A city the players can push against, without forty pages of lore. Roll a handful of dice and get a named, mapped and governed settlement, then fill it with taverns, guilds, temples and trouble.
System-neutral · 58 pages · PDF and softcover on DriveThruRPG · no AI
Most campaigns treat the town as a shop and a bed. The City treats it as a place where things happen while the party is busy elsewhere.
Every table answers a question you would otherwise have to make up on the spot. Who runs the tavern, what is on the menu tonight, which guild is hiring, what the shopkeeper hides behind the counter, and what happens in the alley after dark.
Michael Sollien built it as a companion to the West Marches and Hexcrawl series, so the town the players return to has as much life as the wilderness they leave for.
The opening chapter turns dice into a settlement. The book walks through a worked example, a forest village called Kingsfall, from the first roll to the finished map.
Michael Sollien of Seidmann Games designed and wrote the book, with additional writing by Nicolai Strøm. Karl Otto Kristoffersen and Simen Strandberg Andresen edited it, and KR1 Publishing published it together with Seidmann Games.
Every illustration is drawn by Nicolai Strøm of House of Adelsten. The Gaming Gang covered the release.
Made by people. There is no AI in the text, art, layout or editing.
Reviewers run through the generator and the tables, and ask if it saves prep for Shadowdark, OSR, 5e and Pathfinder 2e.
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Any fantasy RPG. The book is a set of roll tables and procedures with no stat blocks, so it works with Shadowdark, OSR games, 5e, Pathfinder 2e or whatever you already run.
No. The generator starts by rolling the type of settlement, so the same tables give you a forest village, a market town or a walled city.
It was built as a companion to both. West Marches needs a home base the players return to, and a hexcrawl needs towns along the way. The City stands on its own as well.
Yes. It is a 58-page softcover, print on demand from DriveThruRPG, and stocked by game shops in several countries. Shops can order at retailer terms on the vendor page.
No. The text, the art, the layout and the editing are all made by people. Every illustration is drawn by Nicolai Strøm.
The City is the first book in the Sandbox Toolkit series. More titles are planned.
