I had a longer comment here but Wikidot ate it :(
There are a lot of little pieces here but none of them unify into a single whole. It comes across as shallow. Instead of being threads dangling from a larger whole it’s a pile of yarn that’s not yet been knitted together.
The pocket dimension for anomalous outcasts territory was already well-covered by Backdoor Soho and 3Ports. While that might not be a fair comparison, even UnderVegas which is another relatively new concept has far more character than this, at least as far as this hub presents.
Atmosphere seems like an amalgamation of Herman Fuller and Southern Fifthists. The characters as described are stock without anything that would make me interested in writing them. I particularly disliked the opening note in the how-to section stating how they want to be friends with everyone. Isn’t this supposed to be a last stop for outcasts?
In fact, is this a group, a location, or somewhere in between? If it’s a city are the locations described its entirety or just what’s been explored so far? All of the descriptions that might really let us get an idea of La Rue Macabre as a place are too brief to be effective. Wasn’t really able to get a good sense of place or of the people.
Perhaps when this group has come into their own more, this hub will have more for me to appreciate. As it stands I can’t say I’m a fan. Perhaps the individual entries will win me over, or at least overcome my initial bias I’ll be going in with after discovering them through this hub.
