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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeff Wilder" data-source="post: 1655398" data-attributes="member: 5122">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.)</blockquote>