Pelgrane press, profantasy softwares sister company makes tabletop rpgs, and as such has a burning need for cartographic resources, so of course we take advant the dragon empire in th age farsight blogger. Towns of the outlands midkemia press a letter from gigi by gigi darn. Cities of the wilderlands and good standins page 2. Each product is delivered as a custommized pdf and each city product is zipped with its associated maps. Thursday, february 6th, 2014 posted by john oneill.
Generic 1986 the city of freeport green ronin publishing. Midkemia, the world upon which riftwar is based, originated as a paperbased roleplaying game with its own system, world, and adventures. Theres no dearth of good city books in the roleplaying field. The chaosium was founded by visionary game designer greg stafford in 1975.
It is simply a labor of love and has been a useful tool as i have explored the world of r. Cities, is a sourcebook for running citybased adventures. Other old school cities kevin straight says the sections from thieves world you describe starting with also of interest is this quote. Cities and other polities are just places to refresh and sell loot before going. Prince of the blood, the two computer games, and the map seen as a background image at the midkemia press web site. Chaosium published a third edition in 1986 titled cities. Cities midkemia press rq borderlands chaosium metal marvels. Here you will find information on the world of midkemia, rays books, where midkemia press is going and the new chronicles of midkemia, that came out november 5th from harper collins. The first two are self explanatory but what is city catchup. June 3, 2014 of a city that was more than a place just to get supplies, but an adventure in its own right. Two editions of the book were published by midkemia press, in 1979 and 1983. Is there anything else like the tome of adventure design.
Incorrect book the list contains an incorrect book please specify the title of the book. I still reference it and expeditious retreat presss magical medieval society book. Spam or selfpromotional the list is spam or selfpromotional. Skullport details an underground city bringing a new definition to the word suburban. Towns of the outlands is designed to be used in conjunction with other midkemia press playing aids, but can be utilized with any game system. It was a delightful book of plot hooks for urban adventures, spread across numerous random encounter tables that designated who players met based on their location within a city. Inappropriate the list including its title or description facilitates illegal activity, or contains hate speech or ad hominem attacks on a fellow goodreads member or author.
Considering its brevity, ive squeezed considerable mileage out of maze rats. Pdf version copyright this copy of cities was prepared. Midkemia press started publishing with cities 1979 a book that built on the groups biggest strength. This copy of cities was prepared especially for on 122614 page 7 of 39 last update. I thought tomorrow was obscure rpg appreciation day. Midkemia is a fictional world created by a fantasy roleplaying group and popularized by raymond e. Characters and monsters by tahr, demon lords by spartan miniatures by john t. Tsr would just a month later complete their trilogy of great cities of the 80s with fr1. For more than forty years, chaosium has captivated gamers, readers and mythic adventurers worldwide. Its a sometimes bizarre mix of comedy, stage magic instruction, and howtogm advice. Cities is a roleplaying supplement that is generic in nature that is, it is not designed for any specific roleplaying game system. Micro cities 8 one of the initial decisions to be made when building a micro city is a desired location. One issue is how much more information is required in keying cities as opposed to a dungeon or even the wilderness which both tend to be semiclosed systems with limited dynamics.
This work is not intended to be the definitve map of midkemia. Theres not a lot to it, though, but with some filling in, it could be cool. The chronicles of pug book has a bunch of illustrations and maps, theres more reference in the empire trilogy to numbers of populations, but if you read the whole bibliography theres a bunch of references dotted about cant imagine anyone has a detailed list. In fact, over twelve pages, two introduce the game and deal with chargen and the rest is pretty much committed to generating the. It throughly covers just about all types of city encounters. Shop at noble knight games for fantasy supplements midkemia press by part of our full inventory collection. Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else. Dont miss towns of the outlands from midkemia press, published in 1981. Cities publishes articles on many aspects of urban planning and policy. Those are available in pdf on the midkemia site and drivethrough respectively.
Old school inspiration steven says im enjoying this series. What single tabletop rpg supplement have you found most. The cities book i found most useful was midkemia presss cities book. Having trudged down the path of building all these rules up into a playable game, jon everson and steve abrams decided that they might as well start a company and produce gaming products.
Midkemia press cities also lands into this category, although most of their other city books would be adventures or supplements. On the player tools front, the only example that really jumps out to me is for coc, with the s. A website and forum for enthusiasts of fantasy maps mapmaking and cartography of all types. Wow, they were converting their products over to digital i. More information edit history more information can be found at. Medkemia press is best known for their cities supplement and for having raymond feist designing stuff before he before became a big name author. It distinguishes itself by providing an international and interdisciplinary platform for the exchange of ideas and information among urban planners, policy makers and analysts, and urbanists from all disciplines. Arc midcities is expanding its fleet with clean vehicles which increase comfort and decrease commute times. We are the originators along with ray feist of the world of midkemia. Second, heard includes much more crunch than was present in the previous gaz books, making it more immediately practical for gms. Not only does it include encounter tables but it includes a system for populating cities and villages. We are a thriving community of fantasy map makers that provide tutorials, references, and resources for fellow mapmakers. Feist, and where most of his riftwar books take place. Thus the home town or city is not just a place to resupply after dungeondelving, but an adventure in itself.
This was high praise given the work of judges guild and midkemia press in the field. Books vary from 4mb up to 10mb and multiple orders are each sent in a separate email. Mor aldenn is nice in that it has towers for each school of magic. Petersons guides to creatures and creatures of the dreamlands books. From the sunken lands to the feral shore a couple of weeks ago i had the great fortune of scoring an affordable copy of a holy grail product i have been patiently searching for a good long while now. In his 2011 ted talk, romer suggests that, the laws and rules of any city have to be made to attract people into the city. In addition to other gaming products, the universe developed by feist and his friends has since been used as the basis for the creation of two video games. Is there a random encounter generator online, for color.
I got cities when midkemia press when it was first released as a pdf a couple of years back. A micro city operates under a unique set of laws that is fitting to. Triagia, the world of midkemia, from the riftwar books by. The booklet describes six fleshed out towns that you can drop into any frp setting. A tale of two cities them to a stand, with a wary woho. Gaz3 the principalities of glantri basic wizards of. Midkemia press was started by a group of friends in 1977 in san diego. Midkemia press whose authors included stephen abrams and an young aspiring novelist named raymond e. Some of the earliest supplements in the industry focused on cities, such as judges guilds city state map 1976 and midkemia presss cities 1979. But honestly if the pdf consists pages that are just images, you should extract them in photoshop, and reduce the. In his brilliant novel invisible cities pdf copy here. Books vary from 4mb up to 10mb and multiple orders are each sent in a. Revision of the midkemia press cities second edition with additional editing and reformatting.
Having said that we can now proudly offer an adobe acrobat version. Only the empire trilogy, which was cowritten with janny wurts, takes place entirely on kelewan, another world connected to midkemia by magically created rifts in space. This served as one of a number of ah runequest supplements in their gateway series, intended to broaden the rq system beyond the glorantha setting. Edit im looking to start making prints of some maps and this is one of the more popular ones i can see why, as its a nice. And i was surprised to see midkemia press still in existence. Towns of the outlands is part of the first midkemian campaign, which also includes the city of. In the process, we also lower our carbon footprint and substantially save on fuel, which benefits all of our stateholders in the longrun. Six new classes for traveller by paul montgomery crabaugh. The fourth edition of the cities supplement from midkemia press was brought into the avalon hillchaosium runequest series as a generic sourcebook. Whenever the leader made this rattle, the passenger started, as a nervous passenger might, and was disturbed in mind. City adventures run as much or more on navigating humanity and information as they do on site exploration. Feist published an exceptional line of urban settings. As such cities by midkemia press and later chaosium with its massive array of city encounter charts is a huge inspiration for its breadth and depth covering everything from a table of accidental jostlings of and by npcs to a subtable for the rare appearance of gods. For population density, that play aid suggests about 68 people per building for an european feel, or 810 for a middle eastern feel, or 1015 for a far eastern feel.