{"id":225,"date":"2009-07-24T07:15:46","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T14:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/?p=225"},"modified":"2009-07-23T13:38:42","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T20:38:42","slug":"where-are-we-again-creating-unique-fantasy-cities-and-towns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/24\/where-are-we-again-creating-unique-fantasy-cities-and-towns\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Where are we again?&#8221;: Creating Unique Fantasy Cities and Towns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes creating a believable city or town is one of the hardest parts of building an adventure or campaign. You don&#8217;t want all your towns to look the same and you definitely don&#8217;t want to get stuck in the generic &#8220;fantasy town&#8221;, consisting of a tavern\/bar, inn or other lodgings, magic shoppe, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Below I&#8217;ve gathered a list of web resources to help provide city building know-how and inspiration. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.overseer3d.com\/v2\/co3d\/index.htm\">City Overseer 3D<\/a>. Software to help you build cities for your game. I haven&#8217;t tried it, yet. If anyone else has, I&#8217;d love it if you wrote a review for me. If it&#8217;s well-written, I&#8217;ll even publish it here!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/limyaael.livejournal.com\/396763.html\">City Rant Part One<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/limyaael.livejournal.com\/397473.html\">City Rant Part Two<\/a>. Some great ideas for city building basics, including details usually overlooked, like what are the conditions of animals in the city and using sound to describe your city.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catalystmedia.org.uk\/issues\/nerve14\/fantasy_city.php\">Culture and Curfew in Fantasy City<\/a>. More an article on the darker side of Liverpool, London. But it does ask questions and bring up points useful for adapting to a fantasy or SF city.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/forums.gleemax.com\/showthread.php?t=255194\">Fantasy Cities &#8211; Wizards Community<\/a>. A forum board with some great advice and example of building fantasy cities.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.rpg.net\/index.php\/Fantasy_City_Project:Main_Page\">Fantasy City Project<\/a>. A collaborative fantasy city being built on-line and you can join in.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wareseeker.com\/free-fantasy-city-generator\/\">Free fantasy city generator downloads<\/a>. A download site for free software designed to help you create a city. I have no idea of the quality of safety of this software. Use at your own risk.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therpgsite.com\/showthread.php?t=8165\">How to make the &#8220;shantytown&#8221; in your city REALLY gritty\/scary<\/a>. A forum discussion about ways to &#8220;dirty up&#8221; your city.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ehow.com\/how_2270475_plan-country-region-fantasy-rpg.html\">How to Plan a Country or Region in a Fantasy RPG World<\/a>. While not focused on city creation itself, this article does give some step-by-step advice on creating RPG settings that could easily be applied to cities.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theharrow.com\/rpg\/campaigncity.html\">How to Start a Campaign: City Building<\/a> (The Harrow: The RPG Collection). Some good ideas for setting up the basics of a new city.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sharedworlds.wofford.edu\/top5.aspx\">Shared World&#8217;s Top Five Real Fantasy\/SF Cities<\/a>. Fantasy and SF authors pick real-world cities that would make great locations for stories.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mythmere.tripod.com\/cities.html#AlternateCityGen\">Welcome to the Page of City Resources<\/a>. A list of links useful for creating fantasy cities<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/answers.yahoo.com\/question\/index?qid=20081025104830AArGCs7\">What might help me create the history of a fantasy city-state?<\/a> A question posed to Yahoo! Answers. The reply brings up some good points to consider when creating your city.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some listing of world-building sites who&#8217;s information can be adapted for city creation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.web-writer.net\/fantasy\/days\/index.html\">30 Days of WorldBuilding<\/a>. A step-by-step guide to creating a fantasy world<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saradouglass.com\/createw.html\">Creating the Fantasy World<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfwa.org\/writing\/worldbuilding1.htm\">Fantasy Worldbuilding Questions Part 1<\/a>. A listo f questions to answer as you&#8217;re creating your fantasy setting.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oneofus.co.uk\/index.php\/how_to\/how_to_create_fantasy_worlds\/\">How to Create Fantasy Worlds<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.web-writer.net\/fantasy\/\">Magical World Builder<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Related Posts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/01\/location-worksheet\/\">Location Worksheet<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/category\/meadowbrook\/\">Meadowbrook<\/a>. Details of an example fantasy city<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes creating a believable city or town is one of the hardest parts of building an adventure or campaign. You don&#8217;t want all your towns to look the same and you definitely don&#8217;t want to get stuck in the generic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/24\/where-are-we-again-creating-unique-fantasy-cities-and-towns\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,24],"tags":[221,23,18,25,27],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-creation","category-worldbuilding","tag-campaign-creation","tag-cities","tag-gm-tools","tag-towns","tag-world-building"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}