What if...Cities of Golarion 2?

[MerrikCale]

I would love another book in this series. If it happened, I would want these cities

1. Augustana

2. Highhelm

3. Sothis

4. Thronestep

5. Isarn

6. Starfall

thoughts?

[Gorbacz]

Westcrown, dude.

[Set]

Sothis, Thronestep and Starfall would definitely be on my top three! Pangolais, Quantium and Kalsgard also intrigue me.

But Thronestep and Pangolais (and Whitethrone, Azir and Mechitar) don't seem terribly PC-friendly, in different ways.

A book focusing on capital cities of the 'Inner Sea Five,' Oppara, Katheer, Sothis, Egorian and Almas, could be neat.

[Aberzombie]

I wouldn't mind seeing Sothis, Oppara and Egorian. Others I'd like to see are Highhelm, Mechitar, Quantium, and Niswan.

[golem101]

Urglin, Highhelm, Sothis, Promise, Mechitar.

[MerrikCale]

I went with Sothis, Isarn and Starffall because we havent seen much of Osirion, Galt and Numeria and I think a lot of people are interested in that. Plus, those three are very different

Highhelm because we could use more dwarf love

Thronestep because its unusual and the book would need some evil cities (Cities of Golarion does have a few evil cities)

Finally, Augustana because Andoran is cool. You could talk me out of that one, to be fair

I think Karlsgard would be cool (love me Vikings)

also, a city from Tian Xia might be a good choice

[Numerian]

1. Starfall
Quantium
Alkenstar
Isarn
Nerosyan
Yled in Geb

or Azir in Rahadoum

[Mikaze]

Sothis

Oh, Rovagug's gonna send one of his spawn over to tear up Osirion?

Okay, fine. We'll kill it. We'll hollow it out. And we'll build a new city inside the damn thing.

That's right, we killed a harbinger of destruction and created something with its corpse. Oh, and it offers some really great shade. How does Rovagug like that?

-Some Pharaoh, attributed

[MerrikCale]

yeah a big dead beetle in the middle of your city is kinda cool

[BPorter]

Heck, yes! Me want!

[Set]

Sothis (or Katheer, or Azir, or Merab, or Kalsgard, or Geb, or Nex, or Niswan) does have the advantage of getting to see some new architecture. So many of the current cities are pretty much indistinguisable 'fantasy medieval Europe' architecture, that they kind of look the same to me.

Faux Egyptian, Persian, Indian or 'viking' architecture could make for a cool visual break.

[captain yesterday]

1. Sothis
2. Kalabuto
3. Almas
4. Daggermark
5. Azir
6. Starfall

[gigglestick]

Set wrote:

Sothis, Thronestep and Starfall would definitely be on my top three! Pangolais, Quantium and Kalsgard also intrigue me.

But Thronestep and Pangolais (and Whitethrone, Azir and Mechitar) don't seem terribly PC-friendly, in different ways.

A book focusing on capital cities of the 'Inner Sea Five,' Oppara, Katheer, Sothis, Egorian and Almas, could be neat.

I definitely think that an "Inner Sea Five" plus one would be a great book.

Wasn't Westcrown already covered in the COT AP?

[Set]

gigglestick wrote:

Wasn't Westcrown already covered in the COT AP?

I believe so. And I think I'd rather see one on Egorian anyway, because both the write ups of Korvosa and Westcrown mention a specific 'Egorian style' of architecture, but I don't recall any pictures of that style (at least, not labeled as such, and my not owning Council of Thieves obviously hinders that), making it kind of like a descriptive passage saying that the person's eyes are a sort of frzlehip color, which leaves me wondering what frzlehip looks like...

[Gorbacz]

The problem with Westcrown is that a city that has an entire AP running inside of it doesn't have a full book. CotCT has just 4 adventures in Korvosa, but you have a whole Korvosa book. The lack of Westcrown book is one of reasons why I likely won't run CoT.

[Set]

Gorbacz wrote:

The problem with Westcrown is that a city that has an entire AP running inside of it doesn't have a full book.

That's a good point.

[Dave Gross]

I want dibs on Egorian. And a whole book.

[MerrikCale]

Dave Gross wrote:

I want dibs on Egorian. And a whole book.

does this dibs count?

[Todd Stewart]

I call dibs on a book of planar cities.

I could also totally get behind Sothis, Egorian, Kalabuto, and a few others getting coverage in a book. :)

[Set]

Todd Stewart wrote:

I call dibs on a book of planar cities.

I could also totally get behind Sothis, Egorian, Kalabuto, and a few others getting coverage in a book. :)

I'd love to see your take on Axis. It seems part actual city, part archetypal 'ideal of a city,' sort of, as if all worldly cities were just differently shaped shadows of the one true city of Axis.

It could be neat if some of the buildings were constructed by or even *from* various lawful outsiders. In Axis, when they say 'angels in the architecture,' they mean actual angels, with the building constructed around towering lawful outsiders that support them in a physical, as well as metaphysical, sense.

Plus a million to Sothis.

"Hey look, it's a herald of the apocalypse, spat forth by the god of destruction to ravage civilization! Let's build a city out of it."

[MerrikCale]

Todd Stewart wrote:

I call dibs on a book of planar cities.

now that is a really really cool idea

[Set]

For planar cities, it's intriguing how much play the City of Brass gets in various awesome products, while the Elemental Planes of Air, Earth and Water haven't really gotten fleshed out in that manner. A city of floating structures and buildings, connected by bridges (or not at all) orbiting a central palace in a bewildering fractal dance, moving through the plane of air, could be neat, or a coral city built on the inner and outer surfaces of a giant bubble of superheated chemically-laced air (spawned from a rift to the elemental plane of fire, like the magical version of a deep sea smoker vent?), drifting aimlessly through the plane of water, could be funky.

For Golarion, Shadow Absalom seems to be the most prominent planar city, aside from Axis. That's a neat twist.

[Todd Stewart]

Set wrote:

For Golarion, Shadow Absalom seems to be the most prominent planar city, aside from Axis. That's a neat twist.

Shadow Absalom and Galisemni are pretty much tied for number 1 on my list of things I'd love to write about at this point. :)

[Set]

Todd Stewart wrote:

Set wrote:

For Golarion, Shadow Absalom seems to be the most prominent planar city, aside from Axis. That's a neat twist.

Shadow Absalom and Galisemni are pretty much tied for number 1 on my list of things I'd love to write about at this point. :)

Had to google Galisemni. Interesting sounding place, based on your snippet about it over on ENWorld (although your description of Axis was way more compelling!).

Maybe five years down the road, after Lost Cities of Iblydos and Dungeons of Akiton and Monstrous Vermin Revisited, we'll be ready for Cities of the Planes? :)

[Numerian]

I'd prefer a whole book on Axis, Cities of Golarion format is way to short for such a place

[Mikaze]

Set wrote:

It could be neat if some of the buildings were constructed by or even *from* various lawful outsiders. In Axis, when they say 'angels in the architecture,' they mean actual angels, with the building constructed around towering lawful outsiders that support them in a physical, as well as metaphysical, sense.

You could twist this around in the worst possible ways and apply it to Dis too. :)

Pretty much HAVE to nominate Dis for any Planar Cities book too, though if it's "Planar Hotspots", voting for Ouroboros Valley as well!

[Todd Stewart]

Mikaze wrote:

though if it's "Planar Hotspots", voting for Ouroboros Valley as well![/ooc]

That's a really really obscure one! :D