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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JohnNephew" data-source="post: 339354" data-attributes="member: 2171">Pages 20-141, inclusive, are the actual city descriptions.  To save space, buildings from smaller cities are "re-used" in larger cities.  (E.g., T10 is a scribe, described in the Thorp.  T10 also appears on the map of the Large City, so you can just transplant the building and NPCs there, if you please.)The introduction, covering pages 4-19, would be more of the "reference book" type material, as well as describing how to use the book (like explaining how the same buildings can be re-used in the different sized cities, etc.)I think I understand what you mean about the "make everything a sourcebook" issue.  What we've tried to do with Seven Cities and similar books (such as Seven Strongholds, or Backdrops) is provide plug-and-play bits that you can pick up and use in your game with a minimum of effort.  In fact, my first outline for Seven Cities was going to be "Seven Hamlets" -- just seven different ready-to-play villages, to make the GM's life easy.  We decided to go with the different city sizes instead, to make it a bit more broadly useful, and author Matt Forbeck thought up the great idea of re-using the buildings to make it all possible in a reasonably-sized (and priced) book.You also might be interested to take a look at "En Route," which is a book of short encounters.  It's been doing very well for us (and is likely to sell out soon, in fact; there will be a sequel, En Route 2: By Land or By Sea, next year), and seems to fill that need for smaller stuff (though it isn't exactly random encounter tables, nor monster lairs, but a little bit in between and more).  You can find reviews of En Route on this site, as well as other places (such as Monte Cook's site).</blockquote>

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