Hey all,
After a casual flip through this book at a F(Not So)LGS, I'm really curious as to utility of this book as a general city sourcebook. I've looked around but aside from two posts on this forum, I haven't seen ANYTHING about Cities. Granted, it's pretty new. City sourcebooks are a weakness of mine. One of my cherished resources is a copy of Runequest Cities, and in the 20 years I've owned it, I've never found its equal (and I've looked!). So if you own and have read/used Cities, maybe you could throw some comments on it my way.
I do have some specific questions:
The book seems to be built around a series of random tables to generate city details (ala Ruins of Hyboria). Are all of these tables collected in one spot at the end of the book, or does the user have to wade through the whole thing to hit all the tables?
Despite being branded for Conan, how effective are the city generators for other sub-genres of fantasy? My tastes lean heavily in the S&S direction, but its always nice to find inspiration for more medium levels of fantasy as well (say, World of Greyhawk level fantasy).
I'm a big fan of Pinnacle's Savage World of Solomon Kane. How much tweaking would be required to using Cities in a slightly more modern (17th century) setting with a S&S bent?
Thanks,
Tom
After a casual flip through this book at a F(Not So)LGS, I'm really curious as to utility of this book as a general city sourcebook. I've looked around but aside from two posts on this forum, I haven't seen ANYTHING about Cities. Granted, it's pretty new. City sourcebooks are a weakness of mine. One of my cherished resources is a copy of Runequest Cities, and in the 20 years I've owned it, I've never found its equal (and I've looked!). So if you own and have read/used Cities, maybe you could throw some comments on it my way.
I do have some specific questions:
The book seems to be built around a series of random tables to generate city details (ala Ruins of Hyboria). Are all of these tables collected in one spot at the end of the book, or does the user have to wade through the whole thing to hit all the tables?
Despite being branded for Conan, how effective are the city generators for other sub-genres of fantasy? My tastes lean heavily in the S&S direction, but its always nice to find inspiration for more medium levels of fantasy as well (say, World of Greyhawk level fantasy).
I'm a big fan of Pinnacle's Savage World of Solomon Kane. How much tweaking would be required to using Cities in a slightly more modern (17th century) setting with a S&S bent?
Thanks,
Tom