World's Largest City [Merged]

[DM_Jeff]

DM Jeff, I expect a review by Friday.

I'll have my copy before next Friday, I'm sure. It's en route as we speak...



-DM Jeff

 

[catsclaw227]

I just got it from buy.com. I wonder when I will actually receive it though?

 

[jim pinto]

mike leader is sending my copy and i should have it before xmas

but no guarantee on a real review...

again... doug sun should be here any minute now

yep

any minute

he'll be posting on here

with real notes

yep

 

[BlueBlackRed]

mike leader is sending my copy and i should have it before xmas

but no guarantee on a real review...

again... doug sun should be here any minute now

yep

any minute

he'll be posting on here

with real notes

yep

I think you should forward your copy on to me.
It's not like I didn't earn it

 

[EricNoah]

Could someone who has it look at the contributor list -- and check around, oh, I don't know, letter N? Just curious.

 

[elijah snow]

WLC Details

After announcing I had the book, I have had zero free time in the last few days, so I apologize for not answering questions. I haven't actually had a chance to read it chapter by chapter, but maybe this info will be helpful.

Table of Contents
Introduction (A good 18 pages)
District A: Dwarves
District B: Humanoids
District C: Entertainment
District D: Bazaar
District E: Nobles
District F: Guards
District G: Travelers
District H: Lamplighters
District I: Government
District J: The Spire
District K: Academy
District L: Artisans
District M: Docks
District N: Warehouses
District O: Naval
District P: Elves
Appendix: NPC Stats
The Maps!

I'll outline what's in the chapter on District A: Dwarven District
1. Overview
2. Locations (35 specific ones)
3. Quests
4. Random Encounters

The chapter is also shot through with sidebars, stories, plot hooks, and excellent art.

I haven't read enough to know the "feel" of the city. However, I am also a big fan of Ptolus and I sense that this book has a completely different tone and feel, but I am just as excited to read it as I was Monte's tome.

 

[elijah snow]

Could someone who has it look at the contributor list -- and check around, oh, I don't know, letter N? Just curious.

I'm afraid I don't see any writers whose last name starts with N. :\

 

[EricNoah]

Ok, good to know -- thanks.

FWIW, my submission was the idea of a children's pickpocket gang, with fairly elaborate tree-house for a hideout. I think I put a halfling in there as well as a noble's runaway child.

 

[Odhanan]

District J: The Spire

There's a Spire in the WLC? Like Ptolus?

Also, what about the "feel" of the city? I guess it's some patchwork of different districts with different feels to them, but what about the "cement" that binds the areas together? Do you have trolls and goblins walking down the street shopping for vegetables? Is it a more historically-correct kind of setting? A setting of wizardry? Of Learning? Of backstabbing nobles and thieves? Who rules? That kind of thing.

 

[jim pinto]

There's a Spire in the WLC? Like Ptolus?

Also, what about the "feel" of the city? I guess it's some patchwork of different districts with different feels to them, but what about the "cement" that binds the areas together? Do you have trolls and goblins walking down the street shopping for vegetables? Is it a more historically-correct kind of setting? A setting of wizardry? Of Learning? Of backstabbing nobles and thieves? Who rules? That kind of thing.

the spire is sort of the city "center" where the religion orders congregate

without giving anything away, the spire is the reason the city exists, BUT it is not by any means an anchor to every campaign set in the city

the concept was devised by the entire team a few months before i left, so i can at least say that patrick, doug, rob, and myself had a good reason for putting it there ... if you accept that the WLD "prison" is a good reason for a dungeon to exist of that magnitude