D&D General Cities - gazeteers, adventures, etc. Please share your resources

[Eyes of Nine]

Inspired by another thread, I just had a thought about a "city" campaign, that takes place in a bunch of cities. The party start as a bunch of Rat Catchers - yes, just like a Warhammer Fantasy campaign; but are quickly noticed by the "Custodians Guild" for their skills. The Custodians Guild of course cleans/sweeps up more than just floors and the like. I could see the party making choices that will take them more down the path of cleaning up after crimes; or trying to clean things up before the bad stuff even happens, depending. Maybe even they get some sort of "rep" and maybe even "regular" clients who request their services. Eventually a throughline will become apparent, and I'll lean into that and send them somewhere for a big showdown.

Anyway, any resources people can point to for city adventures? Either in the published stuff; or across the DMs Guild and beyond? Doesn't have to be D&D even - Pathfinder, OSR, system-less, I'm open to it all. Also open to games that have good rules for running city adventures (he looks at his not-yet-read copy of Cities Without Number on his shelf). Just needs to be available in at least .pdf form now.

 

[LordEntrails]

Ones I have used and recomend:

Waterdeep Primer - Dungeon Masters Guild | Dungeon Masters Guild

Waterdeep Primer - The Waterdeep Primer is a Dungeon Master's go to document to learn about or refresh their knowledge of the current state

www.dmsguild.com

Waterdeep: City Encounters - Dungeon Masters Guild | Dungeon Masters Guild

Waterdeep: City Encounters - BRING THE CITY OF SPLENDORS TO LIFE IN THIS COMPANION SUPPLEMENT FOR WATERDEEP: DRAGON HEIST™! Presenting over ONE-HUN

www.dmsguild.com

Nobles of Waterdeep Spreadsheet - Dungeon Masters Guild | Dungeon Masters Guild

Nobles of Waterdeep Spreadsheet - This is a conversion of the web enhancement for 3E Waterdeep into a sortable spreadsheet. The one addition I made is to

www.dmsguild.com

City of Brass

Upon his Brazen Throne, the Sultan awaits! The City of Brass, legendary capital of the efreeti empire and jewel of the genie nations sits upon a multi-dimensional vortex at the edge of the Elemental Plane of Fire. From here the Sultan sends his mighty armies across the cosmos, bringing fire and...

www.froggodgames.com

 

[Stormonu]

DriveThruRPG

www.drivethrurpg.com

FR8 - Cities of Mystery
Don't let the FR title drive you away; it's a pretty generic take on generating and running city-based games in just about any world and game edition. You can also get it as a Print-On-Demand book. The original had a fold out poster battlemat with fold-up cities; if you get the PDF you can print out your own on cardstock and put them together (I wouldn't suggest cutting up the POD version...).

Spectacular Settlements Hardcover

An Engine of Inspiration Spectacular Settlements will help you create all manner of places to populate the worlds in which you play, be they existing settings, or your very own. Inside, you’ll find easy-to-use settlement builder chapters, interesting NPCs, and a wide variety of other useful...

nordgamesllc.com

I got this book for my wife, she's used it for generating settlements, and it also has a chapter on encounters, rumors and other useful information for urban-based adventuring.

Medieval Fantasy City Generator by watabou

Not a game

watabou.itch.io

Best free Random city generator I've run across - quite powerful, quick and you can fill in a "key" defining what certain buildings are.

 

[DragonLancer]

Bard's Gate by Frog God Games.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I rather like Ank’Harel, as detailed in Call of the Netherdeep.

 

[Shiroiken]

The 4E/D&D Next adventure Murder in Baldur's Gate has an excellent city guide as part of it.

 

[Ath'kethin]

You could always use Campaign Guide: Zakhara - Adventures in the Land of Fate. It includes a gazetteer section on the city of Huzuz, which is loosely based on Baghdad. The gazetteer breaks the city into districts, with maps and a table of random encounters for each one. It also includes an introductory adventure called - wait for it - "The Rat Catchers."

Campaign Guide: Zakhara - Adventures in the Land of Fate (Al-Qadim and Forgotten Realms Sourcebook) - Dungeon Masters Guild | Dungeon Masters Guild

You could also try Midnight in the City of Brass; it's an adventure set in the City of Brass on the Plane of Fire. It also includes a gazetteer section for the titular City, again with random encounters for each district.

Midnight in the City of Brass (Al-Qadim and Forgotten Realms "Digital Sourcebox") - Dungeon Masters Guild | Dungeon Masters Guild

Full disclosure: I wrote both of these.

 

[Reynard]

I am going to include The City of Arches from @SlyFlourish in my homebrew sandbox.

 

[SlyFlourish]

I am going to include The City of Arches from @SlyFlourish in my homebrew sandbox.

Yay!!!