Gilladian
Adventurer
I may need a whole city - a lost, ruined, mostly abandoned city, for my PCs to explore. Obviously, I'm not going to want to design every building or encounter in detail myself, so I'll be gathering resources, creating random tables, etc...
What resources would you draw on?
Background for anyone who cares... the city was the capitol of a continent-spanning empire before it was sacked; then a horrible devastating ritual was cast that basically turned the city and a couple hundred mile zone around it into a nuclear wasteland. 400 years later, the stark remains of the once-great city are surrounded by a wilderness of monsters and toxic wasteland. The fringes are recovering, but just about any bad thing I want can live here... including haunts and such.
But i need random tables, interesting buildings that might have survived the "blast" - I'm not sure the Devastation was terribly destructive to the physical buildings, though it may have caused earth tremors, etc... so much as it just killed and poisoned everything - and anything else that might be "going on" in the ruins. Adventurers are pretty rare here, as the region is moderately isolated, but rich pickings.
Anyway, I'm looking for suggestions of game resources to loot, sites to check out, and general ideas. Hopefully I have a few months to do some work before my PCs get here... if they ever do.
What resources would you draw on?
Background for anyone who cares... the city was the capitol of a continent-spanning empire before it was sacked; then a horrible devastating ritual was cast that basically turned the city and a couple hundred mile zone around it into a nuclear wasteland. 400 years later, the stark remains of the once-great city are surrounded by a wilderness of monsters and toxic wasteland. The fringes are recovering, but just about any bad thing I want can live here... including haunts and such.
But i need random tables, interesting buildings that might have survived the "blast" - I'm not sure the Devastation was terribly destructive to the physical buildings, though it may have caused earth tremors, etc... so much as it just killed and poisoned everything - and anything else that might be "going on" in the ruins. Adventurers are pretty rare here, as the region is moderately isolated, but rich pickings.
Anyway, I'm looking for suggestions of game resources to loot, sites to check out, and general ideas. Hopefully I have a few months to do some work before my PCs get here... if they ever do.