A Review of the Role Playing Game Supplement City Lights: 100 Urban Encounters

City Lights: 100 Urban Encounters by Cliff Dunn is a role playing game supplement published by ZealZaddy for use with Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition. As such, it is covered by the Open Game License and some parts are considered to be Open Game Content as a result.

The supplement is available as a 28-page PDF for $1.99 from DriveThruRPG. One page is the front cover, one the front matter, one the Contents and one the Open Game License.

The first two pages of content are taken up by some links to Free City of Vadashar material, a sidebar, Welcome to the Free City of Vadashar, that is duplicated from other supplements and gives background and history of the city, its present and future.

The first page of content explains that the supplement contains a variety of encounters for the city, intended to breathe life into it, and of many different types.

The encounters then follow. Some of these are comparatively brief ones with no real meaning, other than background colour, or a meaning to be determined. Others are more like mini-encounters of different types, or meetings with NPCs covered in a bit more detail. Many of the supplements refer back to others in the Vadashar series, helping to tie them all together.

City Lights: 100 Urban Encounters in Review

The PDF is bookmarked with each page of encounters linked as well as other content. The Contents is to a similar level of depth and is hyperlinked. The text mostly follows a two-column format, with the exception of the first page of content which is single column, and appeared to be free of errors. There are a variety of colour illustrations, up to full page in size. Presentation is good.

Now, as it stands, this supplement can be used to make the Free City more interesting, and also help weave other supplements into play. Though it is definitely tied to Vadashar, many of the encounters can still be used in other appropriate city settings, and could perhaps also be used to tie the other Vadashar supplements to those settings with a bit of work. Not every encounter is easy to reuse, but some are, and they do cover an interesting range of types. City Lights: 100 Urban Encounters is a nice collection of urban encounters and it can be found by clicking here.