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When I design cities for my campaigns I like to include a design "flaw", a major historical event, a quirk, and the current talk of the...

And that's fair enough. Again, those cities have reasons for being built there. ((Note, the Undermountain dungeon does not predate...

No, and I get that. But, at some point, it does have to pass the plausibility sniff test. I mean, sure, being a deep water port is...

Yes, and aqueducts are a thing, too. Adding to what you just said one really big issue that people are overlooking with the "but it's...

I don't know FR very well. Is there scope to imagine that, in FR, a deep water port means navigable approaches and docking consistently...

This is fantastic!

The Nina replica has sailed up to Montgomery Alabama with a little bit of motor assistance. But it could fit inside the footprint of a...

That's true, though I think it's important to remember that having a true to life simulation of a real world is probably overkill for...

All modern cities that didn't exist a hundred(ish) years ago and would still not exist if it wasn't for trains. Sure, if you D&D world...

I've always wanted to run a campaign in which, over time, the characters' small home town grows into a massive sprawling city. The...

Good points! One big reason is that water transport is cheaper than land transport and was vastly cheaper before the railroad...

Vancouver, San Francisco, and Los Angeles seem to be doing OK and their situation is similar. That, however, is a much bigger issue...

The first and most important thing a city (or any settlement, for that matter) needs is a reliable source of fresh water, usually a river.

And thus LOTS of opportunities for bizarro dungeons that you can get at from the sewers! Things can get really strange the further down...

"The main thing a city is built on is other cities." I first read that in a Pratchett novel but it didn't really click for me until i...