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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JTorres" data-source="post: 6515021" data-attributes="member: 20774">Recently, I have been using a book called Parsantium to set my 5E game in.  Parsantium is a sprawling city that does a great job of meshing a traditional medieval fantasy setting with Greco-Roman, Indian, and Middle-Eastern influences.  The city itself is chiefly based on historical Byzantium and is designed to be dropped into the middle of any campaign world.  I was drawn to the fact that the setting itself, though intentioned for Pathfinder, deliberately presents little crunch to have to convert.  Instead, it gives a broad overview of the many neighborhoods, power groups, noble families, and criminal factions, etc found in the city.  The author gives good detail on each of these descriptions (with adventure hooks suggested) but not so much that I have no room to make the city my own.  And the same thing goes for NPCs; every neighborhood or faction has some NPCs described with an adventure idea or two sprinkled in.  The author maintains a blog with updates on Parsantium and he even offers free 5th edition conversions of a few key races to the setting.  Lastly, when I purchased this book off of Drive Thru RPG, I got a high-resolution JPEG of the gorgeous, full-color map city map that was perfect for blowing up to poster size.  If you are interested, here's the link to the author's Parsantium website:<a href="https://parsantium.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">https://parsantium.wordpress.com/</a></blockquote>

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