World's Largest City [Merged]

[Treebore]

Over on RPG.net they posted that it was 5 advance copies and that they were told the book would be for sale in a month or two. So I would guess they are hoping to hit the Christmas market, but aren't sure if they will make it in time.

Probably the slow boat from China problems so many publishers have been having.

 

[jdrakeh]

I put CSIO (original) in the Bandit Kingdoms of Greyhawk, and as one of the border cities along the western edge of the Horde Lands. I thought it was rather easy to do. Guess this falls under the "different things for different folks" category.

I'll quickly indulge your thread hi-jack to explain myself. . .

CSotIO is easy to adapt, but this isn't the same thing as being generic -- you need to ignore quite a bit of stuff (e.g., the real Earth pantheons, the highly advanced magical tech of the Overlord, etc) in order to make it a good, sensible, fit for any setting that doesn't include these things by default (which, IME, is most settings).

A truly generic city supplement won't include such setting-specific detail to begin with -- it will leave gods, specific technologies, and most other such setting-specific things largely undefined in the itnerest of not confining its scope to one specific setting. No edition of the City State really did this, although the original comes closest.

[Edit: I appropriately had the 3.5 edition in mind when I posted, as this thread is discussing 3x city supplements for D&D.]

 

[zapogee]

Piazo is selling "The Worlds Largest City"
http://paizo.com/store/byCompany/a/alderac/featuredBrands/d20System/v5748btpy7qm6

 

[The_Old_one]

I can't see a page count on the Paizo listing, which seems odd to me. Anyone know how big this sucker is?

 

[DM_Jeff]

Who's the new line developer? If you can't say due to an NDA, I totally understand. Curious, me, since a great many WLD contributors were promised slots for writing WLC, which obviously wasn't followed through on for whatever reason.

I forget his name, it's a regular who is still a staff member at AEG, IIRC. Unfortunately I don't know who the other writers were. In fact my wife and I can't even remember what we wrote (and we did work on WLD).

-DM Jeff

 

[jim pinto]

And with those mystical words, the "summon jim pinto I" spell is complete. It just takes 1d4 days for it to now take effect.

-DM Jeff

did someone roll a 3?

jesus... what have i become... making jokes like that

sigh

anyway

the book WAS released at gencon socal.

jim hague is very wrong.

i do not have a copy yet to review, because they only had about 10 or so early releases from the printer. but it should hit stores before christmas, if all goes well.

the cover looks good. although it printed a little light, but o'connor did do all the work again. the maps are fair. but i don't have anything else to report.

doug sun was the developer for this product and i respect his work. and i was in on the ground floor, so i can say that our game plan was to create something more easily intergrateable than the WLD was.

it's just over 600 pages, btw

for anyone who is keeping track.

how is everyone?

 

[jim pinto]

I forget his name, it's a regular who is still a staff member at AEG, IIRC. Unfortunately I don't know who the other writers were. In fact my wife and I can't even remember what we wrote (and we did work on WLD).

-DM Jeff

rob vaux also worked on the project.

he was in house until about a year ago. doug sun is a gun for hire.

 

[jim pinto]

I'm hoping for World's Largest Tavern.

now there's a book i would love to work on

complete with a bard dj who you can throw bottles at and a gnome you can dunk in a giant tankard

 

[catsclaw227]

i do not have a copy yet to review, because they only had about 10 or so early releases from the printer. but it should hit stores before christmas, if all goes well.

the cover looks good. although it printed a little light, but o'connor did do all the work again. the maps are fair. but i don't have anything else to report.

doug sun was the developer for this product and i respect his work. and i was in on the ground floor, so i can say that our game plan was to create something more easily intergrateable than the WLD was.

it's just over 600 pages, btw

for anyone who is keeping track.

This is news I can digest. I am pretty sure this will be on my list of purchases. When you say that the maps are "fair", are you looking through the lenses of someone with high expectations or are they really just "fair" compared to other products?

 

[jim pinto]

This is news I can digest. I am pretty sure this will be on my list of purchases. When you say that the maps are "fair", are you looking through the lenses of someone with high expectations or are they really just "fair" compared to other products?

fair because i only saw a tiny corner of one and since i did NOT art direct this project, i have no idea how good or bad they may have turned out

i am extremely judgemental about such things, so take it with a grain of salt

just know that it turned out better than i had seen previously and that i'm pretty excited about getting my free copy