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This Old Town: Craft A Captivating Starting Town For Your D&D Adventure!
Episode 176
We continue to drive down deeper into our real-time worldbuilding experiment armed with the comments of our listeners.
In this episode, Tony, Chris, and Dave return to the conversation started in Episode 174 and begin to build out the town that will be the start of most adventures in our Boomtown Campaign Setting. Make sure to Join the Conversation!
1:55 Where are we now? We asked, you answered! Boomtown #1 is known as Gallow Springs!
3:40 What’s in our border town?
6:05 What’s NOT in the town? Religion and Churches, per our last episode.
9:35 Our archetype for Boomtown was Wyatt Earp’s Tombstone. So, what was actually there at the time?
12:15 Name the 110 saloons!
12:35 How small is a small town? Between Hommlet and Waterdeep.
16:10 The split between Uptown and Downtown and the Law.
19:55 The point of the Boomtowns: Recovering Tech – our “Gold Rush.”
22:06 Dueling and Gunfights: How Lawless is Gallow Springs?
29:30 The Haves and the Have Nots: The rich get richer!
31:00 Buying Magic in Gallow Springs?
38:50 Final Thoughts.
Published on 13 hours ago