Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Cityscape review

I had a chance to peruse Cityscape relatively well and here is my take on it.

The Good:
It has a pretty fair amount of information but doesn't go overboard with minuscule details. It has several city types (military, port, slaver, trading hub, etc.) detailed to the point that they can be incorporated into a campaign relatively easily but there is still plenty of room for customization. I like the description of the various city districts and a plot hook or two is listed in each. The section discussing guilds, houses and organizations is also well done. No new races where in this book.

The Bad:
It would be nice for newer players and game masters if this had a little more detail on how to actually build a city from the ground (or sewers) up. The worst thing about his book, IMHO, is that if you don't do a fair amount of city based adventuring or if you have a well established city you use, this book is about 50% to 75% useless to you.

Overall:
I like the balance between detail and being able to personalize the information about the cities described. If you like city adventuring this is probably worth while but if your group is more into wilderness/dungeon crawls you could probably passed it up.

Let us know what's your opinion of this book.

1 Comments:

Blogger Oz said...

It's a shame I have an established town. I'm kind of surprised they didn't do a "sewers up" as you suggested.

At least they didn't just stick races in there for the sake of having new races.

Wed Nov 29, 07:21:00 PM 2006  

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