This premium freebie is a 36-page preview of Skirmisher Publishing's popular and Adamantine-bestselling 240-page City Builder: A Guide to Designing Communities! 

City Builder: A Guide to Designing Communities is a writer's resource specifically designed to help storytellers create exciting and compelling urban areas and other sorts of communities and places within them. It is a universal sourcebook that can support the needs of any ancient, Dark Ages, Middle Ages, Renaissance, or fantasy fiction or role-playing game setting. 

This comprehensive, fully-illustrated book includes: 

* An Introduction that describes the scope of the book and how to use the material it contains;

* A chapter on Communities that examines the Characteristics of Communities, including thorps, hamlets, villages, towns, cities, military bases, and plantations, along with regional and racial influences on their development; Buildings; the Physical Characteristics of Cities, including fortifications, lighting, and conditions on, above, and below city streets; and Disasters.

* Chapters devoted to 10 specific sorts of places, including Craftsman Places, Entertainment Places, Professional Places (with a sidebar on Guilds that discusses organization and regulations and includes tables for random guild generation), Tradesman Places, Mercantile Places, Service Places, Scholarly Places, Religious Places, Governmental Places, and Underworld Places.

 * Descriptions of 85 different sorts of places, including eight created specifically for this book that have never before appeared elsewhere.

* Two to three Adventure Hooks tying in with each described sort of place.