What is your favorite city to base your campaign around?

[caudor]

I really like pre-made cities. One of the first cities I recall really getting into was: Gary Gygax presents Fantasy Master: Town of Baldemar (by Robert J. Blake).

Bluffside is great so far...I have not finished reading it. Freeport is excellent.

I like the city in the adventure St. Anton's Fire and some other adventures from Troll Lord Games. Atlas Games has some good stuff too. There is alot of good city stuff.

By the way, has anyone ever seen the full color poster drawing/map of the city of Raven's Bluff (from Gateway to Ravens Bluff, I think)? There is another like it of Waterdeep as well (from FR1 Waterdeep and the North....or City of Splendors..can't remember). These types of maps double as drawings...I really like them.

 

[arwink]

I tend to use city maps from various places, and steal liberally from anything I can get my hands on, but mostly I home-brew cities to get the flavor just right. They're large places, and it's often hard to place something whole-hog into a game without making massive changes anyway. So far, no published setting has really captured my imagination, but I also haven't looked at any of the 3e options yet.


That being said, I'm a huge fan of pre-published smaller communities that don't require as much change. I'm having great fun with Hommlet (RttToEE) and Bellhold(OSM) as the primary town settings of my campaign so far though.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Bluffside all the way! It is very easy to build into your games. It has locations, locations and locations, it also has NPCs and NPCs and plot hooks. It also can grow with your game.

Freeport okay but is a place to adventure in but your players never stay there nor keep going back to it.

 

[Sniktch]

Wow, with this many rave reviews I may have to check out Bluffside. That's Thunderhead Games, right?

Once upon a time my favorite published city was Greyhawk, but that was a loooong time ago. These days I'm leaning towards Freeport.

 

[shilsen]

In my Greyhawk campaign, I set the story in the city of Flen in Keoland. I never bothered much with canonical material, just checking the approximate population and location, and then fleshing it out on my own to fit the campaign. I don't use maps of the city. Just descriptions, and so far it's gone fine.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Wow, with this many rave reviews I may have to check out Bluffside. That's Thunderhead Games, right?

Once upon a time my favorite published city was Greyhawk, but that was a loooong time ago. These days I'm leaning towards Freeport.

Use to be Thunderhead games, now mergered with Mystic Eye games.

THG Hal, a visitor of this site should be along in a few...

 

[Nightfall]

Bluffside! But I've yet to read the various cities I have in the SL settings, although I doubt they are as DM Friendly & Universal as Bluffside is.

EDIT

Whoops. In 2nd Ed that would be Sigil. Need some 3rd Ed stats for that sucka ;D

Well I think Hollowfaust is VERY Dm friendly. But that's just me.

 

[Nightfall]

For me, the best d20 city is certainly Bluffside followed very closely by Freeport.

I will say there some great Scarred Lands cities that can stand alone, but probably Hollowfaust (so far) stands out as one of the best, for most unique cities ever.

 

[Sanackranib]

favorite city

Llangwyr (one of the major and provincial cities in Darakeene -from the Scarred Lands). I'm trying to get my players to like it too.

 

[Deadguy]

Originally posted by Nightfall
Well I think Hollowfaust is VERY Dm friendly. But that's just me.

I'll be fair: Hollowfaust is an excellent city! It does a good job of getting the atmosphere of the place across, which is important when you're describing a city run by necromancers (and not your average drooling crypt lord, either, but analytical necromancers!). It does contain details of important NPCs and plenty of adventure seeds.

It's just that Bluffside has more of the above: more description, more NPCs and more adventure seeds. The net effect is that Hollowfaust is a great place for characters to visit, whilst Bluffside makes a good base for characters to operate from (or the basis of an urban camapign). Or to put it another way: Bluffside is more a typical fantasy city; Hollowfaust is a special city fully described.