Skip to main content

City Builder - A Guide to Designing Communities (4th Printing, POD, Standard Color)

By: Skirmisher Publishing

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: Fantasy Supplements (Skirmisher Publishing) (d20)

MSRP old price: $49.75


Product Info

Title
City Builder - A Guide to Designing Communities (4th Printing, POD, Standard Color)
Author
Michael O. Varhola, Clint Staples, Octavius Knorr
Publish Year
2022
Pages
240
Dimensions
8.5x11x1"
NKG Part #
2148079312
Type
Hardcover

Description

City Builder: A Guide to Designing Communities is a writer's resource specifically designed to help storytellers create exciting and compelling urban areas and other sorts of communities and places within them. It is a universal sourcebook that can support the needs of any ancient, Dark Ages, Middle Ages, Renaissance, or fantasy fiction or role-playing game setting.

This comprehensive, fully-illustrated book includes:

  • An Introduction that describes the scope of the book and how to use the material it contains;
  • A chapter on Communities that examines the Characteristics of Communities, including thorps, hamlets, villages, towns, cities, military bases, and plantations, along with regional and racial influences on their development; Buildings; the Physical Characteristics of Cities, including fortifications, lighting, and conditions on, above, and below city streets; and Disasters.
  • Chapters devoted to 10 specific sorts of places, including Craftsman Places, Entertainment Places, Professional Places (with a sidebar on Guilds that discusses organization and regulations and includes tables for random guild generation), Tradesman Places, Mercantile Places, Service Places, Scholarly Places, Religious Places, Governmental Places, and Underworld Places.
  • Descriptions of 85 different sorts of places, including eight created specifically for this book that have never before appeared elsewhere
  • Two to three Adventure Hooks tying in with each described sort of place.

    The contents of City Builder were initially released in 11 different volumes and these have been combined and expanded in this unified edition of the book.