Big City Books?

mattcolville

Adventurer

• Jul 10, 2006

• #1

I have City-State of the Invincible Overloard and Bard's Gate and could really use a few more. Also, smaller cities and towns would be great. What are the best resources for these things?

 

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Teflon Billy

Explorer

• Jul 10, 2006

• #2

I think World's Largest City has to be getting close to release now....from the folks who brought you World's Largest Dungeon.

 

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Dav

First Post

• Jul 10, 2006

• #3

Don't forget Ptolus by Malhavoc Press!

 

Glyfair

Explorer

• Jul 10, 2006

• #4

mattcolville said:

I have City-State of the Invincible Overloard and Bard's Gate and could really use a few more. Also, smaller cities and towns would be great. What are the best resources for these things?

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As long as you only want maps, and not details, the Judges Guild "Village Book" series can't be beat (along with their Castle Book & Island Book series).

If you want detail, there are quite a number coming out with Ptolus towards the top of the heap. Pavis/Big Rubble, Greyhawk and Waterdeep are excellent sources as well.

 

Wik

First Post

• Jul 10, 2006

• #5

You also might wanna check out Races of Destiny, to throw a wotc plug in there. It has a pretty nifty resource for city generation that's come in handy for me a few times. DMG 2 has a bit of city-making goodness, as well.

 

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trancejeremy

Adventurer

• Jul 10, 2006

• #6

7 Cities from Atlas was pretty nice. Had a city of each size. But to fit it on one reasonable small book, they sort of made it scoping. Like the Town would have all the shops and locations of the Hamlet and Village, and the Small City would have most the locations of the Town, Hamelt and Village and so on.


It's not very standard D&D-ish, but Bluffside is also a pretty good city. I think Hal is selling them cheap over in the marketplace section here.

 

Turjan

Explorer

• Jul 10, 2006

• #7

There's also good old Waterdeep in a 3.5 version, though it's not overly detailed, or in the older 2E version. Then there is the free download of the City of Ravens Bluff. There are also other, smaller 2E cities described in some free downloads at the WotC site.

There's also the City of Greyhawk. It's worth looking around that site .

 

Hussar

Legend

• Jul 10, 2006

• #8

Since the Sage seems to be AWOL at the moment, there's always Scarred Lands City of Mithril, Hollowfaust and Shelzar City of Sin.

IIRC, Hollowfaust is currently free over at DriveThru RPG.

IMO, one of the best city resources is Mystic Eye Games Urban Blight series. 20 locations that you can toss into most campaigns. Bloody fantastic stuff. I got a huge amount of use from it.

 

catsclaw227

First Post

• Jul 10, 2006

• #9

Troll Lord games has a Cities and Settlements book that has 19 different living communities, from the size of a Thorp of 29 people to a Small town of 1800.

 

Treebore

First Post

• Jul 10, 2006

• #10

My best source? Dungeon magazine.