Any good city guide for 3e/3.5e?

[JoeBlank]

I highly recommend Streets of Silver.

Check out the reviews right here on EN World

 

[Krieg]

If you are edition neutral you can't go wrong with the 1e & 2e copies of Lankhmar, City of Adventure.

Along with Sanctuary it is one of the two greatest cities you will find in fantasy literature.

http://pages.tca.net/fewlass/LankhmarCity.html

 

[sellars]

Krieg: If you are edition neutral you can't go wrong with the 1e & 2e copies of Lankhmar, City of Adventure.


I totally agree with this one! That was also my first thought.

 

[MonsterMash]

I'd back the 1e Lankhmar as well and the Judges Guild versions of the City State of the Invicible Overlord. (Actually a 3.5 version will come from Necromancer and JG sometime)

 

[poilbrun]

I'm definitely going to have to dig my 2e box of Lankhmar, and see if it can fit in my campaign.

I'll probably shell the 9.95$ for the Bluffside set which is available at rpgnow too.

 

[Jeff Wilder]

The best fantasy city I've ever found is Carse, although it's older -- probably about 15 years old by now -- and setting-neutral. (The latter is a plus, as far as I'm concerned.) There's an iso-map of the town, and every single building is described (even if only as "vacant"), complete with NPCs with lots of adventure hooks. The index is first-rate ... if you wanna know where to find a jeweler, you look it up, and all the jewelers in town are listed. And because each neighborhood has its only alpha-prefix, someone familiar with the supplement can immediately tell roughly where each is, even without regard to the map.

Thieves' World -- an old boxed set based on the shared-world anthologies, issued by Chaosium -- was pretty damned good, too, especially for its encounter tables. (I wish I'd kept my copy, just for those.)

Thieves' Quarter: A City Quarters Sourcebook is d20 specific, and the first book and district of a modular fantasy city called "Liberty." Once completed, I imagine it will be the most detailed fantasy city released, at around 600 pages total. (Liberty and Freeport have many things in common, such as a history of piratical rule, but Thieves' Quarter is much more traditional fantasy than Freeport, and much less tongue-in-cheek in some areas.)

 

[Shadowdancer]

Shelzar: City of Sin

 

[Hand of Evil]

One of the best city books NEVER published was Windhaven, it looked great, to this day I wondered what happened.

 

[reanjr]

Hello all!

I'm trying to find good city guides for my next campaign world. I'm mainly looking for a metropolis, and would like a lot of details (ala Waterdeep boxed set for 2e, but I couldn't use it, since my players know Waterdeep quite well). I know of Freeport, but this wouldn't fit well.

Please let me know the good books you've found!

Is there a reason it has to a 3/3.5 book? A city sourcebook is probably very light on rules (maybe just some NPC stats and a new item or material or two). If you are willing to use other systems' books, you can open up alot of opportunities.

 

[Derulbaskul]

I have to echo previous posters and recommend Kingdoms of Kalamar: Geanavue and Loona. Both are full of flavour and can be highly recommended. I think that Loona may be the better of the two but both are really good and, like many things in the Kalamar range (eg: atlas, screen), set the standard for other settings to follow.

Visira: City of Sorrows by Darkfuries publishing is available as a USD10 PDF from RPGNow. I've heard good things about this.