Worldbuilding | City Campaigns

My most recent campaign is a city! My recommendations to any fellow dms building a city is to not make a bunch of specific locations—let your players fill out the map! You should focus on making factions and characters. You can never make every building that your players are going to enter, but you can put interesting characters in their way.

If there's one thing I can advise to you world builders out there: Connect your cities to the larger world! If you have something unique in your city, why is it unique to this place? How does this city get resources? How is trading going? Do they have any alliances? The best thing you can do to connect your city to the rest of the world is to have a few factions from outside the city inside it! Maybe splinters and offshoots of those places, or ambassadors or even spies... TLDR: just a few references to other places in the world just makes a city feel so much more alive and realized. It's a good way to add detail without overwhelming yourself by creating 30 new factions. So... Yeah!

The agromancer is such a dope idea hahaha. I imagine that their thralls would also make good compost. Once they've run out of steam/lost control of a zombie (idk how necromancy works in d&d) it just collapses where it was working, providing one last contribution to the farm.

Man I'm in love with your channel. I think a building better demiliches would be really awesome, right now they just feel like a watered down version of the lich but have soo much potential.

I love the little information that is crucial for a city like where the junk goes, or where the material comes from, Also definitely going add dinning cult on my next campaign (love the idea of rich nobles having an appetite. Like a side quest in zelda botw 😅)

I’m literally building the next city my players are heading to right now and this video was perfect! Thanks for the tips!

I don't know if I'm ever going to use any of these tutorials, but my god are they soothing to watch and listen to

Your interpretation of the city as an organism with its own metabolism is wonderful. I will make great use of it probably every single time i develop a permanently-inhabited location from now on.

I too am just getting to the cities of my little worldbuilding project -- your timing is wonderful, so either you're reading the SEO tea leaves perfectly or just all of us are on the same wavelength right now.

I've been stuck trying to create a fantasy metropolis for a new campaign idea I had (where the players will be the actual police solving the crimes, rather than vice versa for once!) for so long, so this is extremely well-timed!

I am literally prepping my blades inspired 5e game for this weekend, and despite the weeks of work so far, you've given me even more to think about!

Cities can get pretty intense for Worldbuilders. They're able to be their own micro-worlds themselves if they're big enough. 🙂 ~ Adam

Awesome my dude. I'm starting to really love your channel! Keep up the great content.

I discovered your channel recently and I wanted to say I absolutely love the content, and I really appreciate how digestible it is!

I really love your channel, and this is the first advertised product I've actually used based on a channel recommendation/ad, so I'm actually doubly grateful! <3

Amazing video, thanks! The city metabolism idea is really useful.

I found your channel In the middle of making my campaign and continent for the game and your vids have helped me get an idea of how it is going to work out so I wanted to say thanks

Love this worldbuilding series. For building better monsters, I'd like to see your take on a classic monster, like a griffin or a vampire. I love what you did with dragons where you took a familiar, almost overdone monster and did something new with it

You are very well spoken and do a great job of explaining things!!! Your videos give me a lot of comfort and inspiration! Thank you!

Yo love your stuff so far. I’ve only seen two or three vids but I like the simplicity.