WORLD's LARGEST CITY - REVIEW?
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Infernal Teddy
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I've been out of the d20 loop for the last six months - it actually got released?
DM_Jeff
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Infernal Teddy said:
Yes, it was released December 2006. I have it, and there was a thread where I posted lots of musings and points of interest as I read through it. Wish I knew where that thread is now!
It's not bad, it's expensive. It's the best "drop and drag location into the city you're currently running" book I know.
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Odhanan
Adventurer
Got it a few weeks ago. Shuffled through it and read the overview. Then I put it back on my shelf.
If you want a huge vanilla city (with a sort of one race=one district organization) and/or drop-and-drag locations, it may be worth it.
Personally, I own both Ptolus and WLC, and I think the two mammoths just can't be compared with each other. I think Ptolus is great on an organizational level, as well as the contents, physical realization of the thing, the sheer level of details, the coherence of it all, how it "makes sense of DnD", its usability and ergonomy for all sorts of DMs and gaming groups... I can "see" Ptolus in my head and imagine each district and location vividly.
WLC by comparison seems soulless to me.
To put it another way, for me Ptolus represents the best RPG cash I ever spent. WLC is "just another d20 book".
If you want a huge vanilla city (with a sort of one race=one district organization) and/or drop-and-drag locations, it may be worth it.
Personally, I own both Ptolus and WLC, and I think the two mammoths just can't be compared with each other. I think Ptolus is great on an organizational level, as well as the contents, physical realization of the thing, the sheer level of details, the coherence of it all, how it "makes sense of DnD", its usability and ergonomy for all sorts of DMs and gaming groups... I can "see" Ptolus in my head and imagine each district and location vividly.
WLC by comparison seems soulless to me.
To put it another way, for me Ptolus represents the best RPG cash I ever spent. WLC is "just another d20 book".
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Odhanan
Adventurer
Yes I got Sharn.
See, Sharn has a soul of its own, and identity because its the "City of Towers", it has all the Eberron flavor, the university, the goblin antiquity, a well defined history, the cool art and all that. You can visualize Sharn fairly easily using the sourcebook, right?
I can't do that with WLC. It's like a succession of locations, but it doesn't seem to have a soul of its own. If I try to picture it, I just see blurry and average medieval buildings with the district of dwarves, district of elves etc but no particular feature or tone to it beyond... a Spire right in the middle of the city (no, I am not talking about Ptolus here... but WLC. That's right. WLC has a Spire too...). The art doesn't help much in this regard (edit - there is more art in the book than WLD comparatively, but it doesn't help me define what the WLC is about beyond being "a fantasy city" that happens to be big. The art is mostly depicting a character here and a character there in black and white, but I see no map whatsoever -beyond the myriad maps included with the book that each represent a different area of the WLC, I mean-, no diagrams, just plain text describing keyed locations, one after the other. I don't get any "vibe" from WLC. See what I mean?
See, Sharn has a soul of its own, and identity because its the "City of Towers", it has all the Eberron flavor, the university, the goblin antiquity, a well defined history, the cool art and all that. You can visualize Sharn fairly easily using the sourcebook, right?
I can't do that with WLC. It's like a succession of locations, but it doesn't seem to have a soul of its own. If I try to picture it, I just see blurry and average medieval buildings with the district of dwarves, district of elves etc but no particular feature or tone to it beyond... a Spire right in the middle of the city (no, I am not talking about Ptolus here... but WLC. That's right. WLC has a Spire too...). The art doesn't help much in this regard (edit - there is more art in the book than WLD comparatively, but it doesn't help me define what the WLC is about beyond being "a fantasy city" that happens to be big. The art is mostly depicting a character here and a character there in black and white, but I see no map whatsoever -beyond the myriad maps included with the book that each represent a different area of the WLC, I mean-, no diagrams, just plain text describing keyed locations, one after the other. I don't get any "vibe" from WLC. See what I mean?
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