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City Supplement - Your favorite?
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I mean should I start spelling Ptolus, Potus or something like that?Sanackranib
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Thieves World
Dog Moon
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Heh. I only own a couple of city supplements, Calimport, Raven's Bluff, Skullport, and Ptolus. Raven's Bluff was cool, written sort of in a tour guidish way. Ptolus is awesome. Skullport is interest; has some interesting places/people. Calimport is okay. Wish the maps were better detailed than simply black squares on white paper.
GrumpyOldMan
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Nobody should be without:
this - http://www.glorantha.com/products/1604.html
or this - http://www.columbiagames.com/cgi-bin/query/cfg/zoom.cfg?product_id=5611
High Fantasy, or grim and gritty, I don't need anything else.
this - http://www.glorantha.com/products/1604.html
or this - http://www.columbiagames.com/cgi-bin/query/cfg/zoom.cfg?product_id=5611
High Fantasy, or grim and gritty, I don't need anything else.
RichGreen
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Hi,
I have quite a few city books I like including Freeport (although I agree that the goofyness jars with the original trilogy), Bluffside, Sharn, Hollowfaust, City of Splendors: Waterdeep etc etc. My favourite, based on what I've seen and read so far, has to be Ptolus which has set a very high bar.
Cheers
Richard
I have quite a few city books I like including Freeport (although I agree that the goofyness jars with the original trilogy), Bluffside, Sharn, Hollowfaust, City of Splendors: Waterdeep etc etc. My favourite, based on what I've seen and read so far, has to be Ptolus which has set a very high bar.
Cheers
Richard
trancejeremy
Adventurer
City State of the Invincible Overlord is probably the best single city book, though it might not fit all settings. Probably my favorite.
Bluffside is actually probably a better city book than above, but has a lot of weird setting that that you probably will chuck out. Like dragon people and it's got a weird background (a city founded by Archaelogists?)
Freeport, besides the jokes, is actually a little scant on the city part. A lot of the book is actually extra rules and such. You really need Denizens of Freeport to flesh it out (though you can get that book pretty cheaply).
Bard's Gate is pretty good. But like Freeport in having a lot more extras when it needed more fleshing out (there's like 16 sections of the city, or something like that, but some only get 3-4 pages). But OTOH, it's extras are more useful, being 2 adventures and the Gods of the Necromancer Games setting.
Hollowfaust is pretty good, but somewhat Scarred Lands specific. Not too much. Small-ish book though. Same with their Sin City book (Shelzar). Both worth picking up cheap, though.
Though they are adventures, Lost City of Barakus & Grey Citadel do a pretty decent job of describing cities.
I like 7 Cities a lot, but the smaller towns are the more interesting ones, not the cities.
Shadizar for Conan is probably the worst I've ever seen. Glad I didn't buy it (traded for it).
Bluffside is actually probably a better city book than above, but has a lot of weird setting that that you probably will chuck out. Like dragon people and it's got a weird background (a city founded by Archaelogists?)
Freeport, besides the jokes, is actually a little scant on the city part. A lot of the book is actually extra rules and such. You really need Denizens of Freeport to flesh it out (though you can get that book pretty cheaply).
Bard's Gate is pretty good. But like Freeport in having a lot more extras when it needed more fleshing out (there's like 16 sections of the city, or something like that, but some only get 3-4 pages). But OTOH, it's extras are more useful, being 2 adventures and the Gods of the Necromancer Games setting.
Hollowfaust is pretty good, but somewhat Scarred Lands specific. Not too much. Small-ish book though. Same with their Sin City book (Shelzar). Both worth picking up cheap, though.
Though they are adventures, Lost City of Barakus & Grey Citadel do a pretty decent job of describing cities.
I like 7 Cities a lot, but the smaller towns are the more interesting ones, not the cities.
Shadizar for Conan is probably the worst I've ever seen. Glad I didn't buy it (traded for it).
frankthedm
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Mordheim - City of the Damned.
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