Every city (or town or village) expresses its personality (or the cultural personality of its people) and its identity through its buildings, roads, and other pieces of engineering. They are permanent expressions of the local culture.
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Every city (or town or village) expresses its personality (or the cultural personality of its people) and its identity through its buildings, roads, and other pieces of engineering.
You can tell a lot about the city by looking around and seeing what is there. A GM can use these bits of description to help set the mood of the place you are adventuring in. This thread lists the various ways the city/ towns looks and perhaps why it looks that way.
All pieces for this scroll need to be labeled "City Images"
The City's descriptions should be about the buildings, walls, roads, and how the city looks. Interwoven with that should be hints about the culture and society here. These are not your normal write ups telling us everything. In these posts, you have to show, not tell.
Note: If the given city does not have buildings, roads, and other pieces of engineering, like an Elven Tree City or a Mycorn underground city, they have things similar to them that serve similar functions. Post those here as well.
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Better organized, but it not like the others. It tells rather than shows. However, it does it really well.
Darn You. Now you are going to do another 50 posts that I am going to have to read. Should I just read them in the forum or wait? (Hmmm the old 'Hard Back vs Paperback' or 'read it now or wait for the movie', kind of question).
This was my favourite Idea Scroll thread. It still is.
This is a writing challange. Anyone currently up to it?
I wrote this in the thread when I was having issues coming out with a post.... It was not working out. I have actually deleted the partial posting twice.
We now join the post in progress.
So why don't any of you post one. This is not a "history of the city"/ everything you need to know kind of post. This thread is for descriptions of the city's buildings and key features. You would be suprised on how much about a city you can learn by just hearing the buildings and key features described.
Most of you have thought up one city for your world. So Do it.
So close your eyes take a deep breath
Visualize the front gate...
Visualize what it looks like when you go through....
What is next? ... describe the city's appearance... sounds... smells... textures..
What do the people look like and what are they doing?
Move through the city and keep describing what you see.
After you have been a tourist in your own city... This what you should be telling your players as they walk through the city.
Once you are finished... come back here and write your own City Image or discuss all the neighborhoods in your own city in the Neighborhoods thread.
It is so darn easy.
If you need help with the vocabulary... how to describe what you see... do some google searches for architectural terms or historical architecture or some combinations of the above. Or you can find a writen description of a real city like your city (or one done by an author of a fictional city) and use that as the basis for your post.
good
I've been meaning to do one of these for a long time. It's really a great template: simple, straight-forward, effective. Our city submissions are better off for having this model.
I absolutely love these short subs. Definitely planning on adding to this eventually.
This is an excellent codex.
An excellent, simple idea that spawned an era. I will soon join it.