What is your favorite city to base your campaign around?

[MEG Hal]

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

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

Blink--I am here yes we are now all MEG and we have soem great support material out for Bluffside as well as some great items for 2003!!!

 

[davewoodrum]

I usually design my own cities with a little program that I made to help me flesh out the bulk of the descriptive work, with regards to published material I guess I'm going to be kinda "trite" and say Waterdeep even though I'm not too big on playing many published campaigns a great deal myself, especially the ones from the larger companies. I just happen to like Waterdeep because it was sooooo huge that you could do about anything with it you wanted.

 

[Cedric]

Whisperdale Falls...my own city.

Imagine a fairly wide continent with a great deal of development on the east and west coasts. The center of the continent is very undeveloped though...except for Whisperdale Falls (WF as I'll call it).

WF is the "rest" point for caravans travelling from one coast to another. The trans-continental highway is a well guarded, well protected road. But just a few miles to either side of it is pure wilderness.

WF is the city where the druids, paladins, rangers and more militant churches base their operations to try to "cleanse" the wilderness.

This is all built on the remains of an ancient empire. So you occasionally will encounter mausoleums, churches, roads, villages (all in ancient ruin, at least a 2000 years old).

Only the Elves really remember what happened. The humans do not.

Whisperdale Falls is a city of about 15,000 people with a "large town" feel to it. Mostly because it doesn't attract the niceties and amenities of other cities. It still has a harsh, wilderness feel to it.

Would be adventurers almost ALWAYS start out their careers as caravan guards that are hired in WF for speciliazed duties like scouting and reconnaissance.

The cities on the East and West coasts are cultured, advanced and more then just a little bit snotty about it.

Cedric

 

[Deedlit]

Kendermore or Hylo, I can't decide between the two of them.

 

[Larry Fitz]

Self-serving plug for new product

City setting you say? May I not so humbly suggest you check out this thread on the D20 publisher's forum... um... this one right here. After reading my post there, you may come away feeling I'm excited about sharing this product with all of you, that's because I am...

 

[MEG Hal]

Re: Self-serving plug for new product

City setting you say? May I not so humbly suggest you check out this thread on the D20 publisher's forum... um... this one right here. After reading my post there, you may come away feeling I'm excited about sharing this product with all of you, that's because I am...

I ahve been waiting for awhile on this, John F has teased me forever on this, when is it due out?

 

[Larry Fitz]

Hal! Hi there... It will be at our distributor on Jan 17, pre-orders have already begun piling up, and our distribution manager has authorized me to tell EnWorlders that if they pre-order through our website that they can get it shipped free anywhere in the U.S. If the pre-order software isn't working yet for that book they can pre-order by sending an e-mail to Inger@LivingImagination.com, tell them you read my post and that way the people in distribution can marvel at how cool it is to post on EnWorld....

From the number of pre-orders Osseum already has from retailers we may be looking at a second printing this year. We are VERY excited about this book, both as creators and players. I'm running two different campaigns and I intend to have both go there and explore the city...

 

[Melan]

Two of them, in fact:
a) City State of the Invincible Overlord : the first city supplement for D&D remains the best to this day. In only 80 pages, it has more good stuff than anything else crammed between its covers. Plus lots of imaginative content, rules and additional stuff, not to mention the best city maps ever. Oh yes, and dungeons, an additional smaller city, etc. I am eagerly awaiting the d20 version, which should come out this year.
b)Lankhmar : this book had three editions, of which I own the first two. The first edition is better - fewer illustrations and location writeups, but a lot more inspired. You can't go wrong with Lankhmar. Maps are good as well, but not as good as in the City State (which is broken down to the level of rooms in buildings!).

 

[DungeonKeeperUK]

I'd have to say Bluffside too, for the obvious reasons Klugey said above, "I writted lumps of it", so I know the place pretty much inside out.... Its nice to see there are others out there too who love the city and have found a place for it in their world....

Mr Troman

 

[johnsemlak]

Two of them, in fact:
a) City State of the Invincible Overlord : the first city supplement for D&D remains the best to this day. In only 80 pages, it has more good stuff than anything else crammed between its covers. Plus lots of imaginative content, rules and additional stuff, not to mention the best city maps ever. Oh yes, and dungeons, an additional smaller city, etc. I am eagerly awaiting the d20 version, which should come out this year.

Is that an old Judges's Guild product? I never owned any JG stuff.

b)Lankhmar : this book had three editions, of which I own the first two. The first edition is better - fewer illustrations and location writeups, but a lot more inspired. You can't go wrong with Lankhmar. Maps are good as well, but not as good as in the City State (which is broken down to the level of rooms in buildings!).

Anybody know if a d20 version is in the works?