Need help with ideas for city

[tommynator]

Hi. Im making a RPG and im trying to find out what i shoud have in one of the main cities in the game. Do anyone have an idea for what i can put in the city?

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[cleavinghammer]

It will depend on what plot elements will be happening in your city, but here are some general ones:

Shop district / Artisan's district (Upgrades, items, and fetch quests)

Town hall (Nicely decorated area, plot-important quests)

A river running through the town and a harbor (exotic shops, travel to other areas)

A sewer system (if there's an infiltration/exfiltration quest)

Bad part of town (rundown buildings, neutral hostile thieves, put the Thieves and Assassin's guilds here)

Temples (nicely decorated area, healing/ressurection, quests)

Walls and gates (Defend the city)

Graveyard (placed out of the way, necromantic quests)

Food shops (healing items, place these everywhere)

What else will you need?

 

[Drunken_Jackal]

If you need a place for the main city, make it somewhere accessible. Not much creeps or enemies since its a big city. Big cities mostly exceed economically and have a good cost of living. So make it look good, be accessible and make the city not meant for everyone.
You also need those essentials like blacksmiths, markets, etc. Good locations for it would be near the sea/ocean so it would be the fishing capital or somewhere where there are many resources. Maybe put some schools, Colosseum, Barracks for defense, also divide the city into different parts, each having a corresponding function or specialty like one part is the economically exceeding part, one is the barracks, defense area, one is the residential, one is the castle, etc.

 

[cleavinghammer]

Heh, forgot about the inevitable arena...

Also, a magic district, kept out of the way in case of accidents (same goes for the alchemists).

Depending on how well-integrated everybody is, have every separate race in their own districts (elves close to the magicians, dwarves near the blacksmiths/alchemists...)

 

[tommynator]

Thanks guys. That's just what i needed

I give you both +rep and thanks alot
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Edit

I have to give you blindman the reputation later. It sais that i have to give out more reputation before i can rep you again.

 

[Drunken_Jackal]

No problem, spread some first.

 

[Dawn Whitelighter]

you should include a notorious spot.. like a thieve's guild or a bandit camp just beside the city.. another is a mine and logging station for more realistic feel..

 

[Drunken_Jackal]

The mine could be a part of a mountain city. Thieve's guild maybe in a sinister place or a forest. Logging also in a forest.