I'm looking to start a 1st Ed Ad&d campaign on a bi-monthly basis with some old friends. Now I was going to have the characters as sort of investigator/bounty hunter types but I need a decent city to set the action in. Does anyone have a suggestion for a decent city to set the action in? Don't mind if it's TSR or not as the setting is my own but the main thing I really need is some really good maps for chases over rooftops, pubs, markets etc. I don't mind re-writing the background (I always do to some extent no matter how thorough the background is I always find extra bits to personalise things!) so I suppose it doesn't even need to be D&D based at all at a push.

P.S. UK Sellers: Could do with buying a sort of starter set for three new players (three PHB 1st Ed any edition but decent condition and a set of dice for each and maybe one DMG so I don't have to worry about getting my own copies covered in beer and junk food!) if you have them kicking about gimme a shout and maybe we can work out a deal!

You can download the City of Greyhawk maps published by Paizo in Living Greyhawk Journal #2 for free on the author/artist's web site at http://www.melkot.com/locations/cogh/cogh.html (dialup folks beware, the files are quite large).

Plaag wrote:City State of the Invincible Overlord or City State of the World Emporer are good choices

ShaneG.

City State of the Invincible Overlord is a good solid basis for any campaign.

On a smaller scale (but probably more expensive), you may consider Midkemia (Carse, Jonril, Tulan). These are also a good solid base to build a campaign on. Or even the Wheeler's Islandia campaign world (Curse on Hareth, Plague of Terror, Gems For Death). They also build into an imensely detailed campaign world, but one that is very dark and vicious.

As regards the bounty hunter concept per se, you'd be better floating the idea on the general forum at http://www.dragonsfoot.org. They are obsessive about their game play over there, and I've found if you ask a question looking for ideas, they are more than happy to run with the topic.

I was thinking Harn or Irrillian (SP) if anyone remembers them? Irillian was a WD thing and I'm no computer whizz so I I prolly couldn't make hte maps merge (plus printer not working for reasons I'll never figure!) so how about Waterdeep re-written? I seem to remember Harn was published in parts and I can't recall seeing a full version but this may be my mind failing in my dotage!

I appreciate the thought John but one of the players is a local firefighter and another works for the local police so I'd prefer a town apart from mine for obvious reasons!

The City State things sound promising are they Mayfair items?

Can't recall with regards to high-detail maps, if that's what you're looking for specifically, but how 'bout good ol' Lankhmar on a cost-value basis and a relatively easy setting within which to plan sessions in an episodic manner?



£3 is about the mark (and coug has 2e cheaper)

e.g. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 8771724946



If you're not familiar with the background, much of value can be derived from "The Swords of Lankhmar"

( http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 8768763865 / http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 8770590250 ), 'though there's no reason why not to use the map/book alone and wing it...



Just a thought, anyhow.

The original City State of the Invincible Overlord has the benefits of having it's surrounding wilderness already detailed, and it also has a complete sewer system detailed, Wraith Overlord. It's the most complete city system I've come across.