McDonald is just so damned good at writing love-letters to *places* that then them into characters in their own right. The first third of *Hopeland* treats London that way, bringing it to gritty life in the manner of Michael de Larrabeiti's classic #Borribles trilogy:

https://memex.craphound.com/2014/01/16/the-borribles-are-back/

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Did anyone here read The Borribles when they were young?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Borrible_Trilogy

It was an early Urban Fantasy novel and an inspiration behind the New Weird. It made a hike across run-down 1970s London sound like an epic quest through the Misty Mountains

I was wondering what ttrpg system would suit running a Borrible campaign. I think it would need some way of encouraging storytelling, & the use of proverbs to define yourself

#ttrpg #rpg #gaming #borribles #urbanFantasy #newWeird #anarchism