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Does anyone have a recommendation for a product that gives me maps of a city as well as descriptions of the buildings and such?
Does the Lankhmar product by Goodman Games provide that?
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DivineWannabe wrote: Mon Mar 02, 2020 9:35 pm Does anyone have a recommendation for a product that gives me maps of a city as well as descriptions of the buildings and such?
Does the Lankhmar product by Goodman Games provide that?
Lankhmar has a fantastic map by Mr. Doug Kovacs.
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Volume 1 of Metal Gods of Ur-Hadad (available for free on drivethrurpg) has a very detailed random neighborhood generator including geography, buildings, NPCs, gangs, and factions. I have always wanted to try it out or see a good game report of how it went because it seems like a ton of fun.
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Yeah, the Lankhmar map is fantastic. But details on specific buildings are left to the Judge. In the "Lankhmar: City Of the Black Toga" supplement there are descriptions of notable locations in each of the city's quarters, and there are a variety of tables for generating "unique neighbourhoods" (including buildings). There is no list of buildings relating to the map, though.
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Cities of Harn, by Columbia Games. It's a gritty, low-fantasy setting, but their cities and denizens are well fleshed out. You will need to up the weirdness a bit to make it mesh with DCC...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities_of_Hârn
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If you can track it down, Yiggsburg by Troll Lord Games is probably the most detailed city book I've ever seen. It was also Gary Gygax's last project so it's a pretty cool piece of history.

Unfortunately, after Gary passed away the licence for it went into limbo, and it only ever saw a single print run so while you can get it on Ebay... expect to pay collectors prices.
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imperialus wrote: Wed May 06, 2020 5:16 am If you can track it down, Yiggsburg by Troll Lord Games is probably the most detailed city book I've ever seen. It was also Gary Gygax's last project so it's a pretty cool piece of history.

Unfortunately, after Gary passed away the licence for it went into limbo, and it only ever saw a single print run so while you can get it on Ebay... expect to pay collectors prices.
I agree, it's quite a tome. I am extremely lucky to have two copies, one signed by Darlene (who did the cartography!)
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Maybe this goes without saying but... City-State of the Invincible Overlord is the go-to detailed city that hasn't been bested since 1979. I used it in my recent DCC campaign and could do so in a hundred others.
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Maybe Bards Gate by Frog God Games the Swords & Wizardry version? Or the City of Greyhawk boxed set for AD&D 2e?
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Ok, so it's not a city and might not suit your needs but I find that "Doom of the Savage Kings" has a pretty good town map. It's small but in a way it captures the essence of DCC RPG:

"Most everyday peasants in a medieval setting never travel more than a few miles from their places of birth. Their lives are circumscribed by local terrain boundaries: a river to the east, the hills to the north, the village one town over to the south. In a game that accurately attempts to capture the medieval adventuring experience—or, phrased differently, in a game that retains the spirit of Appendix N—you do not need a vast space for adventuring. An area of land only 100 miles square should provide years of adventure, for it is a space larger than most living men will ever explore."

(p. 307 of DCC rulebook)

I use it as my base town and just keep adding NPCs or developing the ones they already met.
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City State of the Invincible Overlord? I haven't read through it in a while, and I may be wrong, but I think it had a decent number of detailed buildings and such.
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