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Smallharbour
🕑 Added 2022-10-05 15:41:37 +0000 UTCSmallharbour is a fortified settlement at the mouth of the Doggerel River which forms a… small harbour. The town’s growth and curtain walls have broken it up into several sections: The Manor at the heart of the city with its own docks and warehouses; Old Town to the immediate south of the manor with the main gates; Newall (New Walls) to the west of Old Town centred around the pentagonal temple of the fisher god; Newall Docks attached to Newall; Northside beyond Newall (with its own docks again); and the unfortified Doggerel Village on the other side of the river which is in turn split in two, with a farming & milling village across the bridge from Old Town, and a fishing village to the north with lots of smaller docks and the fortified lighthouse.
Because of the name of the river, Smallharbour hosts a number of poets and many would be lyricists – with regular poetry festivals and events where the locals practically bludgeon each other with bad rhymes and horrific versification. Walking into a tavern on any night, one is likely to find two to three would-be-bards (usually fisherfolk and farmers) extolling the wonders or their free verse.
(For those making use of this map – personal or commercial – feel free to edit the scale marker to something more appropriate for the tone of your games.)
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Comments
Nate Finch
This is gorgeous! I needed something almost exactly like this for my current campaign, and ended up using a generator and then twiddling with it by hand. But of course, this is sooo much prettier. I have "Old Port" instead of "Old Town" but it's funny how similar they are - I have a town split by a river, except in mine, it's a large man-made lake, so there's a dam and the river is flowing out of the body of water. Anyway, this is gorgeous, nice wrk as always.
Dyson Logos
I drew this one on stream. I started with a rough coastline and just built it bit by bit from there.
Tanager
This is awesome! When making city maps like this, do you start with something generated and work from there? Would love some ideas on how to get that inital "shape" of the town and areas!
