Good City Adventures

[DayTripper]

So, anyone got any recommendations for good city adventures that I can use or convert for use in my 4e campaign? My players are heading for a big city where I plan to run a conversion of of the 1e D&D classic, The Veiled Society, and it would be nice to run some other city based adventures while they are there.

 

[Crothian]

Ring of Thieves, it is a PDF by Game Mechanics and writen by Rodney Thompson who bascially did a lot with Star Wars Saga and now works for the D&D 4e line. It is a city based adventure for the city of Liberty but should easily be used in other places. I adapted it to Sharn when I was running Eberron. It does take the PCs to many different areas of the city so can also serve as a good way to let them see the city.

The 11th Hour is another PDf adventure. It takes place in a signle inn. It is a mystery and plays out like no other adventure I've seen.

 

[ExploderWizard]

The Veiled Society was Basic D&D BTW.

I think the original Freeport Trilogy for 3E was pretty good and could be modified to fit in Specularum with a little work.

 

[darjr]

The freeport setting is system less and there is a 4e companion for it Freeport Companion (4e) - Expeditious Retreat Press | EN World PDF Store

Also there is scarport that has an adventure in it Scarrport: City of Secrets - Gun Metal Games | EN World PDF Store

 

[Wicht]

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[Dark Mistress]

I would check out Urban Adventures by 0one games. They have 6 so far and they all take place from what I understand with in a single city. I don't have them all so i don't know if they ever leave the city but I don't think they do.

 

[Jan van Leyden]

If you are going to convert anyway, you might have a look at the 1st edition Warhammer FRPG adventures "Shadows over Bögenhafen" and "Power behind the Throne."

SoB takes place in a mid-sized town where a rich merchant has become a pawn of a demon. The demon has tricked the merchant into performing a rather grisly ritual which should allow the merchant to reclaim his soul. Alas, when the ritual is successful a chaos gate is opened instead, which allows other demonic creatures access to the place. If the PCs are not successful, there'll be dire consequences for the world.

PbtT takes place in a big city (with some architectural curiosities) where a chaos cult works to bring down the whole city and a lot of powerful entities of the realm. This adventure is very heavy in the roleplaying department. If your players like to uncover a good story and deal with lots of colourful, well describes NSCs, PbtTis a hit.

 

[Varianor Abroad]

Ptolus - hands down. It's a city in a book plus adventures.

After that? God. Lots. Zobeck - as portrayed in the Gazetteer and Tales of Zobeck. (I wrote one of the eight adventures in that - so bias should be noted.) Mad God's Key is a really good starter city adventure.

 

[DayTripper]

All good suggestions, I'll check out most of these though I suspect that Ptolus will be too big as the players are stopping off in the city rather than basing the whole campaign there.

I completely forgot that Veiled Society was OD&D! Which is poor of me as I played it originally in OD&D back in the day and I have a copy of it for my conversion!! Clearly I'm too old now to even remember what versions of D&D I've played...