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

[Kaervas]

Edit:
Scratch that, wrong forum :P

[Soulken]

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

Never liked the realms prefer Greyhawk or Eberron or Kalamar and never played in the realms but read a couple of books set there.

[chaos_master]

Baldur's Gate, simply because it's the place where I got into DnD. Twisted Rune hall, Kangaxx, a random lich by the city exit door ... memories, sweet loading screen, memories

[noinfo]

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!

Cause Homlet and Greyhawk already there.

1. Bloodstone

2. Palanthus- cause every city should have a nice park in the middle of it :-p

[Jayfunked]

Nulb - good nightlife

The city at the edge of midnight - so nearly got rid of Bobby.

[Eryndel]

Let me add to the list, and I know I'm dating myself

Phlan

Awesome city, overrun by bad guys, PCs are young heroes seeking to take back the city (and gain some acclaim while they are at it.) And it set this whole computer based D&D thing going.

I'd agree also to Waterdeep, Village of Hommlet, Baldur's Gate, and Saltmarsh.

[cdbd3rd]

Horn - Gov't seat of the Barony of Horn. Lasted thru many campaigns, til a group set off a small tac-nuke in the library.


Dollar - A bustling trade city, far to the north of <the ruin of> Horn. Much mystery surrounds what wonders could be found in the side streets and back alleys of this city. (since my GW broke up shortly after I got that campaign fleshed out.)

/Opens a thick-walled box, exposing a glowing yellow lump. "Gather my friends, Revel In The Divine Radiant Glory!"




...Holy Moly, been years since I'd thought about Phlan.

[whysper]

That one **** hidden/lost/little-known village populated by elves/halflings/orcs/humans a little/long ways from the nearest settlement/town/marketplace, deep/somewhere in the woods/desert/badlands that turns out to be full of lycanthropes/cursed/plagued/nexus of undead/the location of three or four major artifacts which you cannot actually get/home of some nice-seeming but evil druid/ruled by some kind of a nymph BUT NOT THAT KIND **** IT who sends you to a mission or curse you into a tree or owl/haunted/missing the chief's daughter and whose inhabitants are dead/possess really weird powers for their level/instinctively hate you/think you are the saviour and overall are very primitive/surprisingly advanced.

Love that place.

[cdbd3rd]

That one **** hidden/lost/little-known village populated by elves/halflings/orcs/humans a little/long ways from the nearest settlement/town/marketplace, deep/somewhere in the woods/desert/badlands that turns out to be full of lycanthropes/cursed/plagued/nexus of undead/the location of three or four major artifacts which you cannot actually get/home of some nice-seeming but evil druid/ruled by some kind of a nymph BUT NOT THAT KIND **** IT who sends you to a mission or curse you into a tree or owl/haunted/missing the chief's daughter and whose inhabitants are dead/possess really weird powers for their level/instinctively hate you/think you are the saviour and overall are very primitive/surprisingly advanced.

Love that place.

I tried to get my people to go there - but they got drunk and started a bar brawl in another town instead.

Always wanted to go back there some day.


And the nymph?... She WAS that kind. I saw her pix.

[Arkat]

MULMASTER!

That's where the Mulmaster Beholder Corps is if you guys remember your SSI AD&D Gold Box games.

[Gamedog]

I always liked Zhentil Keep. Being caught by the Zhentarim, and trying to escape before they hang ya.....lots of fun.

[Grimgore]

Cauldron from the Shackled City Adventures.
Sharn, the original Eberron city
Tu'narath, the home of the gith before they escaped the mind flayers and split into factions. Was awesome to read about.

[Killer_Rabbit]

Let me add to the list, and I know I'm dating myself

Phlan

Awesome city, overrun by bad guys, PCs are young heroes seeking to take back the city (and gain some acclaim while they are at it.) And it set this whole computer based D&D thing going.

I'd agree also to Waterdeep, Village of Hommlet, Baldur's Gate, and Saltmarsh.

Phlan is an excellent addition, built on the ruins of the old city. Enough to have had a book based almost solely in its environs; Pool of radiance was my first and favourite book in this genre, not to mention the original PC game too (remake didn't do it justice), Phlan also appeared in many other books. Not to forget - it had one of the best bad guy names - Tyranthraxus.

Waterdeep is a definite additon... surely everyone knows that place.

[brian14]

Lets go underground

Menzoberranzan....

You have a point, but I always preferred early (as in, 1e) sparingly detailed cities, which were pretty much left for DM to flesh out.

So my vote goes to Erelhei-Cinlu.

[Happosaai]

Aww, noone's mentioned Tyr yet? :-P

Where's the Dark Sun fans in here??

[Hafeal]

As you didn't exclude it, I will conclude that Stormreach should get a mention.

[Kronik]

Being a Dragonlance man myself, cant leave out:

Palanthis
Flotsam
Neraka
Istar of old

[shores11]

1) Tantris
2) Waterdeep
3) Shadowdale

[Ghoste]

Mournland. Such a quaint and cozy place.

[marcosoneghett]

Lets go planar:


SIGIL - now there's a city which could fit perfectly in the EBERRON setting. And being planar, imagine Archons, Demons and Devils....