In what format do you want your fantasy city presented?

[Nighthawk]

I would prefer a seperate one for the players' and another for the gms. I am sure laziness is a part of that, but it also helps tremendously that a document can be given to the players without needing the gms attention over and over. This is something I prefer for settings as well.

Please note that since typing on a keyboard is quite the chore for myself, my bias is overwhelming in this regard.

 

[NewJeffCTHome]

I want one product. Everything is DM information and the DM decides what is player knowledge. I see no reason why any PC should know where the theives guild is located or anything about it normally. City books are like modules. It would be nice for a player's map, one page handout of what everybody knows, and another longer handout including laws, customs, and desriptions of public stores and major officials that locals would know or that PCs would find out over time.

Good idea. There should be a couple of handouts - one is information that a PC local to the area would know, the other is for a PC that is not a local.

 

[DragonLancer]

I voted for seperate products even though I wouldn't really want it to go that route. I do find however, that products such as city books put DM info along side Player info but shouldn't.

I am a fan of player info Gaz's for settings so the idea of doing the same for a city (perhaps a two book bundle) explains my answer.

 

[Arnwyn]

Combined. I'm only interested in straight DM info. I decide who gets what and in what format.

 

[Altalazar]

Separate products is best. That way if you want to use it, as is, you can give the one book to your players to read.

On the other hand, for my own campaigns, I never use things published "as is" so it would be of limited utility to have a players book - since much of it would be different anyway. So for all practical purposes, the format wouldn't matter much for my game world. But I still like the concept of two separate books.

 

[Lord Morte]

One book, Two sections: One for players and one for DMs. You could make them seperate books within one boxed set, along with a fold-out map.