RPG Campaign Tour: Day 6 - Where Shall We Start?

 Day 6 of the #RPGCampaignTour Challenge and we finally finish the session zero of questions and work towards the baby steps of the campaign with "Where Shall We Start?"

Of course, we start in Riverbend. 

Fun fact: Four years and 129 sessions later, and I didn't have a picture of anything in town until I ran a couple dozen different attempts in Nightcafe to generate the picture above.  

Riverbend is a large village, a meeting place for the surrounding farmers. In this corner of Gamma World, I picture a lot of Enlightenment era tech, with a smattering of Ancient tech treasures. 

There is a business district. Oddly enough there’s no true River District as shipping commerce up and down is a rare sight on the water. The Big River is not a huge enterprise for some reason.

Riverbend is not without its problems.  There appear to be more inns and taverns than what the town should support.   Up until the last year or so there was very little in defensive measures, most relied on a poorly trained militia.   Now at least  some of the buildings within the business district are now protected by a 7 foot tall wooden palisade

There is also an entire neighborhood on the outskirts of town further away from the big river that is run by ne'er do wells, but it's more likely to find black market or random Ancient tech there than anywhere else.

The most notable secret society, of course are the Restorationists, who keep a very high profile headquarters in Aspiration Hall. This is the largest concentration of Restorationists in the region, yet despite their leader having a spot with the town elders, it's quite that the actions of the town conflict wit the vision of the group.