FT – Fort Myers by Frank Schmidt is a free role playing game supplement published by Adventures in Filbar. This is in the FT series which describe various locations in the Filbar setting, in this case in Fartook in Pangia, and is an essentially generic supplement for the Filbar setting.
This is a nine-page PDF that is available for free from DriveThruRPG. One page is the front cover and one and a half pages have three stock photos intended to illustrate the settlement.
The first page gives some background on Fort Myers, which was constructed in a narrow pass through some mountains to protect the civilised lands and is the furthest outpost of civilisation in its direction, as well as being a major trading post. The settlement is surrounded by a spiked log palisade which has been treated with a fire-retardant fluid.
This partially goes onto the next page, but most of that is taken up by descriptions of the two gatehouses, one facing into the wildlands and the other in the civilised regions.
The settlement itself has five sectors; colour coded for reference. A list of the buildings in each sector is given, together with the primary NPC that can be found there.
About half a page is taken up by a labelled colour map of Fort Myers, which looks as if it may have been done in Cityographer from Inkwell Ideas.
Another page is taken up by eight d12 tables that can be used to make individual citizens stand out. The final page of content is a d30 table of random encounters for the settlement.
FT – Fort Myers in Review
The PDF lacks bookmarks but is short enough that it doesn’t need them. Presentation is okay. The text maintains a single column format and a number of errors were noticed. Illustrations are three colour stock photos, the colour map and a piece of black and white art. Presentation is okay.
Fort Myers isn’t as elaborately detailed as some of the locations in the FT range and this is deliberate. It is described as a skinned down town for problems to be added to, simply a collection of names and places. It is generic enough in location that it could be easily dropped into a borderland region and lacks stats so can be used with most systems. FT – Fort Myers is not the best in the FT series, but it does what it is intended to do, provide a briefly-detailed location, and it can be downloaded for free by clicking here.
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