City Ruins

[Pell-Mell]

Another vote for Dwellers of the Forbidden City. Not only is a great adventure and setting, it conveniently features a wizard and his abode. It is also available electronically.

 

[Wraith Form]

Does anybody know of an adventure or supplement that details a ruined city? My players are making noises that they want to finish off a particularly irritating wizardly thorn in their side and he's known to be in the ruins of a city.

Ideally, there would be a map of a temperate city that was devistated by a near-miss meteor strike. But I can modify practically anything. What I can't do on the fly well is sketch out the ruined buildings and streets.

Oh, an online product may be best for rapidity of access. Any and all suggestions will be appreciated, however.

Level of party?

 

[S'mon]

Lost City of Gaxmoor has a very nice ruined city map, some of the encounters might be usable, also.

 

[Mercule]

Level of party?

For mine (yup, I'm thread-squatting), the part will be between 12th and 15th level, starting out. If something is close, I can either tweak the adventure or throw a side-trip in.

The city in question is a hobgoblin city (my hobgoblins are very similar to those in Eberron) in a desert. The city was razed during a war 400 years ago. This was their capital and the whole empire was crushed, so it's got to be a huge map, if possible. I can tweak a lot of details, but I figured the closer recommendation, the better.

 

[Baron Opal]

Level of party?

For 8 characters of 8th level.

 

[Glyfair]

Don't bother mapping the thing; there are people that spend their entire lives mapping ruins and digs and such with not half the complexity of a recently devestated city and they still find new things on ground that has been covered a dozen times before. Mapping such a thing in anything but the very broadest of terms is futile.

Indeed, this was the approach that was taken with The Big Rubble (the original ruined city of Pavis for Runequest). They had a few key areas, but much was left unmarked. That left plenty of room for the GM to place things, and for the players to explore.

 

[S'mon]

The city in question is a hobgoblin city (my hobgoblins are very similar to those in Eberron) in a desert. The city was razed during a war 400 years ago. This was their capital and the whole empire was crushed, so it's got to be a huge map, if possible. I can tweak a lot of details, but I figured the closer recommendation, the better.

Gaxmoor ought to work well for this, it's a Roman-style walled city fallen into ruin, and many of the keyed encounters are with hobgoblins or similar humanoids (goblins, orcs, bugbears).

 

[Wycen]

How about the lost city of Barakus? http://paizo.com/store/byCompany/n/necromancerGames/trollLordGames/v5748btpy774b

 

[RichGreen]

Don't bother mapping the thing; there are people that spend their entire lives mapping ruins and digs and such with not half the complexity of a recently devestated city and they still find new things on ground that has been covered a dozen times before. Mapping such a thing in anything but the very broadest of terms is futile.

I did exactly the same thing in a recent adventure I wrote: I just detailed the three main locations and their relationship to each other. Worked fine.

Cheers


Richard

 

[Klaus]

If you can afford $4.95, the old TSR product from Onebookshelf called "Dragons of Despair" has one of the greatest ruined cities of all time in it -- Xak Tsaroth!

The city is mangled into several descending layers, as it was annihilated when a great cataclysm basically cast half of the city down a cliff. Full three-quarters perspective 3-D map, and some neat encounter ideas mixed in.

http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=908&

Tied up with the original Castle Ravenloft maps for Best Map of All Time.