I need a small port city.

[MavrickWeirdo]

How about Colonial Boston

 

[BWP]

Can anyone suggest a product, pdf or print, that details a small, bustling, interesting port city that would fit? I am looking for something that has decent maps and lots of cool NPCs.

If you can find copies, Midkemia Press' Tulan and/or Carse (both were later published by Chaosium), and Blade's Citybook series (particularly Port o'Call, I think it was #2) could be useful to you, although none of them have a "New World" flavour.

Columbia's Cities of Hârn and Son of Cities have excellent maps, although again I suspect both are now long out of print. (Although Columbia sell photocopies of their OOP products, I think, so it might be worth checking their website.)

 

[haakon1]

How about Colonial Boston

I was thinking Jamestown -- basically, a motte and bailey castle of wood. Largish palisade fence, wooden blockhouse on an artificial hill, and a dozen or score of house and businesses.

For the small town characters, you might use The Village of Briarton.

 

[Sanackranib]

here is a great one

sanctuary from the thieves world setting is now back in print. the city started out as a pirate haven so im sure with a few adjustments it would work well for you.

 

[amethal]

Try Fish Side, a free download from The Forge.
http://www.theforge.pl/index.php?lang=us&pageset=old&page=darmowepdf

I used it as the home city for the PCs in my current game.

This has just become my second favourite website. They've got lots of free stuff, and the style of the drawings really appeals to me.

Thanks for the link, Cthulhu's Librarian.

Shame on you "the rest of Enworld" for keeping me ignorant of this site for so long!

I think the city in Dragon (Crimmor?) is on a river, rather than being a seaport.

The only one I can think of is Calimport, (which used to be) a free download on the WotC site - but that is no doubt way, way too big for your purposes.

 

[Decado]

I bought the DMG II yesterday and my first thought when reading your question was Saltmarsh. Great book btw!

 

[Frostmarrow]

Freeport could work! I'm surprised this hasn't come up yet.

I'm just a player but I always got the impression Freeport was located in a Carribean-eguivalent archipelago near a New World.

 

[WayneLigon]

The Game Mechanics city they're working on, with Thieve's Quarter and Temple Quarter released, might be good.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

This has just become my second favourite website. They've got lots of free stuff, and the style of the drawings really appeals to me.

Thanks for the link, Cthulhu's Librarian.

No problem.
The Forge has put out some excellent free downloads, and I really like their maps. They are located in Poland, I believe, so occasionally the translation of some of the text sounds a bit odd, but the work that they do is excellent. I hit them up for stuff for my game all the time.

 

[Rel]

Thanks for the link, Cthulhu's Librarian.

Shame on you "the rest of Enworld" for keeping me ignorant of this site for so long!

Fer serious!