City Builder Toolkit Lists & PnP Cards

CITY BUILDER TOOLKIT

This deck of 120 cards offers tools for collaboratively building a fantasy city setting, primarily for classic fantasy games (Godbound, 13th Age, Blades in the Dark). Using this you can create your own fantasy city for games which come with a default location (Swords of the Serpentine, Dishonored). It works in conjunction with other world building tools like Microscope or The Deck of Worlds. 

This includes the tables for all the card information and a Print & Play version of the deck. The text is shared as Creative Commons Share-Alike Attribution 4.0. The material here is not AI generated and permission is explicitly not given for generative AI use.

Side A of the Cards has three blocks:

The first 40 includes

• City Environment (Dimensional Crossroads, Glacier, Skyrealm)
• City Geography (Arboreal, Labyrinthine, Walled Districts)
• Threats & Disasters (Authoritarian Control, Mass Amnesia, Undead)

The next 30 includes

• Magic Sources (Dreams, Fossilized Faeries, Paradoxes) 
• Technology (Alien, Electropunk, Time of Revolutions)

The last 50 includes a set of details about magic, wizards, and arcane society which you can mix & match. 

Side B of the Cards has the backer, along with 120 different Unique Locations for your city. 

GMs can use this to generate a new city or entirely new setting. Even better, with the printed cards groups can use it to collaboratively build the world they want to play in. The City Builder Toolkit can be used in combination with the Faction Builder Toolkit to develop and flesh out your world. Also consider the Fantasy City Events deck and the Kingdom Events deck.  

Card art is by grandfailure (via Adobe Stock).