Jürgen Hubert

Hit this page until you have found inspiration.

I realize that I should have judged this contest much, much earlier. Nevertheless...

The winner for this contest is jdrakeh with his entry for Kitezh - a great bit of obscure mythology that makes for great gaming!

His entry is also viewable here at the Arcana Wiki - go there if you have any good ideas to add!

The winner will get his $25 gift certificate at the EN Store shortly.

Among other things, I am trying to develop descriptions of "generic locations" for Urbis - locations which can be found in more than one city-state, as well as descriptions of their structure and purpose.

My current list can be found here. So, what kind of locations am I missing from this list? And what is missing from the descriptions of locations that already have their own entries?

I'm slowly making progress, though too slowly for my tastes. Regardless, new sections have been ported over to the Urbis Wiki:

* Desert of Thunder - a desert realm whose city-dwelling population is controlled by blue dragon overlords.
* Eternal Storm - devastated by still-prevalent elemental forces, this region attracts brave and foolhardy prospectors in search of fortunes.
* Flannish Cities - the center of modern urban civilization, this young region is currently setting the standards for prosperity and development.

The last one is the single most detailed region - not only does it include the "example city" of Dartmouth, but also Praxus - a huge city which is almost entirely a fan creation (i.e. not written by me).

I hope more people will join tanniynim in writing new material for Urbis.

For the last year, the setting I have been developing - Urbis - A World of Cities has been hosted on Eruvian.Com. But I have finally been convinced that I need to move it to a new home, since Eruvian.Com seems dead for all intents and purposes. Sure, the material is still available online - but there is next to no activity. And if I get no feedback, staying on this site is pointless for me.

Thus, I'm currently doing what I'm always doing under these circumstances - I'm creating a Wiki. You can find the Urbis Wiki here. I'm slowly moving all the material over. So far, I have finished the following sections:

• Alliance of the Pantheon
• Avareen
• Places of Legend
• Races
• Rothea
• Solar System

I will post updates whenever I have transferred new material. Furthermore, I have also written some new material, most prominently my new take on devils and their home plane of Sheol, which I am rather proud of if you don't mind me saying it.

Furthermore, many pages now have a "Designer's Notes" section where I explain what I had in mind when I wrote a specific entry. Sometimes they also contain significant "spoilers" or setting secrets, such as the Races entry which explains my idea for the origin of the various player character races.

Finally, the wiki setup also allows others to contribute their own material to Urbis. The following steps are needed:

1. Registering at Wikidot.Com.
2. Registering at the Urbis Wiki - which unfortunately requires agreeing to a legal disclaimer, which I need to do since I do plan to publish Urbis commercially, and I really don't want to deal with lawsuits over this setting.
3. Entering new additions to the Wiki. This works pretty similar to other standard wikis, with one significant, Urbis Wiki-limited exception:

All "canon" material in the Urbis Wiki - material either written by me or approved by me - is written in blue. All "non-canon" material - material not yet approved by me - is written in green. Any material you submit to the Urbis Wiki is automatically considered "non-canon" until I approve it.

Thus, you must start any new additions to the Wiki with the following tag:

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and end them with:

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This will ensure that they are displayed in green, until I get the time to review them and change their status.