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I have a first draft of a calendar and festivals done. I decided to use the ancient Egyptian calendar as it's something different and...

I work with or work for, many of the people who created some of these games, and Vampire is a great example. Design language has...

By the way, back on the subject of railroading, I was just at my local bookstore looking at the Vecna adventure path by WotC. In the...

Let's start with a basic premise: the player says, "Can I tell if the NPC is lying?" and the GM says, "Let me have a Wisdom(Insight)...

This is the way I look at it. 5e has a skill that can be used to read someone, and ideally identify if they're telling the truth. If...

To me, this kind of situation is more a question of why does it matter so much that the PC shouldn’t know the NPC is lying? I mean, if...

I like it. Pretty much the Stonetop approach to Gear.

I think backgrounds are a much better design space to connect PCs to the urban environment. It doesn't take much, just a few connections...

I wasn’t going to mention the “S” word… The character quotes [and additional commentary -Ed.] are fantastically flavourful! I know it’s...

Uncaged: Faces of Sigil is a AD&D2e book that really helps flesh out the city of Sigil for the Planescape setting. It’s a set of many...

Not sure if this counts as city or if its too small (it counts itself town) but Hammerfast is telative short (36 pages) and quite cool...

My likes and dislikes are all about how gameable that material is. You need some exposition for context but past a certain point its...

My Ashalom project resembles Duskvol in a lot of ways. The history and whatnot have been kept quite short and the detail is in the...

Blades in the Dark’s Doskvol is my top tier example of usable city. I think it’s the way it organizes districts and then gives each a...

I'm in the middle of writing a city supplement for Shadowdark and it has occurred to me that there are a lot less in the way of design...