City Survivor - round 5!

[Zaukrie]

Wow, how can Glantri come off already?

It is the most interesting city I've ever seen. It has canals, it has a magocrocy, great back story, very cool rules that are still useful in 3.5 if you want - this is a great book.

This is the problem with voting off, rather than on. Not enough people have read this.

Lankhmar offers very little to the game compared to this. City of Brass - cool idea, but how many of you have ever used it? The others are all very usable in the game.

 

[Ron]

It appears that Glantri might survive another round, as more and more votes are being directed to Sharn, which I only know from other people commentaries.

 

[Ron]

Greyhawk. Bland. Nuff said.

Let me see, Greyhawk City is a cosmopolitan corrupt city developed by a mad wizard turned god, ruled by criminals full of prejudice against gypsies and still the shinning cultural center of its world. My definition of bland is definitely different than yours.

 

[lukelightning]

Come on folks, vote to boot Sigil from the house!

I hope Sigil gets blown away by a huge wind generated by all its energetic fans.

 

[Shemeska]

Wow, how can Glantri come off already?

Utter unfamiliarity. I'd never heard of the city before this thread, and I've never seen a single Mystara product on a store shelf. Ever. Was it a 2e setting? 1e?

City of Brass - cool idea, but how many of you have ever used it? The others are all very usable in the game.

To anyone who runs a planar campaign, it's awesome. Not Sigil or Dis awesome, but still awesome. A major trade city on the inner planes, but with a local environment and rulers that at the same time make it dangerous at the very least. Just getting to the place can be an adventure in and of itself. Out of any of the inner planar cities, I've used it most often despite it being more hostile than places like the City of Glass, Adrift, the Citadel of the Soul, etc.

 

[Zaukrie]

I agree that City of Brass is awesome, and I'd put it #3 on my list (while parts of PS drove me batty, Sigil is a truly original concept in execution), but we are approaching many cities that almost no one has used.

Glantri was a source book, and I think later part of a boxed set (but my memory may be off on that) when D&D was releasing source books on the D&D world. There were books on the dwarves, shadow elves, elves, halflings, and more. The Dwarves, halfling and Glantri books were the most interesting to me. These were not AD&D, but D&D rules sets.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Utter unfamiliarity. I'd never heard of the city before this thread, and I've never seen a single Mystara product on a store shelf. Ever. Was it a 2e setting? 1e?

It's one of the major locations in BD&D, later republished as a boxed set in 2E. Well worth grabbing the PDF for you, since it would be a natural fit as a Prime location in a plane-hopping campaign.

 

[Cthulhudrew]

Utter unfamiliarity. I'd never heard of the city before this thread, and I've never seen a single Mystara product on a store shelf. Ever. Was it a 2e setting? 1e?

As Whiz mentions, it was part of the BD&D line. First introduced (with the Known World) in module X1: The Isle of Dread. Glantri was later developed as the 3rd in the Gazetteer series about the Known World (wasn't yet called Mystara) that began to come out in 1987. Glantri- the nation and the city- kind of became one of the premiere locales of the Mystara setting, due to a variety of things that others have mentioned- high magic/fantasy elements, a large mixture of different cultural elements (based on RW cultures), a complex political/social structure, etc.

On the topic of the City of Brass, one of the reasons I included that city here is because its roots transcend just Planescape, IMO. I don't know when it was first mentioned in D&D, though I'm pretty sure it got mentioned in the Manual of the Planes (if not earlier), but it also is mentioned, obviously in Planescape, but in Mystara materials, Greyhawk, etc. And of course, there are the RW Arabian legend ties. So I thought it would be a good non-specific setting fit. It's a pretty interesting place, and I'm very interested in hearing more about the new campaign setting on it. Treebore created a thread for discussion about it here. Sounds cool.

 

[Shemeska]

Not just a n00b, but n00b'tastic

It's one of the major locations in BD&D, later republished as a boxed set in 2E. Well worth grabbing the PDF for you, since it would be a natural fit as a Prime location in a plane-hopping campaign.

I'll have to take a look at it. Thanks

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I think the City of Brass was first mentioned in the 1E DMG. It was the original cover (look at the back -- it's a wraparound) and it's discussed briefly in the lore of the Codex of the Infinite Planes.