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Best Fantasy City Supplements

Started by crkrueger, October 29, 2014, 05:50:19 PM

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October 29, 2014, 05:50:19 PM Last Edit: October 29, 2014, 06:16:15 PM by CRKrueger
Entire city, Big Book of Taverns, website with random generators, cool maps, whatever.  List your favorite city supplements.

Site with some generators.
Massive list of city books, with links to books for other genres.
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Will

#1
October 29, 2014, 06:57:24 PM
I enjoyed Hollowfaust: City of Necromancers

Review here: http://www.dndarchive.com/content/hollowfaust-city-necromancers

An interesting example of non-evil depiction of necromancers.
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October 29, 2014, 07:58:09 PM
The Free City of Haven, for Thieves Guild from Gamelords.

Ladybird

#3
October 29, 2014, 08:23:26 PM
Blacksand, nominally for Advanced Fighting Fantasy (2e, although Blacksand! for 1e is similar); it's a grimy, slightly mad, fantasy pirate city that's very, very tightly controlled by it's guilds and it's authoritarian ruler; there's plenty of wierd to be had, plenty of politics to get into, but it also still feels like a place people could really live in.

Also, a Discworld encyclopedia. Ankh-Morpork is a fascinatingly odd place with it's own distinctly bizarre culture, that could cope with PC's really well.
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#4
October 29, 2014, 08:24:12 PM
The JG OD&D City State of the Invincible Overlord version I got off RPGnow was great, better than the 3e Necromancer Games version. Other than that I haven't seen many city books I'm too happy with - not too impressed by 4e D&D Neverwinter Campaign Setting or 2e AD&D City of Greyhawk, say. 1e AD&D Lankhmar: City of Adventure was pretty good. I ordered Vornheim from Paizo but they were out of stock. :(
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October 29, 2014, 09:00:13 PM
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#6
October 29, 2014, 09:24:51 PM
Paizo's Shackled City!

Which is a single city plus series of adventures in the city going 1-20 (I think).

Loads of material, though I don't own it -- I was in a campaign run using it. It did seem to suffer from 'padding word count.' (with long stupid lists of things, sometimes)
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October 29, 2014, 09:58:00 PM
The ones from White Wolf for their Scarred Lands d20 setting were pretty good. Hollowfaust and Shelzar both felt like really weird, creepy fantasy cities. The first with undead and the second sleaze.

Larsdangly

#8
October 29, 2014, 10:01:48 PM
Pavis and the Big Rubble sets the curve for me.

The Butcher

#9
October 29, 2014, 10:36:18 PM
I love the Palladium Fantasy Old Ones supplement. Kevin's a disciple of the JG crew and it shows.

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#10
October 30, 2014, 02:40:02 AM
Zak S' Vornheim is on my to-buy list. I flipped through a copy and I was impressed. Here's two reviews:

http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/15/15982.phtml
http://grognardia.blogspot.com/2011/05/review-vornheim.html

Quote from: The Butcher;795051I love the Palladium Fantasy Old Ones supplement. Kevin's a disciple of the JG crew and it shows.

Old Ones is a good book. BTW, Kevin Siembieda is ex-JG crew. His artwork is in a number of their products and JG's Pegasus magazine.

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#11
October 30, 2014, 03:07:37 AM
Oh, Paizo do 64-page city books - I have Korvosa, Magnimar & Kaer Maga. Kaer Maga is the weirdest and probably best.
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#12
October 30, 2014, 08:39:52 AM
Cities by Midkemia Press for its endless amount of fun urban adventure hooks.

ZWEIHÄNDER

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October 30, 2014, 09:40:21 AM Last Edit: October 30, 2014, 10:11:10 AM by ZWEIHÄNDER
Dark Streets, by Cakebread and Walton, is the tits. It's basically Georgian London with Cthulhu worshippers on the loose. It tells the tale of the Bow Street Runners, the world's first organized police force, in the wake of the Gin Craze.

It's brilliant. It even received a glowing review by the Pundit: http://therpgpundit.blogspot.com/2013/10/rpgpundit-reviews-dark-streets.html
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Omega

#14
October 30, 2014, 10:02:55 AM
Flying Buffalos Citybook series. Still in print even.

Dragon Magazine had some city generation articles way back. Pinning them down may be a hassle.
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