World's Largest City [Merged]

[jekessler]

Do you have trolls and goblins walking down the street shopping for vegetables?

I haven't seen the finished product, so things may have changed.

There is, as noted noted earlier, a Humaniods District, but IIRC they don't get to freely wander the city itself, but are rather segregated into their own area beyond the main walls. Kind of a chaotic remnant of various attacks and seiges over the years, that has grown into something more permanent, and left alone to keep the humanoids preoccupied on matters besides a coordinated attack. Primary (official) interaction with the city is as a dumping ground for convicts and as recruiting grounds for the Gladitator games.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Basic question: What the heck is the city's name?

And that breakdown makes me curious about this book. Hopefully a store around here has it so I can flip through it.

 

[jim pinto]

Basic question: What the heck is the city's name?

And that breakdown makes me curious about this book. Hopefully a store around here has it so I can flip through it.

i don't know if it has a name... i remember us talking about NOT naming it, so DMs could use it for whatever they like

although naming it certianly wouldn't have ruined the book, either

so... my lame post is... i don't know

aren't you glad i chimed in on that?

 

[rgard]

I'm holding out for World's Largest World.

Me too. It's so big, the gravity is 20x that of Earth. Everybody plays a sentient pancake.

Thanks,
Rich

 

[raynbow]

I'm a very lazy GM So I'm just curious, is there a 'campaign' that goes along with the city? It sounds like there are quests and adventure hooks around, but is there a way to fit them together? Or a story path? Or even enough of these quests and such to make a continuous campaign? Anyone know?

 

[jgbrowning]

Everybody plays a sentient pancake.

Thanks,
Rich

Flumph.

joe b.

 

[DM_Jeff]

Review still pending. Funny story, actually. It came in the mail last week. The kids, home from school, called my wife. She told them to wrap it and label it and hide it on me until Christmas since she had no idea what it was, she just knows I expect packages like this sometimes and they're all gaming related! So right now WLC is somewhere in my own house, pending a full read starting next Monday. I'll chime in again next week. :\

-DM Jeff

 

[Hawkshere]

I saw this book in a mall store last night. Didn't have time to really look at it, but it's in the retail pipe now.

 

[Crothian]

Is it just a city with a billion adventure hooks or is a bit more connected like a module?

 

[DM_Jeff]

Is it just a city with a billion adventure hooks or is a bit more connected like a module?

OK, at least from what I remember from the original writer's bible, it's not a module. You were supposed to link many of the locations you wrote about to make many storylines. As in, if you wrote a city section with 100 locations, you could link many of them together to make a big story, with NPCs, items, and plots linked through different locations the PC visited. Some were to be minor, like only 1 or 2 locations, some were self-contained, and some sprawled all over the city. The developers were then going to link a few across the different districts. of course, this was a long time ago, and I had nothing to do with any of that.

IIRC the idea was to give a city for the players to explore and the DM to use as a resource of exciting and interesting locations for the players, using the plots or not.

-DM Jeff