CITY STATE OF THE INVINCIBLE OVERLORD FULL
CITY STATE OF THE INVINCIBLE OVERLORD FREE

CITY STATE OF THE INVINCIBLE OVERLORD FULL

It smells of a pig roast and always seems full up with a rough customers, drinking wine, and gossiping. A one-eyed notorious bootmaster and his huge, bigoted, ogre wife have a front shop selling boots. Rumor: Two drunken Rogues Possessing a Staff of Power are slumped over a horse tie (actually two dying Sages). Rumor: Adolescent Wench is being dragged by her hair south on Slash Street by an Ogre named Gothmag. Customers include Bandits, Thieves, and Ogres, NA: 1-6, LVL 1-6 Sign over door 'Elves & Halflings Axe on Sight in Shop'. Map to 3000 GP hidden in the Despot Ruins. Four kegs of wine, flask of oil, roast pig, cloak hanging on peg has key to strongbox. Trapdoor to pit opening into tunnels below the city. Aliadar, huge Ogre wife: HD 4+1 HP:26 AC:5.

Large Battle Axe over counter Strongbox: 14 SP, 28 CP, 1-6 GP on person. Notorious Bootmaster - 28 pairs PROB 20% of fit, 3 GP each (double for Dwarves). It is, in fact, the second entry in the book:Ĭlass Align Lvl HP AC SL STR INT WIS CON DEX CHAR WPN Here is a sample shop entry, under Barter Street. They are terse and suggestive of a whole scene of action, and have the flavor of something banged out in a fevered pitch on a typewriter. The entries are organized by street name. Unlike many other city products of a later vintage, moved by a similar fantasy of totally knowing a city, the CSIO has no patience for extensive trivia. When I say that the city is lovingly detailed, so that you can know every corner and alley way, and can catalogue at least a large fraction of its more interesting establishments, I don't mean that it is like a fantasy encyclopedia.

CITY STATE OF THE INVINCIBLE OVERLORD FREE

The way that a dungeon map is the heart of a dungeon crawl adventure, and is a kind of known environment (to the DM), coiled like a spring with possibilities, and filled with fun to be had around every turn-this is like that-except bigger, more open, and so looser, and more free wheeling, dependent on chance and a greater level of improvisation. Just walking from one neighborhood to another in order to visit some shops will embroil a party in numerous exploits. The idea is that it is full, dripping, almost implausibly exploding, with adventure. The reason that the map is the heart of the CSIO is that it approaches the city as a giant dungeon. Many (roughly 1 in 4) of these buildings have names and keyed entries. It also shows you every single building in the city. The map names every major street and plaza, and you can trace the many back alleys, and envision their twists an turns. It's set in a pleasingly complex geography, surrounding the Estuary of Roglaroon, and the Mermist Swamps, giving it a sort of seedy port feel. It is absolutely gorgeous, a thing of real beauty. The heart of the product is the map of the City State.

City state of the invincible overlord