This worksheet is an expanded, fillable, and savable version of The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game's Settlement Sheet. Like other NSN products it's the final design of several game masters and player's comments. It is also complete with Adobes Reader Extended Features so that you can save your data and work on it again later.
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Expanded for easy of read and more details including:
more detailed NPC section
more detailed groups and factions section
more detailed location section
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Having bought the Realm sheet just before this product, I wasn't sure it would be worth the price I was going to pay for it; but I was feeling generous and bought it anyway (along with the Deluxe Character Sheet). My main thought coming in was how it was going to differ from Paizo's original settlement sheet in the back of the Gamemaster's Guide.
To be fair, it doesn't differ: everything there is still there. The major difference to that end is that instead of cramming all of that information onto a single sheet, it's spread out onto two sheets. When working on the Marketplace sheet on Paizo's, there's never enough room for value when you write down the Major/Moderate/Minor Items; this gives you more than enough room, value getting a separate section of the Marketplace area of the sheet. Likewise, factions and NPCs get more detail than a simple single-line given to them by Paizo-Alignment, membership, probable location, rather helpful details.
The major improvement, aside from space given by Notsonoble, is the section for drawing the map of your city. Sure, might not be helpful if you have a metropolis or large city, but it doesn't hurt to have. If anything it can help you on a visual level: after all, one of the reasons Minas Tirith is so interesting in Return of the King is the visual aspect of it.
Only detriment I think of is its overall similarity to Paizo's sheet. The differences above are enough to justify buying it to me, but it feels like it should have more to it; I'll likely save suggestions for the Discussion area of this product.
If this and the Realms sheet are a sign of things to come from this maker, one can expect only good things in the future. Worth the price far and wide.
I'm going to sound like a broken record here from my suggestions from the Realms sheet (I don't think I praise enough), you might consider a small box for the settlement's crest. Just as countries have flags, cities occasionally have crests/flags/what have you. To break away from repeating myself, I might also suggest, as you have on your Realms sheet, an important events section: dates of founding, dates of holidays/festivals, that whole shebang. Maybe even adding another part for notable laws in the Demographics section.
Another suggestion I might have is a local flavor section. Perhaps a small area for visual characteristics of the buildings, the environment surrounding the settlement, or traits among the locals: say they all have black hair, or green eyes, that might stand out. Not really anything in the way of stats other sections might call for, but it's a thought.
If anyone else is running linux here's what I've discovered.
Okular (KDE's PDF Reader) Still doesn't support the image boxes.
Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.7 is the current Acroread for Linux. It DOES support the image boxes.
AAR 9.7 Is really ugly in KDE.
I find it odd that there is no rumors/adventure hooks section on it considering the regular one has it, which is quite a handy thing to have on a quick reference sheet.
I find it odd that there is no rumors/adventure hooks section on it considering the regular one has it, which is quite a handy thing to have on a quick reference sheet.
That's true, I'd built that into the Realm sheet as at the time most of my groups gamemasters said that was the place to put it. I'm looking into a rebuild of several sheets. I'll see what I can do about it.