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City State of the Invincible Overlord by Patrick Lawinger,Bob Bledsaw,Bill Owen. Fief by Lisa J. Thread starter Messageboard Golem Start date Jan 1, Messageboard Golem First Post. The City of the Invincible Overlord includes all the original maps, plus a much expanded and updated softcover book detailing the denizens of the City State, its locations, adventure ideas and NPCs. The book will also incorporate material from the classic Judges Guild product Wraith Overlord, which details the sewers and dungeons beneath the famed City State, as well as material from Pegasus magazines. Note: This is NOT a boxed set. It ended up being released as a hardcover. There is to be a boxed set for the Wilderlands setting. City State of the Invincible Overlord is the D20 conversion of the in famous Judges Guild product.
The D20 conversion editing was done by Scott Greene, of Tome of Horrors I and II fame. The book has Black and White illustrations with several pages of gridded greyscale maps on high gloss paper stock. It has pages of material, including indexes that help you find Streets and locations. There is an NPC index created by a fan available as a download at the Judges Guild website. There is also a fantastic "sister" city done by another fan set in the Wilderlands area called Altanis. That city, like CSIO City State of the Invincible Overlord , are easily portable into any campaign. The hardest thing a DM needs to do to allow this is to forget the history provided and write their own. This book is the best write-up I have seen since the boxed set for the City of Waterdeep. It has everything. Chapter 1 gives an overview of the various organizations within the city as well as the game statistics for the city itself, which has an average population of 80, Not only does it give an overview, but you also get a sense of each organizations overall personality.
On page five you also get a table breaking down military unit sizes with a "Regular Army title" and a "Noble Army title". This is because there isn't only one social class, so each societal part of the city gets their own social level ranking and then a table showing how these social ranks measure up to the other social ranks. Three examples are the Nobles, the guilds, and the Merchants. There are six social classifications in all. This chapter also introduces their version of the skills Gambling, Interrogation, and Torture, along with helpful tables listing DC's and DC modifiers. There are also two PrC's introduced in this chapter. A 5 level Agent of the Black Lotus PrC and a 10 level Beggar class. Personally, I like them both, they are great for adding story flavor to this city and I have several plans in how to utilize them as NPC's.
I do not foresee any players being excited to play one. They are not nearly powerful enough. Chapter 3 is probably my favorite chapter in the whole book. It is the Crime and Punishment Chapter. There are 18 tables in this chapter to help the DM determine the severity of a crime, the punishment of a crime, the attitude of the Judge, how the attitude of the judge effects their ruling, and even how the weather will effect the judges mood and therefore the sentence. It also has tables detailing the punishments, including methods of torture and how much they will hurt as well as how survivable they are. It also has tables to determine Bribery amounts and results.
All in all, a very wonderful chapter that I am very eager to use in my game. For example, the City Folk Encounter Table breaks encounters down by Hierarchy versus their Social Level and also gives you a class level range and how much money they are carrying on their person. They also have encounter tables for specific City Quarters, an Unusual Encounters table which are monsters you could run into, a special encounters table which details events such as getting spit upon to running into a lamplighter. If you run into a town crier there are sub-tables telling what the town crier is saying, from a call to arms to the birth of a prince. There are also a couple of tables that illustrate the cosmopolitan nature of this city. There are at least 21 races a person can expect to run into, several of which are unique to the Wilderlands, so DM replacements may be necessary.
Chapter 5 is a very short chapter that gives you statistics for common items such as chests and doors in the CSIO. It also gives brief explanations of how the City stays peaceful and other important information about presenting the street life of the city. Chapter 6 is another short chapter made up entirely of tables for rolling random rumors and legends of the CSIO. Chapter 7 is a meaty chapter giving you street by street breakdowns of possible encounters. Chapter 8 is another impressive chapter. It then goes on to detail additional locations for the DM to use. Locations such as temples, 4 or 5 of which are given far greater detail in later chapters, numerous Inns and Taverns, Candle Makers, a Phrenologist, Carpenters, Glassblowers, a Bear Trainer, Saddleshops, Sail Maker, Racketeer, a Pet Shop, etc All including basic NPC info.
This is where that NPC download I have mentioned comes in handy. This chapter runs from page 47 to page Chapter 9 is the first chapter detailing what is called the Wraith Overlord, Beneath the City State. Chapter 10 details the City Jail. It also gives the history of a number of the individuals who are imprisoned here. Which is where they throw the insane. Chapters details temples, their priests, their treasures, there lay-outs, and where they are connected through the sewers. Lots of good adventure seeds in these chapters. Of course there have been tons of adventure ideas throughout the whole book! Chapter 14 details the Thieves Guild. Nuff' said. Chapter 15 covers what is called the Despot Ruins. The ruins are the areas where two ancient fortresses once stood. Not terribly detailed, but I consider that a good thing, since I have several old modules and Dungeon adventures I can use to add the detail I want.
Chapter 16 covers another temple. The temple of the Spider-god. No, this isn't a rip off of a certain abyssal spider demoness. This temple is definitely about spiders. Lots of them, some of them very deadly to low level characters CR3 spiders. Chapter 17 covers another very interesting area. However, I am not going to provide any details of it here. It is best to make it as hard as possible for players to know anything about this. Chapter 18 covers something called the Watchtower. It is a place that could easily become a location repeatedly visited by PC's. That's all I'll say about this place as well. Chapter 19 gives detail about the Patrician Theater's lower levels.
The upper level was detailed at location in Chapter 8. More secret stuff I don't want to tip off players to. Chapter 20 details the School of Ancient Knowledge. Again the above ground portion was detailed in Chapter 8. This school caters to anyone who is seeking any kind of knowledge. Appendix 1 gives details of the most important NPC's in the city, namely the Invincible Overlord himself, the Grand Vizier, and a certain NPC with many tentacles hanging where his mouth would be. Appendix 2 details magic items introduced in this book.
So what is my overall opinion of this book? I loved reading this. I am psyched about all of the story ideas this book gave me. I am actually eager to sit down and bring this city to life. I am glad this city is so campaign portable because my current campaign is based in Erde. My last campaign was based in the Wilderlands. So I still get to unleash the wonders of this city in my Erde campaign! Or I could use it in Greyhawk, or even Ravenloft, since there are a fair number of undead in this city, and I could easily make the Overlord a Darkpower of Ravenloft. Plus this comes with a rich, old, campaign world known as the Wilderlands! This book, combined with the Players Guide to the Wilderlands, the boxed set coming out in a few months, plus with the wonderful fan downloads at judgeguild.
net, make for a very rich and basic campaign world, with at least 4 more support products coming out! Plus the Caverns of Thracia are already out in stores now. This is just an awesome product! Any DM who wants good cities to put in their campaign world needs to get this book. It is hardbound with nice black and white illustrations throughout, an excellent NPC spreadsheet at Judgesguild. net, plus well written locations that just gets a DMs creative ideas bursting while reading them. GreenPiece First Post. com , offering official and fan material as free downloads. Some of the official downloads may be password protected see the credits page of the book to get the password. MonsterMash First Post. Since then an updated version was released by Mayfair Games which was not liked by Judges Guild fans for the changes made to the setting, even though it was a reasonable product.
This is the first D20 version of the setting. The feel of the city is classic Sword and Sorcery like Howard's Shadizar the Wicked or Leiber's Lankhmar and it'd be easy to imagine the Mouser and Fafhard as encounters here. This release incorporates the Wraith Overlord product which detailed the city sewers and underground, that was a separate release from Judges Guild. As this was originally written by Scott Fulton there is a bit of difference in the writing and level of detail which still shows in the revised version, but this is not a problem to the usability of the product. The City The city itself has a feel like medieval Byzantium or Venice and is far from politically correct, with slavery, houris and the Park of Obscene Statues.
Most races can be encountered there including Orcs, Goblins and Trolls as the focus is on making money, and the overall alignment is Lawful Evil. The Overlord maintains order with the guards, constables and his secret police, the Black Lotus. One thing should be noted, not every location is detailed and DM are encouraged to develop their own material and change things to fit to their own campaign. The city layout is much more like a medieval city than is usual for gaming products, with densely packed buildings within the city walls and winding streets and alleys rather than a simple grid. This adds a lot to the feel of the place for me. Generally most gods seem to have worshippers, with nine temples detailed including those of Harmakhis, Odin, Thoth, and the Spider God. The temples all have adventure hooks attached with plenty of scope to build a campaign round them.
It would be easy to use unlabelled buildings or any of the existing temples for different gods to support a specific campaign. The entries for locations tend to give the statistics needed to run an encounter there rather than every detail as it is assumed that combat will not be the main reason that players visit most locations, but there is usually enough there if a fight does result. Encounter tables are provided with specific ones for many streets as well as the standard citywide encounter tables in chapter. There is a rumour table for the entire city replacing the original's rumours at each location, with these providing plenty of scope as adventure seeds.
The most important NPCs are in an appendix, but these are unlikely to be encountered by players in most campaigns, generally the NPC stats are at the location where they will be met. There is a download of generic NPC available for download which couldn't be fitted into the book. The Sewers and underground The underground of the city is detailed with this providing a set of adventure hooks and possibilities. There are encounter tables for this area as well including thieves and amazons. The area covered is pretty wide including the city jail, the major temples, the thieves guild, despot ruins, patrician theatre and the tomb of Cynges-leah Dirhan.
Many of the locations interconnect allowing wide ranging adventures in the darkness beneath the city. Appearance and production This is a hardcover book with a clean internal layout featuring black and white interior art. The binding appears to be of decent quality which is important with a product that will be used for a substantial amount of time, the paper is semi-gloss allowing notes to be made if desired. Artwork is by a number of artists, with a Rick Sardinha cover and interior art by Brian Le Blanc, David Day and others. Most of the art relates to the setting and text and helps to add flavour. A double sided map is attached inside the back cover with additional maps being in the closing pages of the book. The map is on glossy paper. The maps are by Ed Bourelle and very well done and are a major positive for me. Rules There is relatively little in the way of rules content in this product.
There are only two new classes, both really for NPC's, these being the Agent of the Black Lotus PrC and the Beggar NPC class. There are rules and a new skill for Gambling, and a set of rules for Social Levels. There is a chapter with rules for crime and punishment, these being tailored for the LE aligment of the city and can be substituted with a different system if the DM wishes. Generally a higher social level helps to avoid or reduce the punishment recieved. There are encounter tables which could be adapted for other urban adventuring environments, with street specific and city wide tables. There are 15 creatures included in an appendix at the back with two templates. All of these are used in the setting, but some of the creatures and the templates can be easily used outside the CSIO. An appendix contains the new magic items referred to in the book. Web support There is a substantial amount of support for the product on the web including errata, additional material and discussion on the Necromancer Games boards.
the four and five level dungeons from the original are only available as downloads Some of the content is slightly loose in its connections Overall I give this a 9. This really is a great product in my opinion, I will admit to a certain amount of nostalgia colouring my view, but even so the product can readily be used on any campaign with large cities. Last edited: Mar 22, trancejeremy First Post. City of the Invincible Overlord good! I never owned the original version from Judges Guild, but a few years ago I did get a copy of the "Revised" edition. I think this was after TSR and Judges Guild had their spat. At any rate, it was a very early product, according to the date in it, and it showed. Bizzare layout, weird rules, awful typesetting. But it had a certain charm, and the original literally had s of locations mentioned, along with stats for characters at those locations. The new City State of the Invincible Overlord CSIO from Necromancer pretty much keeps all the locations and NPCs intact, as well as some of the rules, but brings the layout and presentation up to date.
A little bit of political correctness has also seeped in. Though maybe not PCness so much as tact. I'll go into this later. It also apparently adds in items from another Judges Guild product, "Wraith Overlord", the original of which I know nothing about, but apparently was a book of dungeons and locations beneath various places in the city. The City There's actually not much background on the city itself. About a page of history. It's set in the Wilderlands setting from Judge's Guild, but doesn't mention anything about it at all, so you are pretty much on your own unless you own the "Player's Guide to the Wilderlands" which I bought, but never received, one of the perils of buying mail order or the upcoming boxed set. Basically, there are two halves to the city. One is essentially from the original CSIO, or so keyed locations in the city itself. Shops, taverns, brothels, etc. The original CSIO just had a sentence or two for most, along with stats for some NPCs sometimes 1, sometimes more.
The stats were in tabular format. Class, level, Alignment, ability scores, hit points, weapon, treasure. This book expands upon the description somewhat. Instead of a line, most locations get at least a paragraph. Stats are pretty much the same. Class, level, ability scores, but in some cases, they've given a relevant skill rank or two as well. To be honest, a full blown stat block would have been a lot more helpful. I realize that would have made the book longer, but OTOH, the book does have rather big margins. Smaller margins and more stats would have been much better.
It would also have been nice if they added a physical description. On the plus side, many of the NPCs have nicknames or titles epithets? Sir Batan the Stout, Hertogan the Spur, Culman the Cabalist, Anoletine the Bore, Vikan the Violent, etc, etc, etc The locations are really varied, everything from accountants to wigs. Lots of taverns, around 50 of them. Some are apparently allusions to classic fantasy literature. For instance, there is a "Silver Eel" tavern. Also, the original author was presumably a Queen fan - one of the brothels is called "Naughty Nannies". Actually, given the tackiness in other areas of the product, I'm surprised there are only 2 or 3 brothels listed. I've actually had a lot of fun comparing the original entries to the new ones. For the most part, they really have improved on the original. Except on one area - gods. In the original CSIO, actual gods were NPCs in some of the locations.
In this, you get that "avatar" stuff, which I really don't like. Back in the old days, gods were gods, there was none of this new fangled "avatar" stuff. It's very very 2E-ish. Which is not terribly surprising, since Necromancer Games' stuff really does have more of a 2E feel than anything else Wraith Overlord The 2nd part of the city is called "Wraith Overlord". It's essentially the underneath areas for a lot of the city, but doesn't detail the entire undercity though there is a map of the sewers.
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Again the above ground portion was detailed in Chapter 8. Personally, I'm going to use it as Rel Astra, Greyhawk's second biggest city. It's Lawful Evil in a Roman Empire or mafia way, not a totalitarian or psycho "let's kill everyone and end the world" way. Nuff' said. May 13, Charles Dunwoody.
Anyway, I was curious as to whether or not they would make it into the new CSIO. Definitely keep the Invincible Overlord's advisors and secret police. This looks like one of the very few current d20 RPG products I will pick up. Science Fiction Video Games by Neal Roger Tringham. I loved reading this.
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