A Review of the Role Playing Game Supplement Fantasy City Block 01: Artisan’s Square

Fantasy City Block 01: Artisan’s Square by Dave Woodrum and Dan Smith is a generic role playing game supplement published by Fishwife Games.

The supplement is available as a 19-page PDF from DriveThruRPG for $3.50 but was purchased at a reduced price during a sale. One page is the front cover and one the front matter and Table of Contents. There are also two secondary PDFs, each a single page. One has a map of the block without labels, the other has a number of coloured tokens.

The Introduction starts with some prose before explaining what the supplement contains and what it does.

System Conversion explains that the supplement is intended to be system and edition generic. There are explanations of dice, effects, money, monsters and races.

Map Locations then describes the different locations. There are 15 different business in the block and each is given an overview, covering the goods or services provided, NPCs and relationships with other businesses in the area.

Following this are three d20 encounter tables for the block, one for day, one for evening and one for night. Another d20 table has rumours and gossip.

Finally, there are two copies of the map, one labelled, one not.

Fantasy City Block 01: Artisan’s Square in Review

The PDF lacks bookmarks and is long enough that these would have been useful. The Table of Contents only covers the major locations. Navigation could be a lot better. The text maintains a single column format and some minor errors were noticed. As well as the maps and tokens, there are a number of stock illustrations, most black and white but including a full-page version of the cover illustration. The block map is functional, though not stunning. There are also some blanks for conversion notes. Presentation is okay.

This supplement covers a block of a city with a number of businesses in it that characters are likely to use. There are a number of potential adventure hooks scattered through the supplement, which is useful. It should be relatively easy to drop the block into a location, though a bit of time will need to be spent converting it. Overall, this is a fairly useful little supplement for fleshing out a city. Fantasy City Block 01: Artisan’s Square can be found by clicking here.