What’s Inside

This 80-page full-color softcover book features:

• 100 engaging NPCs across 19 categories, including artisans, assassins, guards, merchants, musicians, nobles, priests, and everyone else you’d encounter in the city

• 10 fully detailed Heroes & Villains, complete with backstories, personalities, quest hooks, and unique magic items

• 5 new weapons, 1 new spell, 1 new vehicle, 1 new contagion, 1 new alchemical recipe

• 11 new magic items

• 80+ Example Encounters and story hooks to help you create urban adventures

• Absolutely no AI-generated content

Encounter Roles & Unique Creatures

A merchant and an artisan shouldn’t have the same stat block. That’s why each stat block within this book is unique and engaging. NPCs are given special powers and abilities so that when your adventuring party is facing them down, they’ll feel as if they are actually fighting a master assassin, the royal gardener, or a drunkard in the bar.

Not only does each creature have special abilities, they are also given defined roles to enhance your combat encounters. These roles help the Game Master create incredible and exciting encounters, offering suggestions on how to utilize each NPC before the encounter has even started.

Encounter Roles include Artillery, Brute, Controller, Leader, Lurker, Skirmisher, Soldier, and Spellcaster.

In addition, some creatures span multiple roles and have a Hybrid Role, allowing them to work in multiple roles even during an encounter.

Example Encounters

Throughout the book are 82 pre-built Example Encounters that span levels 1 to 20, so you can quickly grab an encounter and run it for your table.

These examples provide the encounter’s difficulty, a mix of stat blocks and encounter roles, and a short plot hook that you can expand into larger adventures.

Pages of NPCs

This book features over 100 city-themed NPCs spanning CR 1/8 to CR 20. So whether your party has yet to defeat their first bandit or they are taking on the gods, there are appropriate rivals and enemies they can encounter in the city.

Broken into 19 categories, you can easily flip through the book and find the stat block that you need immediately. Each category features between 4 to 8 NPCs spread across multiple challenge ratings, so you always have someone you can use, regardless of party level.

The categories are: Adventurers, Artisans, Assassins, Circus, Courtiers, Guards, Inventors, Knights, Mages, Magistrates, Merchants, Monsters, Musicians, Nobility, Palace, Priests, Tavern, Thieves, and Vagrants.

Heroes & Villains

Of course, a city isn’t just stocked with crafters and merchants. There are forceful personalities and powerful villains that seek to control the city.

That’s why we provide 10 fully detailed Heroes & Villains, complete with intricate backstories, personalities, quest hooks, and unique magic items for each one.

These Heroes & Villains include an assassin, tinkerer, crime lord, captain of the guard, an urban druid, and more!

International Shipping

We are happy to provide international shipping with two options available:

1. Our Stock. We will ship your order from the USA. This comes with an increased shipping cost but is good if you are ordering additional items, like the Tool Craft Recipe Deck or soft enamel pins. You are responsible for any import duty.

2. Direct Print. We use an international printer who will produce a new book and ship it to you. This comes with cheaper shipping cost, but there may be minor differences in printed goods from our books depending on the printers used near you.

To select one of these options, under shipping either select “Direct Print & Ship” or “USPS - International Shipping”.

If you want to order multiple physical items and live outside the USA, feel free to reach out to us so we can provide you the cheapest shipping options possible.