City Encounters
Well here's your tool to add a whole new dimension to your city game experiences. Based on Midkemia Press' Cities book, this is the only fully licensed product that brings city encounter and expedition ideas to your digital tabletop.By simply selecting the area of town, the time of day and whether encounters are to occur on main streets or side streets City Encounters generates hundreds of situational ideas just waiting to pull your unsuspecting characters into the power politics or criminal underbelly of the city. Additionally included is a simple expeditions generator, producing hundreds of expedition ideas to trigger adventures for your players.
Get out of that hole in the ground! Come visit the City (and be sure to leave some of your hard earned treasure behind)! It doesn't matter which RPG you play this is the tool for you.
The free version limits you to generates one encounter at a time tailored for the Merchant Quarter during the Day and on Main streets. For just $1.99 you can upgrade with an in-app purchase and generate multiple encounters at once using all the combinations of Area of Town, Time of Day, and Street type.
Keywords: Cities, Encounters, Role play gaming, Gamesmaster, Dungeons and Dragons, tool
Category : Role Playing
Reviews (15)
I love this. I used this, in book form, all the time in the 80s. I now use this app in all my city adventure games.
A nice distillation of the original Cities book encounter tables and probably works best as a companion to that book (still available from Midkemia as a PDF). Be forewarned, it generates fairly terse results and is really just a springboard for generating on the fly encounters as your characters move about town, you as the GM are going to have to provide the flavor and context. It works best when paired with a system that has light stat blocks for NPCs. The only thing it's missing that I'd love to see added from the book, are the "character catch up" tables and the demographics tables.
It offers up a number of encounter suggestions, you can configure how many, that a GM can glance at and work with in a game. It keeps it game agnostic. I just wish that more was included from the book. I liked lodging and the character catch up section. I really wouldn't mind if that were included as another in app purchase.
You can't use anything apart from the default settings and if you want more, you have to pay. The encounters are varied but after some time it gets boring
I'm currently running a sandbox solo campaign, and at times have run against a wall when the PC decides to "walk around town." I would like to echo the request for a wilderness version of this. Thanks for the great app!
Description tend to be too short or poorly written. Must pay real money for something that is so simple it should've been free. Rated 1 star
I think this would be a good app except you have to pay to use it...i dont want to sound terrible but im not sure if its truly worth it...I can get a free generator online...maby if it had more details some pictures maybe even a conversation suggestion mood setting and just more stuff...im kinda really disappointed with this app
You can't change the settings unless you pay for it. I can understand maybe limiting the settings, but only allowing people to generate the default settings? That's ridiculous.
I'm looking running some sandbox adventures, and this is just the ticket for in-town action. Do you have anything like this for wilderness and dungeon adventures? It would be nice, if the paid version didn't require an Internet connection to run.
Not really wroth 2 bucks
very good app for dnd users
Need to pay to really do anything
Like said before only being able to access one option without paying isnt worth it and like you said , it doesnt "meet my needs": an app llike this one should have a free version with maybe 2-3 options available otherwise using roll tables(free mind you) is actually more efficient. If making the free app have more options isnt possible , then you should at least lower the price: 2$ is a little bit too high, please consider lowering it to 1.50$
Could not do much even though it's a free download.
I REALLY wanted to like this and even though I cannot recommend it currently I did purchase it in the hopes that the developer will add to this. As much as I liked these when they first came out in the book I really expected some form of upgrade in 30+ years of use on this table. It isn't like you have no serious competition in this arena. I know you can do better as a gaming company than this. You really have to step up your game but I have faith that you can. Will reassess my view in 6 month