paizo.com - City Streets: Agouri's Scriptorium PDF

Need ancient scrolls translated? Want help interpreting the scribble on that treasure map? Agouri can help!

Agouri’s Scriptorium is a haven for those that need letters written, or any sort of translation service. Merchants use him for simple bookkeeping, and nobles send their children to learn to read and write. Agouri is well-traveled and can read, write, and speak a wide variety of languages, even languages dead and forgotten to others. If the PCs need special letters written, books translated, or any sort of language service Agouri’s is the place to turn to.

City Streets

Has dungeon work worn your adventurers down? Are they searching for something new and different? Need a place to get rid of their newfound wealth? Maybe it is time to hit the streets!

City Streets products provide heavily detailed city locations designed for enjoyable role-playing encounters while also including enough adventure hooks to encourage the characters to head back into danger. Whether it is a tavern, shop, guild house, noble's manor, or massage parlor, each of these locations contains detailed information about the building, business, and the NPCs living or working there. NPC descriptions are detailed but contain no statistical information making them useful with any game system.

Generic Universe Publishing (GU) is dedicated to providing inexpensive, simple game supplements to meet your fantasy role-playing needs. Most of our products use simple black and white art and hand-drawn maps as a tribute to the earliest RPGs. All of our RPG products are created with the philosophy that what YOU do with a book is what makes it truly memorable. Learn more about GU at our website.

Are there errors or omissions in this product information? Got corrections? Let us know at webmaster@paizo.com.

Not enough for the cost
Reviewer: Odonna Mirrin
Sat, Sep 5, 2009, 09:58 AM

I liked the ideas but some problems and costs ratio is why I make it just one star.

First off no clear prices, just a vague description, would have liked more crunch here. What I mean is 1 page 2cp, book small 1 gp, something like that would have been nice. Reference to his help with old maps is a neat idea but again vague on the costs. Then in the library leaves the titles of some rare items to the GM. I was buying this product to do this for me. The NPC's are interesting and could certainly fit in well at Sandpoint or any town. I liked them and saw potential use for all of them. The ideas are ok, one is rather kewl, but all lacked extras. Again they were vague and simply kernels of ideas. I would have liked more.

Then there is the waste of pages. Cover, inside cover, then 4 pages describing a mechanic of sorts which they already provided in the free pdf of the glass works. Why waste 4 pages doing this instead of adding some more meat to the details. 5 pages for the main body of stuff. Then the back page with adds and the like.

I know it's only a $1.59 so that's like 0.32 cents a page, which is really quite pricey for something that didn't WOW me at all.

Not good enough for the costs which is disappointing as I liked the ideas. But I am glad I bought one before buying the others as now very unlikely to purchase any others.