“A
great city is that which has the greatest men and women.”
— Walt
Whitman
My
interest
in
fantasy roleplaying
game city
settings came
soon after I discovered Dungeons
& Dragons.
After receiving the basic set for Easter in 1982, I saved
my allowance and, when summer break started that year, went to
Branchville Hobby down the road and bought the Expert
D&D
boxed set. The clerk slipped a copy of Adventure
Gaming
magazine in the bag,
a nice treat for a neophyte like me who hadn’t yet discovered
Dragon
magazine or other periodicals fueling my enthusiasm for a new hobby.
Among the wonders inside (including an adventure by Gary Gygax!) was
a review of Chaosium’s new boxed set based on the popular Thieves’
World
short story anthologies...focusing on the shared setting City of
Sanctuary and its inhabitants. This one article opened my eyes to a
new environment for fantasy roleplaying which occasionally reached
out to tempt me throughout the years.
