tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post1542147949433611132..comments2024-03-28T22:10:04.089+08:00Comments on Monsters and Manuals: The City, it's The City y'all.... The CityUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-52031780122026316742009-01-05T22:23:00.000+08:002009-01-05T22:23:00.000+08:00Max: Pig man, baby, pig man! Sorry.I like Alastair...<B>Max</B>: Pig man, baby, pig man! <BR/><BR/>Sorry.<BR/><BR/>I like Alastair Reynolds' settings quite a lot. I'll have to see if I can get my hands on Chasm City. I really liked the one in which Earth had been rendered completely desolate by nanobots, and humanity lived in orbiting stations - only venturing to the planet's surface in massively armoured archaeological expeditions.noismshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09933436762608669966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-19050381627137585512009-01-04T13:27:00.000+08:002009-01-04T13:27:00.000+08:00Alastair Reynolds had a good one, Chasm City, in a...Alastair Reynolds had a good one, Chasm City, in an eponymous novel. It's essentially post-apocalyptic: a city of mile high, super-high tech skyscrapers melted and mutated by an alien nanotech virus. The rich still have access to life extending technology, but take out contracts on *themselves* in the hope of distraction, and bragging rights should they survive. Bioengineered pig-men live among the poor in the ground level slums. The planet is ringed by the mostly abandoned hulks of a thousand orbital habitats once known as the Glitter Band, now the Rust Belt.<BR/><BR/>Also: Lankhmar. Can't really call it a megalopolis but it remains one of the great fantasy cities. Were-rat palace coups, the Street of Gods, the Plaza of Dark Delights, Cheap Street and the ur-Thieves' Guild for FRPG.Maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07615194097431562045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-19115511193401567372009-01-04T00:51:00.000+08:002009-01-04T00:51:00.000+08:00I'm not familiar with Virconium, but I have no arg...I'm not familiar with Virconium, but I have no arguments with the rest. I think Sigil may be the best city-as-roleplaying-setting out there; TSR's designers really went to town (ha) when they came up with that place. My only problem with it, and <I>Planescape</I> in general is that it's so big; the explorer in me would want to have everything mapped and detailed, but it's the whole multiverse, so it would be foolish to try!<BR/><BR/>Armada is part of why <I>The Scar</I> is my favourite Mieville novel; the city's unique nature means that it's easy to drop into any setting too.<BR/><BR/>Kharé is brilliant, but I'd have to go with Blacksand if I had to choose just one <I>Fighting Fantasy</I> city. It's a bit more generic, but ironically it feels more realised.thekelvingreenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01928260185408072124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-27134892791627057632009-01-03T01:53:00.000+08:002009-01-03T01:53:00.000+08:00szilard: Shhh, don't ask questions. :P<B>szilard</B>: Shhh, don't ask questions. :Pnoismshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09933436762608669966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-14864125814577727952009-01-03T01:52:00.000+08:002009-01-03T01:52:00.000+08:00Chris: I've never read anything by Bryant, but may...<B>Chris</B>: I've never read anything by Bryant, but maybe I'll start...noismshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09933436762608669966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-3076553667261844392009-01-03T01:51:00.000+08:002009-01-03T01:51:00.000+08:00Indigo is cool, but is there a reason why all that...Indigo is cool, but is there a reason why all that insanely valuable real estate at the top of the crater is empty?Stuarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06319443832578685630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-40439955927001097342009-01-03T01:44:00.000+08:002009-01-03T01:44:00.000+08:00No love for Edward Bryant's "Cinnabar"? How can yo...No love for Edward Bryant's "Cinnabar"? How can you not like a post-historical city powered by a black hole and inhabited by heterogenes, cat-people, wannabe heroes, immortals, timelost visitors from the '60s, megalodon sharks, snarks, and Luddites. The whole lot being overseen by a time-refracted AI being driven slowly insane by the problem of synchronising its own iterations.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04072272223837426211noreply@blogger.com