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Best Urban Fantasy Adventure ever?

Started by RPGPundit, December 22, 2008, 01:03:46 AM

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Drew

#15
December 23, 2008, 07:59:04 AM
Quote from: One Horse Town;275024I'll go with Power Behind the Throne for WFRP.

Yes.

I still have huge affection for B6: The Veiled Society. In my experience it works far better as a WFRP scenario set in Tilea than D&D and Specularum.
 

Spazmodeus

#16
December 23, 2008, 08:47:07 AM
For actual adventures, I'd say a tie between City of Skulls and Vault of the Drow.  Both put the players in a strange city where they don't know the rules of the society and have to carefully plan every move to avoid disaster.  They never know what kind of strange creatures they will run into or freaky locations they will be forced to explore.

On the subject of city settings that can spawn great adventures, I like the City of Greyhawk box set and The City of Delights from Al-Qadim.  Both detail their cities well, with lots of interesting locations, power groups, NPCs, and plot hooks.
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December 23, 2008, 09:56:19 AM
Quote from: KenHR;275173For me, it's not really an adventure, but a setting.  I really like the AD&D versions of Lankhmar.  Not so much for the system bits, but the wealth of detail you had available to you made running off-the-cuff adventures in the city itself a breeze.  Even the non-Leiber NPCs were fun.  Pity they never finished the gazzetteer books detailing the individual city sections.

I thought the original book was enough, especially with the simple but clever system they had for letting the DM customize the city so every version had to be different. I thought the later gazetteers were lackluster. So my favorite open-ended urban adventure would be the original AD&D version of Lankhmar.

Another one I like a lot is Bluffside. Again, not an adventure per se, but contains a lot of stuff just waiting for adventurers.
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David R

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December 23, 2008, 10:11:35 AM Last Edit: December 23, 2008, 10:21:28 AM by David R
Quote from: StormBringer;275274I thought he was talking about Karl Urban.

Urban fantasy....adventure....

Okay my pick, since Power Behind the Throne has already been mentioned is a Ravenloft adventure (1994) called Hours of the Knife.

Edit: Wait....Shadows Over Bogenhafen. Gideon was one bad mofo.

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KenHR

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December 23, 2008, 10:57:26 AM
Quote from: Spazmodeus;275333Vault of the Drow.

Good one!  I hadn't even thought of it.  A great DM could make that one shine.  (Unfortunately, that great DM wasn't me or anyone who ran it while I was playing....)
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The Shaman

#20
December 23, 2008, 12:02:20 PM
Quote from: Spazmodeus;275333For actual adventures, I'd say a tie between City of Skulls and Vault of the Drow.
Vault of the Drow is my favorite as well. While not strictly an urban adventure, Erelhei-Cinlu is just a fantastic city to play with. I'd been reading about Renaissance Italy city-states at the time I ran Vault . . . so I was primed for the intrigues between the various noble houses and their merchant clients. Great fun as the players attempted to play one house against another while surviving in an environment where a demon walking down the street was literally an everyday occurence.

I would also add Chaosium's Thieves World boxed set - Sanctuary was another city that was a lot of fun to run.
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