I need a city - looking for product recommendations

[Ahzad]

Ptolus the various sections are enough for small cities themselves.
Sanctuary
Freeport
Rock of Bral remove it from space and drop in onto land.

 

[blargney the second]

You guys are awesome! I'm learning about all sorts of products I didn't even know existed.

 

[grufflehead]

From Paradigm Concepts Arcanis campaign the City of Secrets: Nishanpur might fit (There's an adventure too Blood reign of Nishanpur). Substitute the Demons with the Dream Dark, Cultists with the Inspired and you should be good to go. Though I do not know much about the quality of these products.

Paradigm stuff is generally pretty decent. In fact, Nishanpur was an off-shoot of their Living campaign which was (in the early days at least) reckoned to be one of the best developed of the living format campaigns, with a very well developed plot and setting. Not sure how you'd get your hands on them, but as well as Blood Reign, there are 2 (?) years worth of the Living arc plot adventures which must add up to about another dozen or so 'rounds' worth of material. Maybe asking nicely on the Living Arcanis yahoo group (as livingarcanis.com has disappeared - maybe in preparation for the launch of their new system?). If you do try and find any of that stuff, there is a bit of work to do in that one of the pecularities of the setting is that the only metal armour and weapons allowed in the city are made of special 'sacred' steel; and it is very expensive. You can try to smuggle other stuff in, but if you get caught... Might add an interesting twist to the game at least!

When I first saw this, I had a momentary pang of nostalgia - a combination of chalking up another year on Saturday, and the untimely death of Ronnie James Dio on Sunday. Firstly I remembered the original Thieves' World box, spending months adventuring in Sanctuary, meeting the likes of Jubal, Lythande and Enas Yorl.

Then I thought of Irillian, home of Zotoquaan the wizard, which appeared originally in White Dwarf. It had that slightly wacky, slightly amateurish feel of a lot of early WD, but done with the very best of intentions, and hiding the odd gem, often in the least expected places It was collected together in Best of WD Scenarios vol III, but a bit of web searching suggests that's about as hard to come by as Umbar unfortunately.

I've still got a very moth-eaten copy, which I did enjoy flicking through again for old times' sake. But in the end, it just made me feel old *sniff*

 

[Thanael]

Interesting. So Living Arcanis was something like the RPGA Living campaigns?

P.S.: The homepage got archived at the Wayback machine The downloads are not archived unfortunately but you can glean the filenames from the links at least and search for them elsewhere.

 

[grufflehead]

Interesting. So Living Arcanis was something like the RPGA Living campaigns?

Yup, they had their adventures hosted through the RPGA for 4 (?) years worth of their 6 year arc. I think it was WotC's prep for 4E that led to that relationship ending, so Paradigm made the adventures available through their site, and you could request marketplaces from the campaign staff.

 

[blargney the second]

As a result of this thread, I ended up going with Bluffside. Thanks for your help, everybody!

 

[grodog]

Even though it sounds like you've made your decision, blargney the second, I'll share my favorite city-based supplements/adventures:

• Lankhmar City of Adventure (TSR)
• Thieves World (Chaosium, boxed set)
• The Free City of Haven (plus supplements, by Gamelords; various Thieves Guild materials from Gamelords would also fit in nicely)
• Cities, Tulan, Carse, Towns of the Outlands (Mikdemia Press but Cities, Tulan, and Carse were also reprinted by Chaosium)
• Bard's Gate (Necromancer Games)
• Marienburg and Warharmmer City (Games Workshop)
• FR1 Waterdeep
• Citybook series (Blade/Flying Buffalo)
• "Barnacus: City in Peril" (Dragon Magazine #80)
• Greyhawk: The Adventure Begins (WotC)
• Pavis and Big Rubble (Chaosium)

Cumberland Games just released a 48 page preview .pdf of Town, which looks promising (but I haven't made time to read it yet, since I'm prepping for the North TX RPG Con which begins on Thursday).

 

[amerigoV]

I always thought this was an interesting supplement. It nests 7 different sized settlements into one product. So you can "pick your size" as needed.

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