Top 10 D&D Towns & Villages of All-Time!!!

[Mr_Ed7]

1. The Keep on the Borderlands: Your intro Basic set village, complete with Tavern, Bank, Inn etc...It was fun to break-out of the prison ...if you had that sort of campaign.

2. Greyhawk: THE city of the D&D/Gygax world...the world WE SHOULD be playing in...

3. Lankmar: This gritty city environment has various districts, a large color map and more...check-out The Slayers Brotherhood....

4. Village of Homlet: On your way to the Temple of Elemental evil? Well this simple little homlet is where you stop...not alot of goods here for the tourists...

5. Restonford: Part of some low-level sea-side quest...my Dwarf took-over the tavern there once!

6. Barnacus: This little-city provided me with hours and hours of fun...before Lankmar. First appeared in a Dragon magazine.

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Please post additional comments and memories!

[Uska]

Here's mine

1. Village of the Hommlet

2. Keep on the borderlands

3. Greyhawk

4. City State of the Invincible Overlord(judges guild)

5. Whatever city Tegal Manor was near.

the rest were usually always gm made up places or one I cant remember the names of.

[Myriam]

1. The Keep on the Borderlands: Your intro Basic set village, complete with Tavern, Bank, Inn etc...It was fun to break-out of the prison ...if you had that sort of campaign.

2. Greyhawk: THE city of the D&D/Gygax world...the world WE SHOULD be playing in...

3. Lankmar: This gritty city environment has various districts, a large color map and more...check-out The Slayers Brotherhood....

4. Village of Homlet: On your way to the Temple of Elemental evil? Well this simple little homlet is where you stop...not alot of goods here for the tourists...

5. Restonford: Part of some low-level sea-side quest...my Dwarf took-over the tavern there once!

6. Barnacus: This little-city provided me with hours and hours of fun...before Lankmar. First appeared in a Dragon magazine.

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10.

Please post additional comments and memories!

Anyplace accept Shadowdale. Ed Greenwood and his whole Elminster persona NPC is the most laughable attempt at an interesting character ever.

Ed: "Hey let me make an uber level 100 NPC and run my friends through campaigns where he comes to save the day all the time, because every 4th level party should have to fight dragons! Of course, my NPC could appear and save them all!"


I would have to say, though, The Inn of the Last Home, in Solace.

Lankhmar! Yes! I love Fafhrd and Grey Mouser.

[MysterX]

Sigil from Planescape

[jambajuicey]

I've always thought Waterdeep was a pretty defacto city

[jomonkey527]

Would have to say Waterdeep and how can Neverwinter not be in there?

[jomonkey527]

Not sure if any of you play Neverwinter Nights 2, but there is a highly rated module that someone made for Keep on the Borderlands. I have been dying to download it and try it out, and bring some old memories back. It will intersting to "see" if it is how I envisioned when playing years ago.

[Symar-FangofLloth]

Sharn is pretty fricken cool.
Immense towers supported by magic, connected by bridges, flying coaches, and numerous other things that can only exist because it's coterminous with the plane of air.
And it's topped with floating islands where the wealthiest of the wealthy live.

[Samy]

I'm not going to compare ranks, but some up there are:

Hommlet
Waterdeep
Shadowdale
Sigil
Icewind Dale

[Robi3.0]

#1: Lake Geneva

[Furluge]

Yeah I have to agree that Sharn is a pretty interesting and fantastic city.

By the by, the original Village of Hommlet, precursor to the temple of elemental evil, was re-published for 4th edition not to long ago. Was kind of neat.

[SquelchHU]

Sharn is pretty fricken cool.
Immense towers supported by magic, connected by bridges, flying coaches, and numerous other things that can only exist because it's coterminous with the plane of air.
And it's topped with floating islands where the wealthiest of the wealthy live.

This. The only published city I like, because all of the FR ones are choked up by self insert NPCs, and most of the others don't do a good enough job of being believable parts of the worlds they are placed in.

[THAC0]

Well, I have to chime in on this post. Blackmoor. While not a specific city... I think it is worth mentioning.

Though Arneson left TSR in the early 1980s, Blackmoor remained a part of D&D lore and was referred to in many later supplements. In a subsequent re-release of the world of Greyhawk for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (AD&D) game, an Arctic region of mysterious black ice in the northwestern area of the map was called Blackmoor. However, Arneson's Blackmoor would become integral to a different setting and rules-system, those of the Basic Dungeons & Dragons game.

Reference = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackmoor

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[Sir_Chonas]

Waterdeep should be where we are playing . . .never heard of anyone not going there at some point in their pen and paper career.

[Draccus]

Calimport!

Being a rogue fanatic, I can't help but like a city ruled by a network of Thieves Guilds. Plus, the best character in all of the Forgotten Realms came from Calimport: Artemis Entreri.

[Adarin]

I'll give it a go...

Small Towns

1.) Solace (home of the best DND stories ever told)

2.) Hommlet (Site of the greatest Gygaxian adventure imnsho)

3.) Shadowdale (Love it or hate it the Forgotten Realms kept the game alive in the late 80s early 90s)

4.) Mithril Hall (Gotta love yourself some dwarven berserkers and everyone's favorite cliche'd drow)

5.) Threshold (Let us not forget our roots)

Big Cities

1.) Greyhawk

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Gotta run, but I'll get into this group later. Basically pick and choose from the big three systems. Some good big city ones above though.

[leviathan]

Lets go underground

Menzoberranzan....

[lordbachus]

Anyplace accept Shadowdale. Ed Greenwood and his whole Elminster persona NPC is the most laughable attempt at an interesting character ever.

Ed: "Hey let me make an uber level 100 NPC and run my friends through campaigns where he comes to save the day all the time, because every 4th level party should have to fight dragons! Of course, my NPC could appear and save them all!"


I would have to say, though, The Inn of the Last Home, in Solace.

Lankhmar! Yes! I love Fafhrd and Grey Mouser.

That shadowdale "quote" tells me more about your DM in those games then about shadowdale and Elminster, obviously he abused the whole persona. I adventured in shadowdale with some friends and when we went to the great Elminster begging for help all we found was a little kitten in front of his door... and a piece of paper attached to his door telling us he was not at home...


1) Waterdeep (build on top of the greatest dungeon ever)
2) Sollace
3) Menzoberanzan

[VinceRN]

1. Viridistan: The City-state of the World Emperor.

2. Greyhawk: THE city of the D&D/Gygax world... If you're not going to make a world of you own this is the one you should be using.

3. Village of Homlet: A friend of mine turned this little town into the center of power in the known universe. Gods fought over, and in Homlet. It really sucked to be a farmer or other normal person in the area.

4. - 10. Dunno, I've avoided most other published worlds or cities, and haven't much liked the ones I have looked into.

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[timberhick]

1. Perasis: Who doesn't like a dirty, stinky waterfront with a big bakery down the street.
2. T'Laenthir: Elves have cool things in their cities, especially if your not suppose to find them.
3. Daggerford: So many memories...
4. Kain: Loved watching it getting blown up by the Githyanki
5. Stilton: who doesn't love a town made out of barges on stilts, with walleyed inbred townfolk with lousy cajun accents?
6. Kor Minar: A grand city ruled over by an immortal Halfling? You gotta be crazy...
7. Otune: The city where everything and anyone is for sale.