japan Once by James Lennox-Gordon. As per the original, you are friends, family, or perhaps random strangers bored in line at a gas station who all suddenly realize you've been to Bourbon, Indiana, a small little town without much to do. Did you visit either (or both!) of the town's dollar stores?Check out the town gazebo, a local hangout spot? Or perhaps you hit up the Redbox kiosk and relaxed for the night.

Players roll dice and share experiences blending the results of two separate tables, but once too many players tell the same stories over again (as we Midwesterners are wont to do), everyone goes their own way and the reminiscence concludes.

As a game about the traveler's experience of a small town, rather than a resident’s, I went to Bourbon, Indiana Once may provide a unique take on the theme of small-town games. The game includes a number of prompts to provide you with events that happened during your stay, and that’s about it. I think that would make this game pretty hack-able for any small town that you can dream of - and it might also make this a great mini-game to put inside a larger campaign.

Our Town, by Miles Kirk.

Our Town is a theatrical 1 page tabletop roleplaying game with no dice, no masters.

Players take on the roles of citizens in a small town and play through snapshots of their lives from adolescence, to adulthood, to one of their deaths.The game can be played with 3+ players and can take 2-4 hours depending on the size of the group. It provides the opportunity to explore many different subjects surrounding everyday life; safety tools are strongly encouraged during play.

The creation of the town you live in is essential to the play experience of this game. You’ll come up with some basic details about the layout and buildings of the town, but you’ll also populate it, creating relationships between the residents and following them through a day in their life. Then the game moves out to observe the town in the long-term, asking what happens over the course of 10 years, as well as what happens when prominent characters die. If you want a game that looks at the bigger picture rather than a play-by-play, this might be the game for you.

Little Island Gift Shops, by astoryinpieces.

In this cooperative roll-and-write dice game, 2-4 players are members of the Little Island community, a place that puts helping your neighbors at the front. Each day, they'll decide how much time to spend diving for ocean goods to sell in their individual gift shops on the island. Unused goods are shared with neighbors, or can even be returned to the ocean as decorated gifts in order to receive its blessing. However, Little Island is only bountiful and strong when everyone uplifts each other! So organize your shop carefully, be respectful of your ocean home, and never be afraid to help your neighbour~

This game feels a little bit like a board-game, asking players to weigh decisions of different numbers of dice rolled, as well as strategize to determine which shop owner gets which trinket. The end of the game also asks the players to tally their scores, with the lowest player’s score setting the score for the whole group. As a result, this game should encourage everyone to work collaboratively, in such a way that the community succeeds as a whole.

Games I’ve Recommended in the Past

An Altogether Different River, by ehronlime.

What the Water Gave Us, by Jordanna George.

What’s So Off About This Small Town?, by Ostrichmonkey Games.

#tabletop games #indie ttrpgs #game recommendations #dnd #asks #indie ttrpg #small towns

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heartshapedcaskett · 1 year

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Laurinburg, North Carolina

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dailystreetsnapshots · 9 months

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Kiruna, Sweden

#sweden #kiruna #snow #peaceful #colorful #nordic countries #scandinavia #travel #photography #small towns #street #streets #dailystreetsnapshots

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futurebird · 9 months

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Newbern, Alabama is a small town. At it's heyday in the 1880s the population was 562. Today just about 150 people live there, with the population falling by 20% per decade for the past two decades.

It's a tiny town but there are residents who care about its future. One is Patrick Braxton, who started to question how the town was being run when working as a volunteer firefighter and during the early days of COVID.

The official leadership seemed unresponsive and even hostile. Newbern is majority black, but like many small towns in the Black Belt the town leadership is all white. Newbern has historically not had elections for Mayor--

Some residents from First Baptist Church of Newbern are fed up. Braxton among them. The small funds the Mayor controls are not spent with transparency. COVID supplies were squandered. When Patrick Braxton put up signs encouraging people to get vaccinated the signs were thrown in the burn heap.

So Braxton decided to run for mayor.

There is a process to have mayoral elections, Patrick Braxton found the paperwork despite obstruction from the city council. The existing mayor Haywood “Woody” Stokes III ignored him and didn't bother to run so Braxton won by default managing to get recognized by the county. Then, shortly after, the white town council met secretly and reappointed (??) Haywood “Woody” Stokes III as Mayor. It's an old typical situation. Here's the best article I found:

One other thing:

This kind of annoying headache inducing super local nit picky local politics is *the most important kind of political battle right now*

Power is built from these tiny councils up-- and the structures that keep all manner of "outsiders" from participating, or even knowing what they are doing need to be destroyed -- one little town at a time. Get the school board too.

If you live in a small town and don't know who the mayor is or what he does.

Maybe YOU should be the mayor.

One more note: The man's name is Haywood “Woody” Stokes III Haywood “Woody” Stokes III! I mean...

#racism #black belt #AL #us politics #small town america #small towns #small town #black tumblr #the south #down south #Haywood “Woody” Stokes III #Patrick Braxton

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scatterghosts · 2 years

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Andrew Eldritch is Moving Back to Leeds by The Mountain Goats // Ocean Limited and Hound in Field by Alex Colville

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samhorine · 6 months

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i wish i could remember the name of this town - somewhere north of tokyo - February 2020

update: i looked up the name in my phone - it's yunishigawa

#sam horine #japan #travel #small towns #onsen #winter #canon #digital #snow #winter aesthetic #yunishigawa #yunishi #visit japan

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chaoticdesertdweller · 1 month

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Meadows of Dan, Virginia 3/17/24

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#photography #life #original photographers #virginia #on the road #signs #road trip #rural america #rural appalachia #small town aesthetic #small town life #mental health #Meadows of Dan #small towns #in the country #blue ridge mountains

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thingsifoundongeoguessr · 6 months

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CORRECTIONVILLE

#iowa #correctionville #united states #of course that's in fucking iowa #small town america #small towns #geoguessr #road sign #things i found on geoguessr

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babyfoxcollectionthings · 8 months

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#travel #travel videos #town #small towns #townscape

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solarpunkbee · 3 months

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lord give me the strength not to pick a fight on a year old comment thread on facebook. I HOPE this person has changed their mind on things and moved on but the temptation.

I was looking up if the library being built in my hometown had any information about it yet. And so I was looking up on facebook so I could find the links my hometown 'news' page shares (not an actual news station page, just one run by the community to help support the community. Y'know?).

Well in between that time I had joined a group dedicated to the history of my town because it's old and got a lot of things going on with it and we all want to preserve it for good and bad. Well I saw that someone shared a picture of the original article announcing the library last year and went 'oh neat' cause I could look up the issue number and stuff and find it on the newspaper's website. Well I looked into the comments. And it boils down to one dude going off about how it's a waste of tax payer dollars and how dare we build a library in that po dunk town when there's a library in [next city over] even tho it is on the OTHER END of that city and it's a far drive and sometimes people can't drive 20 minutes (kids, elderly, busy moms, anyone that just doesn't want to drive). The rural town over has a library and it's doing well.. we need to stop relying on Bigger Cities. Meanwhile I'm up here in the [city] metro area and there is a library within 15 minutes of me in every direction. I am smack dab in a library pentagram. I could summon bookthulu.

And no matter the proper reasons people gave, being polite and all, this dude was not having it

It's not even tax money going to the library. Some of the wealthier families of the town donated to the building (land rights in a coal mining area, people who founded the town, etc) so like.. stfu.

but if y'all listen to me talk long enough you know I'm like.. big on trying to prevent small town blight and this is a way to do it Especially cause the city next to us literally has like 6x the population of my hometown they don't need the help.

#personal #vent #rant #libraries #library #i want to pick fiiights but i won't cause that's not adult of me #i just wanted to learn more like when it'll be built #because i'm moving home this year #small town #small towns #small town blight

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pratchettquotes · 1 year

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That was the problem with witchcraft: It was as if everybody needed the witches but hated the fact that they did, and somehow the hatred of the fact could become the hatred of the person. People then started thinking: Who are you to have these skills? Who are you to know these things? Who are you to think you're better than us? But Tiffany didn't think she was better than them. She was better than them at witchcraft, that was true; but she couldn't knit a sock, she didn't know how to shoe a horse, and while she was pretty good at making cheese, she had to have three tries to bake a loaf that you could actually bite into with your teeth. Everybody was good at something. The only wicked thing was not finding out what it was in time.

Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight

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neat-deadandlive-things · 2 years

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Now I'm from a small town but I'm in a town that makes my hometown feel like a major city. It has two streets: 1st street and main street. Neither are paved.

This is Main street.

#Im here learning how to traditionally brain tan hides which is an amazing expirence #small towns #rural towns #travel #dirt road

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vanillacoladoll · 8 months

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☆Not What I Want At All☆

#vintage #vintage aesthetic #retro #retro aesthetic #cherry aesthetic #cherries #vintage americana #red aesthetic #born to die aesthetic #born to die summer #born to die #lana del ray aesthetic #small towns #small town america

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