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<blockquote data-quote="Jürgen Hubert" data-source="post: 3318399" data-attributes="member: 7177"><p>I am actively developing such a list for <a href="http://juergen.the-huberts.net/dnd/urbis/index.html" target="_blank">Urbis</a>:</p><p></p><p></p><p>Game Books</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ken Hite: <strong>Suppressed Transmissions</strong>, <strong>Suppressed Transmissions 2</strong> - Plenty of weirdness from the real world (or at least the imagined real world)</li> </ul><p></p><p></p><p>Fiction</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Alberto Manguel: <strong>The Dictionary of Imaginary Places: The Newly Updated and Expanded Classic</strong> - There are plenty of unusual locales taken from literature in this book that beg to be used in a role-playing campaign.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Warren Ellis, John Cassaday: <strong>Planetary</strong>: A comic series where the protagonists are superhero archaeologists trying to uncover the secret history of their world. Its stories have a multitude of homages to superhero comics and other adventure stories of past decades while also showing that the world has moved on from them. In a similar way, Urbis tries to pay homage to the various fantasy worlds in general and Dungeon & Dragons settings in particular that came before it, and an entire campaign could be run with the player characters trying to uncover the secret history of Urbis - with plenty of suitable references to other classic role-playing game settings.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Many of his stories are appropriate for Urbis. A small sampling:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>The Cats of Ulthar</strong>, <strong>Celephais</strong>, <strong>The Doom That Came To Sarnath</strong>, <strong>The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath</strong>, and <strong>The White Ship</strong>: These "Dreamlands" stories are perfect for some of the stranger and more remote regions of Urbis, especially the Lake of Dreams.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>The Nameless City</strong>: Very appropriate for any of the desert regions.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>The Horror at Red Hook</strong>, <strong>The Rats in the Walls</strong>: Urban Horror at its best.</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">China Mieville: <strong>Perdido Street Station</strong> - The city of New Crobuzon wouldn't be too out of place in Urbis.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Francois Schuiten, Benoit Peeters: <strong>Brusel</strong>, <strong>Fever in Urbicand</strong>, <strong>The Invisible Frontier - The "<strong>Obscure Cities</strong>" (or "Cities of the Fantastic") were the primary inspiration for Urbis, and thus are highly recommended. Sadly, many titles of this fantastic series of comics are unavailable in English, including a brilliant guidebook to the Obscure Cities - but these titles should be enough to get you started.</strong></li> </ul><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Non-Fiction</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Edwin P. Hoyt: <strong>Japan's War</strong>: Gives the reader a good idea about the present political situation in Narevoreen - and what the future might bring...</strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Linda Nead: <strong>Victorian Babylon - People, Streets and Images in Nineteenth-Century London</strong>: Indispensible for the development of the city of Dartmouth, and highly inspirational for understanding how 19th century cities function.</strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh: <strong>Off the Books - The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor</strong>: While written from a modern-day perspective, the insights into how the shadow economies of cities work are timeless and equally applicable to the world of Urbis.</strong></li> </ul></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jürgen Hubert, post: 3318399, member: 7177"] I am actively developing such a list for [URL=http://juergen.the-huberts.net/dnd/urbis/index.html]Urbis[/URL]: Game Books [list] [*]Ken Hite: [b]Suppressed Transmissions[/b], [b]Suppressed Transmissions 2[/b] - Plenty of weirdness from the real world (or at least the imagined real world)[/list] Fiction [list] [*]Alberto Manguel: [b]The Dictionary of Imaginary Places: The Newly Updated and Expanded Classic[/b] - There are plenty of unusual locales taken from literature in this book that beg to be used in a role-playing campaign. [*]Warren Ellis, John Cassaday: [b]Planetary[/b]: A comic series where the protagonists are superhero archaeologists trying to uncover the secret history of their world. Its stories have a multitude of homages to superhero comics and other adventure stories of past decades while also showing that the world has moved on from them. In a similar way, Urbis tries to pay homage to the various fantasy worlds in general and Dungeon & Dragons settings in particular that came before it, and an entire campaign could be run with the player characters trying to uncover the secret history of Urbis - with plenty of suitable references to other classic role-playing game settings. [*]Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Many of his stories are appropriate for Urbis. A small sampling: [list] [*][b]The Cats of Ulthar[/b], [b]Celephais[/b], [b]The Doom That Came To Sarnath[/b], [b]The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath[/b], and [b]The White Ship[/b]: These "Dreamlands" stories are perfect for some of the stranger and more remote regions of Urbis, especially the Lake of Dreams. [*][b]The Nameless City[/b]: Very appropriate for any of the desert regions. [*][b]The Horror at Red Hook[/b], [b]The Rats in the Walls[/b]: Urban Horror at its best.[/list] [*]China Mieville: [b]Perdido Street Station[/b] - The city of New Crobuzon wouldn't be too out of place in Urbis. [*]Francois Schuiten, Benoit Peeters: [b]Brusel[/b], [b]Fever in Urbicand[/b], [b]The Invisible Frontier - The "[b]Obscure Cities[/b]" (or "Cities of the Fantastic") were the primary inspiration for Urbis, and thus are highly recommended. Sadly, many titles of this fantastic series of comics are unavailable in English, including a brilliant guidebook to the Obscure Cities - but these titles should be enough to get you started.[/b][/list][b] Non-Fiction [list][*]Edwin P. Hoyt: [b]Japan's War[/b]: Gives the reader a good idea about the present political situation in Narevoreen - and what the future might bring... [*]Linda Nead: [b]Victorian Babylon - People, Streets and Images in Nineteenth-Century London[/b]: Indispensible for the development of the city of Dartmouth, and highly inspirational for understanding how 19th century cities function. [*]Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh: [b]Off the Books - The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor[/b]: While written from a modern-day perspective, the insights into how the shadow economies of cities work are timeless and equally applicable to the world of Urbis.[/list][/b] [/QUOTE]
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