Quote from: SionEwig;829507I think that The City State of the Invincible Ovelord by Judge's Guild should be allowed to count due to it being the first mass published.

It official, it says that right there on the cover.

"Created and approved for use with Dungeons & Dragons".

http://www.acaeum.com/jg/ModPhotos/0062CSIORevised1st.jpg

Quote from: estar;829523It official, it says that right there on the cover.

"Created and approved for use with Dungeons & Dragons".

http://www.acaeum.com/jg/ModPhotos/0062CSIORevised1st.jpg

How very Perry Mason.

Honestly never heard of almost any of those cities aside from ol' Invincible and Specularum. Never bought supplements and settings when I played D&D.

union is nice to

Quote from: Weru;829400Specularum from the Grand Duchy of Karameikos. No map, about a paragraph write up in the back of the Cook/Marsh Expert rulebook. That's the only official D&D setting city I've ran games in. Never ran, played in, read, or even seen any of the others.

They expanded on this a lot with the Veiled Society adventure and Grand Duchy of Karameikos gazeterr and later the excellent boxed set, although by that time Karameikos was a kingdom and Specularum renamed Mirros. One of my favorite cities as well.

Threshold comes a close second since it was probably the first city I actually ran people through.

Had a lot of fun with Lankhmar 1e as well. The city in Dragonlance that had the wizard's tower no one could get to (Palanthas?). Had some fun there as a player but never ran anyone through it.

Quote from: Shipyard Locked;829407Damn it tuypo1, spell checking, punctuation, capital letters, use them! We're not expecting perfection, everyone makes mistakes, but a minimum effort would allow us to take you more seriously.

Is there a reason you do this? Is English not your native language? Do you do all your forum posting from some tiny smartphone? Is this part of some covert research project into how people online respond to awful writing (hence your name)? Do you wear it like a badge of honor after constantly being insulted about it?

Dang, I've been away from the forum talk for awhile, but really? It's not like you're paying for his post. And then to suggest he has a learning disability when he says he honestly tries to do better?

To be fair i do have a learning disability and i may well take his advice on the sig.

Still cant comprehend why it bothers some people so much.

Quote from: tuypo1;829563To be fair i do have a learning disability and i may well take his advice on the sig.

Still cant comprehend why it bothers some people so much.

Because for some of us, it breaks up the lines of text, allowing us to pause and parse what we just read, then start again.  Otherwise it's a long single sentence and we don't know where it ends and another statement begins.

On topic:

I've loved Waterdeep ever since the 2e Underdark box set.

And Ebberon's Sharn, those two are my favourite cities in D&D land.

Specularum and Weresklaot  from BX D&D. Pretty much all of BX due to its near total blank slate nature.

Blackmoor from the time travel series of modules was probably one of my favorite actually fleshed out cities.

Quote from: Christopher Brady;829566Because for some of us, it breaks up the lines of text, allowing us to pause and parse what we just read, then start again.  Otherwise it's a long single sentence and we don't know where it ends and another statement begins.

i should clarify i know the reasons its just that outside of a few times when you need a , the need for it just seems utterly alien to me.

Quote from: pspahn;829559They expanded on this a lot with the Veiled Society adventure and Grand Duchy of Karameikos gazeterr and later the excellent boxed set, although by that time Karameikos was a kingdom and Specularum renamed Mirros. One of my favorite cities as well.

I'm not if they came out after I'd stopped playing D&D (87) or if they weren't widely released in the UK while I was, but I never saw any of the Gaz stuff.

Quote from: pspahn;829560Dang, I've been away from the forum talk for awhile, but really? It's not like you're paying for his post. And then to suggest he has a learning disability when he says he honestly tries to do better?

See, I actually do try to read his posts, unlike a lot of people here who skip or block him. If I used "bad behavior" as a criterion for dismissing posters I would miss a lot of valuable insight.

Learning disability is actually the most charitable interpretation because that wouldn't be his fault. The alternatives are that he's a troll or the textual equivalent of those overweight weirdos who dismiss social conventions, never bathe, and roam the convention halls making everyone feel awkward.

So don't make me out to be a villain here. If it's a problem he can actually solve then I'm doing him a favor by pointing it out instead of ignoring him. Or perhaps it's my tone you object to, in which case:

"Pretty please with sugar on top tuypo1, fix your writing if you can so others can read you more easily and not be inclined to ignore what you have to contribute."

Quote from: Shipyard Locked;829599See, I actually do try to read his posts, unlike a lot of people here who skip or block him. If I used "bad behavior" as a criterion for dismissing posters I would miss a lot of valuable insight.

Learning disability is actually the most charitable interpretation because that wouldn't be his fault. The alternatives are that he's a troll or the textual equivalent of those overweight weirdos who dismiss social conventions, never bathe, and roam the convention halls making everyone feel awkward.

So don't make me out to be a villain here. If it's a problem he can actually solve then I'm doing him a favor by pointing it out instead of ignoring him. Or perhaps it's my tone you object to, in which case:

"Pretty please with sugar on top tuypo1, fix your writing if you can so others can read you more easily and not be inclined to ignore what you have to contribute."

Not the tone, just can't stand grammar police. This is a forum for discussion. I look at it like this, if we were in a room full of people and someone was stuttering or their voice was grating on my nerves and I couldn't handle it, I'd either  ignore it or just find a way to excuse myself from any conversations with that person. Or if it was something they weren't aware of, I would pull that person to the side and politely make him aware.

Online I guess it's OK to call people out because the way they write is so offensive to our eyes that we can't bear to look away or skip reading their post. And let's do it publicly instead of in a PM because this is theRPGsite dang it and we don't hold nuthin' back 'round heah.

I'm not defending bad writing, but again, it's not like anyone's paying him to write well. That would be a different story.  

To each his own, I guess, but maybe next time you should write in red text and be a little more threatening.

Quote from: pspahn;829605... And let's do it publicly instead of in a PM...

To each his own, I guess, but maybe next time you should write in red text and be a little more threatening.

Ouch. Well when you make that comparison I'd rather desist. Fine, I'm apologizing and dropping the matter.

Quote from: pspahn;829605Not the tone, just can't stand grammar police. This is a forum for discussion. I look at it like this, if we were in a room full of people and someone was stuttering or their voice was grating on my nerves and I couldn't handle it, I'd either  ignore it or just find a way to excuse myself from any conversations with that person. Or if it was something they weren't aware of, I would pull that person to the side and politely make him aware.

Online I guess it's OK to call people out because the way they write is so offensive to our eyes that we can't bear to look away or skip reading their post. And let's do it publicly instead of in a PM because this is theRPGsite dang it and we don't hold nuthin' back 'round heah.

I'm not defending bad writing, but again, it's not like anyone's paying him to write well. That would be a different story.  

To each his own, I guess, but maybe next time you should write in red text and be a little more threatening.

you raise some valid points but honestly i would be pretty offended by people thinking they need to take it to pms

Quote from: tuypo1;829609you raise some valid points but honestly i would be pretty offended by people thinking they need to take it to pms

Tuypo 1 it ain't even about you, it's about common courtesy, and having said that I probably should have taken my own advice and PMd Shipyard Locked rather than get belligerent with someone I don't even know on a public forum. Especially since he was gracious enough to come back with a mature response and now I feel like a dick. But that's what happens when you haven't slept and you read something in the middle of the night that rubs you the wrong way...