Bringing together the Forgotten Realms Weave and the Dungeon Master's Friendly Initiative, this is the first version of Waterdeep: City of Splendors. Built as a platform for collaboration, this prefab campaign can be easily expanded to include new areas of the city, underground crypts, nearby forests and guarded mansions of the rich and powerful. This is the perfect starting place for your next single player, multi-player or DM-run campaign.
At present this consists of three large exterior areas in one of the Forgotten Realms most spectacular cities with a number of interiors to be used as the basis for your next campaign. There is also an extensible world map system in place for traveling between areas.
The city is filled with commoners and nobles walking the streets going about their business, but there are also notable NPCs just waiting for you to breathe life into them. There are also a few merchants scattered throughout the city offering stores that scale by level for players to use.
Special thanks to everyone at the FRW and DMFI in giving feedback and encouragement on this project over at the Citadel: Aristan, dunniteowl, lariam, dirtywick, lordniah, styraxian, ladydesire, dark_wraith, Estelindis, steelfiredragon, dmguild, Carlo and anyone else I forgot.
Requirements
Requires MOTB 1.13 and the DMFI player/dm package (included in the custom content download):
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Installation
DMs and builders should download the campaign, custom content and documentation files. Follow the install.txt file for more information.
I'm currently uploading a new version of Waterdeep that uses Carlo's DMFI basemod and contains a few other fixes. I've sent an email over to the powers that be, so it should be up in a day or two. Thanks!
Posted by nicethugbert at 2008-12-02 20:52:30 Voted 10.00 on 12/02/08
Posted by Carlo at 2008-12-02 17:46:10 Voted 7.50 on 12/02/08
This is a very useful prefab for builders as is, especially for the three exterior areas. Documentation is also good, if incomplete in its current state. Have made some comments to the author and would very much welcome seeing further additions/updates to the prefab (in which case I'll be happy to revise the score upward).
Thanks for the kind words and thanks for the vote! I definitely have plans for building out a DM'ed multi-player campaign using this at some point. You comment makes me thing I should focus on something that can be played with or without a DM. I hope others use this also.
I wanted to get this out the door before SoZ (and it looks like I just barely made it under the wire).
Feedback is very much appreciated and I'd like to release an update of the prefab in the very near future. Please post any nits or requests here or just email me.
Thanks again for the vote and thanks in advance to any and all who are willing to take some time and provide feedback!
Posted by Nihlar at 2008-11-19 07:24:55 Voted 9.00 on 11/19/08
First vote!!!
Downloaded it this morning and have been running around in it and dissecting it in the toolset.
I give it a clean 9 as it eliminates any need for building a such area when creating a Waterdeep adventure. Download this one and your ready to go. It's easy to add your own encounters and flavor and there was no big issues with it. Plenty of good to great places to go and some neat NPC's to meet.
Why not a higher vote? :) Nine is high and well deserved. An extra 0.25 could have been given for some extra polishing when it comes to terrain texture, shadowing and more creative use of placeables. Thumbs up Vendalus! _________________________ ZORK - Rediscovering the Great Underground Empire
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Ah, this looks awesome. It is rather surprising, actually, that there haven't been any chances (in SP) for extensive Waterdeep adventuring in the history of NWN. I certainly hope this helps changing the situation! And I'm sure many others do, too. :)
How about you, vandalus and Aristan? Any plans for modules set in the city?
10 - A Masterpiece, Genuinely Groundbreaking 9 - Outstanding, a Must Have 8 - Excellent, Recommended to Anyone 7 - Very Good, Deserves a Look 6 - Good, Qualified Recommendation 5 - Fair, Solid yet Unremarkable 4 - Some Merit, Requires Improvements 3 - Poor Execution, Potential Unrealized 2 - Very Little Appeal 1 - Not Recommended to Anyone
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