City Supplements - What do we like?

[Fenris-77]

I other news I have a cover I like.

 

[Fenris-77]

I realized after I'd posted it (several places) that the whole title-image group is way too low on the cover. I have since fixed that issue. It's funny, but posting WiPs for public consumption creates its own kind of editing process.

 

[Simon Miles]

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 exemplars and best practices out there for city supplements. I don't want to restrict the conversation to just fantasy games either. It seems like city supplements are ripe for the kind of over-written lore dump that I cordially dislike in my RPG books, and a survey of my collection hasn't changed my mind much on that score.

So what are your favorite city sourcebooks, or specific mechanics, or procedures, or rules? You might even tell us why!

I started mine after reading Irilean in White Dwarf magazine back in about 1983. It's been revised and modified to make it adaptable to high and low magic but it's strength is the low-level whimsy, humour and flexibility, I think: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/14527/Dunromin-University-Press?affiliate_id=295776