Those are not things I associate with the American Midwest. I would like a world that reflect the envirnment of Prairie States of the upper Midwest states.
As a midwestern I am not sure what you mean? I have lived in it my whole life and I can assure you that outside of the obvious prairie land and limestone, we have the weirdest urban legends that sound like it came from behind a gas station (which, they most liking did lol). What do u associate with the midwest?
I associate the American Midwest currently with small family farms, oil rigs, wild game hunting, and Native American Reservations. I also associate it with the frontier, when brave people left everything and attempted to settle the area. I live near areas where Laura Ingalls Wilder would have traveled and lived. The "urban legend" crap is not something I have not heard from anyone. Especially since Hollywood made a terrible movie that was actually making fun of people with Scandinavian accents and purpentuating bad sterotypes about a fake event was made about the city I live in. BTW, that event never actually happened it was a fake made up murder story. The closest we got to what I associate with the Midwest is Cottage Living, but instead it needed flatter terrain and long very cold winters and the ability to hunt the wild animals.
I DO get the hunting thing WHICH I think that in itself would be a really fun mechanic. Also, sorry, as a midwesterner I have never heard of that movie or urban legend at all. We just must've grown up with different cultures/sides of the midwest. I grew up around urban legends/ghost stories, trailer parks, camping and hunting, and where the plains meet the limestone with the main "downtown" area with those old brick shops from like, the 1900s 😅 speaking of which I think food trucks would be a fun addon too. Especially like that one that I see everywhere now and again at cons in Arkansas (mainly) with brick oven pizza 🤤
