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>>43295634
Seriously, have a go cutting-and-pasting from the Orbus Terrarum. It's like a toolkit for building your own magical medieval cities.

http://historic-cities.huji.ac.il/mapmakers/braun_hogenberg.html

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 09:49:00 No.43295687 Report Delete

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>>43295549
Too much
Not enough
Never the right amount.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 09:51:18 No.43295706 Report Delete

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>>43295549

too much

back when I was in middle school I only got into d&d through simcity so I spend way too much time actually trying to lay out how all the cities in a given campaign look and operate

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 09:56:44 No.43295749 Report Delete

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>>43295549
Not enough, but in an online game where I feel it needs to look realistic or be random genned I just dont have the time or tools available...

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 09:56:54 No.43295750 Report Delete

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>>43295706
NERD!

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 09:59:09 No.43295761 Report Delete

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I take into account the cultural build of the city, then leave the rest to vague "districts".
Example: Im running an evil campaign set in a hextorian empire. Hextorians are lawful evil warlords. Cites are built with defense in mind before comfort, so either into mountains, or high walls with raised rings of walls the further you go into the city. Peasantry and soldiers on the outside ring, higher caste inside.

I feel giving TOO much detail can bog down games. Unless a player knows the city thoroughly, letting them use those once unknown skill checks can actually make people new to the city actually feel unfamiliar like they should, instead of just setting meta plans in their head, because cities dont hand out tourist maps regularly. You always get that one shit has player who treats it like a video game and wants to go down every lane.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 10:05:10 No.43295797 Report Delete

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London used to be so comfy.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 10:05:14 No.43295799 Report Delete

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>>43295549
not really urban planning, but I love to make little hamlets and villages.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 10:06:15 No.43295805 Report Delete

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>>43295797
The city of London, or London?

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 10:07:17 No.43295809 Report Delete

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>>43295797

now, like every other city on the planet, it's a landfill piled high with disused plastic bags, chain stores and nonwhites

t. peter hitchens (god save the queen)

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 10:11:49 No.43295836 Report Delete

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Depends of the setting.
Medival, or medival fantasy?
Nobody has a cue about logistics. Make shit shitty and an absolute nightmare. The only places where there ain't buildings within the city walls are markets, roman age trade routes, graveyards and church property.
Scifi? Logistics is key. Make the entire city look like it was planned by some autist who played too much open TDD.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 10:14:33 No.43295852 Report Delete

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>dutch city planning

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 10:17:26 No.43295871 Report Delete

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>>43295797
Pugin please

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 10:23:17 No.43295913 Report Delete

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>>43295549
Depends on the setting.

If it's fantasy I plan way too much. Lots of elaborate maps, often several of the same city to get all the districts, underground sections, and large buildings mapped out.

If it's intergalactic sci-fi I don't plan at all. Cities are so big yet easy to navigate in the future that I don't really care to make a map for most of them.
That and the fact that there are millions of cities and I have no way of knowing where the players might wander to next so it's just better to make some probably generators regarding what industries each city will have and make the rest up on the spot.

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monotreeme Mon 26 Oct 2015 11:07:54 No.43296315 Report Delete

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>>43295549
not enough.

I want that to change for my current homebrew though. I need a triplet of reasonably well laid out cities of a late Victorian era style. then I need to wrap them in crumbling Curtain Walls and fill them with mindless bloodthirsty monsters...

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 11:12:57 No.43296358 Report Delete

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>>43295549
Not enough evidently, that map is totally wrong

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 12:03:22 No.43296809 Report Delete

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>>43295581
Too much. I work with a city planning board for my day job and have splatbooks/supplements fit building variable grassroots economies and unusual trades.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 14:50:37 No.43298857 Report Delete

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>>43296358

Not OP, but what's wrong with it?

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