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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9863863" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p>Pirate's Guide is a big 256 page hardcover with a ton of words, but I felt it did a good job of giving overviews and clear tones to start for the overall city and the individual districts to riff off of before getting into specifics and sample stuff. It also has clear strong conceptual themes that are vivid.</p><p></p><p>For me it might have helped that I started with the excellent short summaries in the module Death in Freeport and the <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/25605/the-freeport-trilogy-five-year-anniversary-edition?src=also_purchased&affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Five Year Freeport Trilogy Compilation</a>. The Pirate's Guide gave me more to work with when running my Freeport games even though I was making up a bunch of stuff and fitting it into my mashup campaign setting. I felt I had a solid base that was fairly easy to <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/death-in-freeport-info-thread.211469/" target="_blank">sum up and communicate succinctly to players</a> both with the official stuff and my riffing additions when running my Freeport campaigns (one pbp here and one face to face campaign).</p><p></p><p>I found it easier to delve into and get a sense of than <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/24802/ptolus-monte-cook-s-city-by-the-spire-ptolus-core?src=hottest_filtered&affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Ptolus</a>, or <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/55632/world-s-largest-city?src=hottest_filtered&affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">World's Largest City</a> (both of which are similar era huge D&D setting books), or even the old City State of the Invincible Overlord, which each detail tons of stuff and make huge sandboxes but seem less able to just dip into and get a sense of them. I love Ptolus and have the big books, but I mostly use a lot of the world info and not the city itself and work strongly out of the <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/11959/ptolus-a-player-s-guide-to-ptolus?src=also_purchased&affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">free 32-page player's guide</a>, while looking up occasional specifics from my PDF of the big Ptolus book.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 9863863, member: 2209"] Pirate's Guide is a big 256 page hardcover with a ton of words, but I felt it did a good job of giving overviews and clear tones to start for the overall city and the individual districts to riff off of before getting into specifics and sample stuff. It also has clear strong conceptual themes that are vivid. For me it might have helped that I started with the excellent short summaries in the module Death in Freeport and the [URL='https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/25605/the-freeport-trilogy-five-year-anniversary-edition?src=also_purchased&affiliate_id=17596']Five Year Freeport Trilogy Compilation[/URL]. The Pirate's Guide gave me more to work with when running my Freeport games even though I was making up a bunch of stuff and fitting it into my mashup campaign setting. I felt I had a solid base that was fairly easy to [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/death-in-freeport-info-thread.211469/']sum up and communicate succinctly to players[/URL] both with the official stuff and my riffing additions when running my Freeport campaigns (one pbp here and one face to face campaign). I found it easier to delve into and get a sense of than [URL='https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/24802/ptolus-monte-cook-s-city-by-the-spire-ptolus-core?src=hottest_filtered&affiliate_id=17596']Ptolus[/URL], or [URL='https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/55632/world-s-largest-city?src=hottest_filtered&affiliate_id=17596']World's Largest City[/URL] (both of which are similar era huge D&D setting books), or even the old City State of the Invincible Overlord, which each detail tons of stuff and make huge sandboxes but seem less able to just dip into and get a sense of them. I love Ptolus and have the big books, but I mostly use a lot of the world info and not the city itself and work strongly out of the [URL='https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/11959/ptolus-a-player-s-guide-to-ptolus?src=also_purchased&affiliate_id=17596']free 32-page player's guide[/URL], while looking up occasional specifics from my PDF of the big Ptolus book. [/QUOTE]
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