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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ConnorSB" data-source="post: 1284370" data-attributes="member: 14273">Well, every good city needs a thieves guild, or at least... a bunch of thieves. I can field that. I'm working on one anyway for my own city which is... surprisingly like this one.Anyway, I think the best way to define a city is to define its districts. Every city is a collection of districts, and every district is a collection of neighborhoods, and neighborhods are where the flavor comes from. So the question arrises: what is the flavor of this city? Is it an over the top party city like paris, is it a somber Moscow (on a cold night), is it a lively but ancient London or Rome?Personally, I think the best way to define the city's flavor is to give it one or two unique quarters. Perhaps it is a corrupt, dying city. One quarter is a walled off slum called "The Stink" (i'm blatently stealing from dungeon, as some can tell), where the sewage got so bad that they had to evacuate, and now its the elephant in the parlor that the corrupt buearaucracy just doesn't want to deal with.Maybe its an antisocial city, and forigners are only allowed into the Quarter of Strangers. If they try to cross into the real city, they get killed quickly.Maybe the city is dominated by noble families to which the whole city is attatched. All of them are quite old and have tendrals through the whole city, especially the underbelly. And they are at war with each other, so the Noble's Quarter is a hotbed of covert magical conflict...Its all about the neighborhoods...</blockquote>

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