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Stand Alone Locations Quest
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Stand Alone Locations Quest
#1XP Bonuses for responses to this thread!!!!
Stand Alone Locations Quest
We are currently looking for Citadel posted Location descriptions of Cities, Towns, and/or businesses inside them that can stand on their own. We are compiling submissions to use in our first ever ebook and are excited to see your favorites. (We may need some NPCs as well so if you see good ones that can be used with the locations, add that too.)
The specific requirement for the location is that you can take it and plop it into almost *any* currently running game. It can have unique features and specific requirements but the submission needs to be entirely self contained. Basically like a random encounter. I can have my players traveling, roll a die, and that location can be plopped into my setting. Once there you can do any number of things and hooks are essential to be used with it, but when they leave that area, they should be able to leave it without having to adapt their current storyline too far.
Please reply with the
Title
Author
Link
Summary
in this thread.
XP will be awarded on usefulness, uniqueness and quality of the find.
I will edit each submission and award the XP inside each post vs. replying. -
Re: Stand Alone Locations Quest
#2Land of the Living by Agar
http://strolen.com/viewing/The_Land_of_the_Living
There lies a valley, far to the west, on the shores of The Great Northern Sea, that has a mist that is both blessing and curse. All those that breath the mist heal with remarkable speed, so fast that only the mightiest blow or the truest strike can fell the smallest beast. The warriors who settled this land became soilders of great renown, for not only were they impenetrable defenders, they were warriors whose aim and might were unsurpassed. -
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#3100 Unique Town/City Properties by Redgre
http://strolen.com/viewing/100_Unique_TownCity_Properties
A table of possible backgrounds, qualities, or features of a fantasy town or city. A world building tool for getting attention to the details. -
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#4City Image by MoonHunter
http://strolen.com/viewing/City_Image
An incredible list of cities in wonderful detail.
Perhaps a bit too big for what you are looking at, and it is not all packaged in one sub, but still... quite an epic.
If you take some of the 4.5s to 5.0s from that sub you got some juicy material. -
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#5Establishments by MoonHunter
http://strolen.com/viewing/Establishments
Shops, taverns, the like. I really liked some of those establishments, particularly some of Scrasamaxes making, as well as some of Muros. -
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#6To toot my own horn:
The Rotten Bastard
By Valadaar
http://strolen.com/viewing/The_Rotten_Bastard
Wretched Dive where all manner of mayhem can start.
Need to strip out some of the game-world specifics perhaps. -
Re: Stand Alone Locations Quest
#7Tooting your own horn is entirely valid valadaar. ;)
Whooo, that kinda rhymed. -
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#8Excellent!
And nice toot. -
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#91. Neighborhoods by MoonHunter
http://strolen.com/viewing/Neighborhoods
Summary:
A Codex of distinct parts of towns that could be easily adapted across different settings
2. Redpools by : DrTurtlesse
http://strolen.com/viewing/Redpools
Summary: A port city with unique qualities providing ready made plot hooks
3. Malver's Way by Wulfhere , Siren no Orakio, Pieh, Chaosmark, Murometz, valadaar
http://strolen.com/viewing/Malvers_Way
Summary:
A neighbourhood combining more 'pretentious' businesses and the common or even "unsavoury" -
Re: Stand Alone Locations Quest
#10Good set!!! -
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#11http://strolen.com/viewing/Hahvrensburg --Scrasamax
Great detail, yet perfectly generic!
http://strolen.com/viewing/Silver_Oak --Silveressa
Great detail, yet perfectly generic!
http://strolen.com/viewing/Silt_Sea --Kassil
Bizarre place, yet easy to use! And as manfred said, great place for a Spirit Journey!
(In fact, let me add, that I think this could be a really cool first ebook! Welcome to the Silt Sea! Watch your step. Are you here on holiday? Spirit Journey? Accidental trans-dimensional portal misstep? Cursed Geas? Searching for something? Well, no matter, you are here now. Let me be your guide, etc, etc...add npcs/hooks) -
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#12Hurray. Keep them coming!!! -
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#13Madison
This city is built of wood from the forests round about, and whilst the winters and springs are wet and rainy the summers and autumns are often hot and dry. As a result, despite an efficient Fire Department, fires are a big problem and over the centuries, there have been at least three major fires that have burnt large parts of the city down. Despite repeated Mayors Orders to stop building with wood and thatch, these orders are widely disregarded by the vast majority of the citys residents.
Recently one of the Small Town Festivals, a holiday celebrating victory in a battle centuries ago, has been banned despite widespread opposition by those determined to celebrate come what may. The problem is that it involves widespread use of firecrackers and other fireworks and with the summer as dry as it is, there is a great worry that the entire city risks going up in flames. The underworld of the city, because of the money they can get, have started a black market in fireworks which the City Marshals are trying their hardest to clamp down on. The PCs might either be trying to organize an illegal fireworks display or be trying to clamp down on it.