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OSR cities

Started by Larsdangly, November 09, 2015, 10:38:03 AM

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#30
November 25, 2015, 12:19:51 AM
Quote from: Kuroth;865588Sure, the London Bridge content is pretty nice alright. I know you don't care for doing supplements Pundit, but a city supplement in Vornheim's style for York or similar would be something I think you wouldn't get burned out doing.

Lenard Lakofka's Kroten content counts as ones of these.  It's available over at Dragonsfoot.

That's worth thinking about.  Right now though, I'm focused on Cults of Chaos, and after that there might just be another little surprise in store for Dark Albion...
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#31
November 25, 2015, 11:41:01 PM
Sounds like you are enjoying writing and probably playing out some new ideas, which is the important thing no matter what.
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#32
November 25, 2015, 11:55:42 PM
I like the city presented in Thieves' Guild of Ravenar, with its focus on the way power is oragnized in the city.  So, it is character focused, rather than map to describe the city.  It has a nice combination of power, personality and environment description.  It's in Footprints 20.

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#34
December 01, 2015, 09:18:07 PM
Bluffside city on the edge has a Castles and Crusades version as does Freeport. Its not exactly OSR but close enough and I found both to be pretty good.

A caution the Freeport book is also a rules add-on so its not all a "city" book

There is also Town of Kalas and Free City of Eskadia. I can't vouch for either though.

Dimitrios

#35
December 02, 2015, 10:44:38 AM
Quote from: 5 Stone Games;866582Bluffside city on the edge has a Castles and Crusades version as does Freeport. Its not exactly OSR but close enough and I found both to be pretty good.

A caution the Freeport book is also a rules add-on so its not all a "city" book

There are several versions of Freeport out there. I believe that the Pirate's Guide to Freeport is system neutral.

Bunch

#36
December 02, 2015, 11:15:05 AM
Quote from: ArrozConLeche;866580World's Largest City from Alderac Entertainment. I've seen their Ultimate Toolbox books, but never this. Reviews seem so-so.

http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/55632/Worlds-Largest-City

Avoid this.  It's a hacked together product and it shows.  It may have some useful bits but it is not a cohesive city.  The maps make it brutallyobvious that each section author had a pretty loose license to develop there section.  I liked the idea of WLD and WLC but WLC just didn't deliver.

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#37
December 02, 2015, 03:09:35 PM
Quote from: Dimitrios;866636There are several versions of Freeport out there. I believe that the Pirate's Guide to Freeport is system neutral.

You know what, you are right. Good catch.

Premier

#38
December 02, 2015, 03:34:27 PM
One city description I really like is Gabor Lux's Khosura: City-state of the Four Mysteries, published in issues 9 and 10 of Fight On! magazine. It's a thoroughly sword-and-sorcery place with dark cults, embalmers, corrupt guard captains and scheming nobles, all with strong Middle East vibes and a large (though not mega-) dungeon underneath it. Since it's published as two articles, it really emphasises brevity and concentrates on the stuff that's going to come up in actual play.
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#39
December 02, 2015, 05:15:28 PM
Quote from: P&P;864715The Yggsburgh situation is a real tragedy.  I still have unpublished manuscripts for that on my hard drive, which are now totally unpublishable because Gygax's estate hasn't paid the authors.  (Their non-payment has activated the delinquency clause in their agreement so the rights have reverted to the authors, who can do nothing with those rights because they're derivative works contingent on IP they don't control.)  
So they should do what we did at Gamelords when Howard Thompson folded TFT.  We had two whole citybooks for the Land Beyond The Mountains setting in galleys when it happened, and we just filed off the serial numbers, changed what was needful, and published.


Quote from: ArrozConLeche;864914I was browsing on the net and found this retrospective on Tarantis by Judges Guild:

http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2015/04/commentary-on-judges-guilds-tarantis.html

I looked at their website and they don't sell it there. It's on DTRPG though.
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#40
December 03, 2015, 12:46:50 AM
Quote from: Premier;866671One city description I really like is Gabor Lux's Khosura: City-state of the Four Mysteries, published in issues 9 and 10 of Fight On! magazine. It's a thoroughly sword-and-sorcery place with dark cults, embalmers, corrupt guard captains and scheming nobles, all with strong Middle East vibes and a large (though not mega-) dungeon underneath it. Since it's published as two articles, it really emphasises brevity and concentrates on the stuff that's going to come up in actual play.

This is one of the more interesting suggestions in the thread; thanks for that! I'll go check it out.

Larsdangly

#41
December 03, 2015, 12:48:41 AM
Quote from: Ravenswing;866687So they should do what we did at Gamelords when Howard Thompson folded TFT.  We had two whole citybooks for the Land Beyond The Mountains setting in galleys when it happened, and we just filed off the serial numbers, changed what was needful, and published.


I've got two copies of the JG Tarantis I'd be willing to part with; drop me a PM if you're interested.

Good suggestion. I have those books, by the way! Oh, TFT, why do the good have to die so young?

I wonder if they could get away with that approach in this case. The material would certainly be at least as good if reformatted for any of the other 100,000,000 OSR systems out there these days.
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