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<blockquote data-quote="Gez" data-source="post: 3680815" data-attributes="member: 1328">How to make a better City of Union?First, make it stranger. It's a planar city of epic magic. It shouldn't be a normal city. Have the city be sentient or something. No incarnation of that sentience (it would be too Lady of Pain-esque), just treat the whole thing as a creature.Second, when you have twelve thousand epic characters, you have zero epic character. If they want to be epic, they have to be rare. So, decrease population a lot, to the point where a DM could easily know all of the NPCs of the city (not counting possible lackeys and retainers).Who's gonna sweep the trash out of the street? No one! The city cleans itself. Who's gonna quard the entries? No one! The city doesn't need sentinels. And so on. Who builds the mansions and palaces? No one! If the city deems you worth, it creates a home for you. If it wants you to leave, your building disappears.Oh yeah, and no merchant of any kind. Everyone's already so rich and powerful they don't need anything. If you want to trade for something you can't do yourself, trade directly with the one guy in the whole universe you can -- it's not going to be something a fishmonger, even a 15th-level one, could sell you anyway or you wouldn't need to go to Union to find it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gez, post: 3680815, member: 1328"] How to make a better City of Union? First, make it stranger. It's a planar city of epic magic. It shouldn't be a normal city. Have the city be sentient or something. No incarnation of that sentience (it would be too Lady of Pain-esque), just treat the whole thing as a creature. Second, when you have twelve thousand epic characters, you have zero epic character. If they want to be epic, they have to be rare. So, decrease population [i]a lot[/i], to the point where a DM could easily know all of the NPCs of the city (not counting possible lackeys and retainers). Who's gonna sweep the trash out of the street? No one! The city cleans itself. Who's gonna quard the entries? No one! The city doesn't need sentinels. And so on. Who builds the mansions and palaces? No one! If the city deems you worth, it creates a home for you. If it wants you to leave, your building disappears. Oh yeah, and no merchant of any kind. Everyone's already so rich and powerful they don't need anything. If you want to trade for something you can't do yourself, trade directly with the one guy in the whole universe you can -- it's not going to be something a fishmonger, even a 15th-level one, could sell you anyway or you wouldn't need to go to Union to find it. [/QUOTE]

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