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My players are heading to a port city in next week's adventure (unless I stall them by a week with a pirate attack). I'd like to use material from one of the great port cities in published Paizo work.
Ideally the city was once great but has now become somewhat seedy and dangerous.
Magnimar might work, but it's a little too large and upscale. Also, the Irespan is almost TOO distinctive; in the city I need, there isn't a gigantic ruined bridge.
Wati, the starting city in the Mummy's Mask AP, isn't bad, but it doesn't look much like a port city.
Any suggestions?
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Bloodcove in the Mwangi Expanse is a very dangerous pirate port.
Katapesh (the capital of Katapesh) is the second biggest port in the Inner Sea but is not very run-down. Okeno (also in Katapesh) is a bit more rough. Not much published material, though.
Riddleport is probably your best bet. It's kinda the opposite of what you said (but not in a bad way). It was a very seedy pirate haven, but has been getting to be a little more reputable port city for the past few centuries. Not too reputable though. The current Overlord got his title the traditional way - by murdering the guy who used to have the job. And it's built on thousands-of-years-old ruins. There's not a whole book dedicated to it, but there is a two-page spread in Varisia, Birthplace of Legends, and a lot of info in the first book of the Second Darkness AP. It does have a distinctive big arch over the harbor.
I think you should look at the Shackles, the literal "we are pirates" part of Golarion.
This is very helpful. Riddleport and Port Peril both have published maps and articles with interesting locations. Both would work well.
Bloodcove also sounds interesting, but I don't see enough published info on it to get me very far.
@Claxon, I have the Skull & Shackles AP sitting on my desk... I definitely need to spend more time looking through it.
Thanks for the ideas.
Cities of Golarion includes Corentyn, Cassomir and Nisroch; Towns of the Inner Sea includes Pezzack and Diobel. All with maps, location, hooks, etc. It depends what you're after.
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Thank you for the ideas. I was surprised to find that the map of Nisroch from Cities of Golarion works quite well for me. While I don't envision that my city is part of a theocratic totalitarian state, Nisroch has (a) an air of gloom and despair, and (b) a port district somewhat separate from the rest of the city, where much of the action can take place.
That said, I am definitely drawing inspiration from the Puddles district, and probably from some of the cities in the Shackles.
I guess I don't need to say this here, but I will: Pathfinder has incredible amounts of high quality material to draw on.