Urban Dressing: Parks by Brian Liberge is a role playing game supplement published by Raging Swan Press for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. 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 13-page PDF from DriveThruRPG for $2.45 but was purchased at a reduced price as part of a special bundle. Two pages are the front and rear covers, one an ad, three the front matter, Contents and Foreword and one is the Open Game License. The PDF comes in two versions, one designed for print and high-end devices, the other for mobile and low-end devices.
The supplement is intended to create dressing for parks and consists of several options.
A: Characteristics and Appearance starts with some details on how modern parks are different from medieval ones. There are four main kinds of park; common, intended for general use, deer park, private and often enclosed hunting ground, garden, which is self-explanatory and public park, natural land within a city used for recreation. This is followed by a d100 table of different types of parks; each is a brief description using one of the four types, and has references to Urban Dressing: Shrines and Urban Dressing: Temples where a shrine or a temple is in the park.
B: Things to Stumble Upon is a d1100 list of things to find in the park that have probably been lost by other visitors.
C: Hooks, Complications and Opportunities has a d20 list of adventure hooks. A sidebar, Area Features, has some general features to find in a park, and the game effect, where appropriate, even if that’s just the DC to climb something.
D: NPCs is a list of ten NPCs to encounter in the park. Each is given a name, alignment, class and level, appearance, personality, mannerisms and hooks.
Urban Dressing: Parks in Review
The PDF is well bookmarked with everything but the sidebar linked. The Contents is less thorough but is hyperlinked. Navigation is good. The text maintains a two-column format and appeared to be free of errors. There are a couple of pieces of black and white stock art. Presentation is okay.
Compared to some of the entries in the Urban Dressing series, this one feels a little sparse. It’s basically a list of 100, very briefly described parks, 100 bits of junk to find on the ground and some NPCs and adventure hooks. The parks themselves are not really covered in enough detail, and would probably need some more tables to flesh them out. Urban Dressing: Parks is an okay but not much better supplement and it can be found by clicking here.
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