Tabletop Adventures Bits of the Boulevard, Podreczniki RPG, Tabletop Adventures
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Writers:
Artists:
Deborah Balsam
Daniel Brakhage
Cover Artwork by
Elizabeth Brakhage
Gillian Pearce
Nicholas Brakhage
Christopher Field
Original Interior Artwork by
Kathleen Keeler
Jesus and Javier Carmona
Michael Kessler
Christine Griffin
Derek Kupper
Rodney Lucas
Border Artwork by
Mark Potter
Daniel Brakhage
Vicki Potter
Martin Ralya
Cover Layout by
Tyler Sherman
Edward W edig
John Walsh
Christopher Welsh
Published by Tabletop Adventures, LLC
Copyright 2005
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Table of Contents
Introduction
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How to Use This Resource
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Bits of the Boulevard
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Shards of the Street
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Walls and Gates
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A Bit About Cities
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Index
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Bits of the Boulevard - Cards
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Introduction
Welcome!
Welcome to Bits of the Boulevard™, Tabletop Adventures’ first city product. Cities can be a lot of work to develop
and we hope to make your job easier. For Bits of the Boulevard we have found writers with a broad range of
medieval and fantasy writing exper ience so that we can repr esent a diver se r ange of settings. Each of us have some
ideas of what to put in a medieval fantasy city but all of us together are able to cover things that, individually, we
might not have considered. We have taken care to provide descriptions that can be used in virtually any game that
takes place in a quasi-European medieval fantasy setting without "clashing" with the feel or setting of your existing
campaign. However, in those rare cases that something seems out of place, either discard the description or change
it as you have need. These descriptions are for your use in your game and you are free to modify them to keep your
game fun and exciting for you and your players. I hope that you can find plenty of material here to augment your
players' imaginations and to stimulate your own ideas for adventures.
Harried Game Masters, or How We Came to Write This Book
So, I hear you ask, “Why write a book like this?” Well, I’m glad you asked. We wr ote it for all those Game
Masters who have ever lamented not having the time that they wanted to spend on their game because those
unforgiving intrusions to gaming (life, work, family, school) interfered. We wrote it for all those gamemasters who
have come home from a hard day of work or just finished a grueling finals week and had friends call up and say,
"Hey, let's play tonight. I had a rough day and I want to kill something." For all of you who need more then 24
hours in a day, welcome to Tabletop Adventures’ line of products for the Harried Game Master.
We here at TTA believe that description is a very important part of game-mastering and that vivid descriptions can
make a world or an adventure come alive. However, we have noticed that the more rushed or frazzled a GM
becomes, the more mechanical the game tends to be. So we have written a book that we’ve always wished to ha ve,
one that would have made our lives easier over the years. Tabletop Adventures’ “Harried Game Master” products
are designed to be products that you can buy today and play tonight. We have taken care to make them flexible so
they ca n be used in virtually any campaign without changing its feel or details. T hey are to help you, the Game
Master, make the maximum use of the limited time you have available.
This tool provides the GM with a way to stimulate the characters’ senses and the players’ imaginations without
having to use game-changing information. The descriptions can give players a “feel” for a situation, a better image
of what is happening or what their characters are experiencing without all of those experiences leading directly to
combat or treasure. They are intended to enhance role-playing by encouraging character building, reaction, and
interaction. These Bits of the Boulevard, and all the accompanying material, are made for you, to ease the life of the
Harried Game Master.
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Enjoy, have fun, and create fun for others!
The Evil Over lord and his minions…er…I mean, the good people at Tabletop Adventures
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How to Use This Resource
Another consideration is that, while most Bits do not
add encounter s, in some situations a minor encounter
is possible. In those cases, (if you are using the D20
System™,) you may well find it handy to use the
resource "Everyone Else" by E.N. Publishing. This is
an excellent and handy resource for providing the
GM stats for "everyone else".
Or, What in the World are
Shards and Bits?
Shards and Bits should be viewed as small pieces of
an adventure. Think of the archeologist, collecting
little pieces of pottery and then fitting them together
into a fascinating whole. Bits are tiny pieces of
description that can be thrown in anywhere to provide
“color” or add a little excitement to what might
otherwise be a dull spot. Shards are longer and more
elaborate, meant to be selected rather than added
randomly. They may describe a certain area or
specific thing, or particular facets that do not fit well
in a random table such as times or seasons.
Printing This Product
These pages can be printed out on regular paper.
However, the final pages are formatted to be printed
on card stock. As cards, they can be shuffled and
drawn randomly during play or sorted ahead of time,
with the GM selecting certain bits for use and placing
them with the appropriate map or other materials. If
you don’t want to work with cards, you can roll
randomly and read the description to the players, or
write the appropriate number on the GM's map and
refer to it when the characters arrive there.
One thing to remember in using this is that we try to
provide you products that will add a bit of drama to
your game. Therefore, delivery is important. The way
you choose to deliver the descriptions that are
provided can have a tremendous effect on the
subsequent playability of the situation involved.
Upcoming Products from TTA
As with our previous products in the Bits of
Darkness™ series, these Bits of the Boulevard™
have been numbered so that a GM can roll percentile
dice or pick a card to randomly generate a dash of
description for an adventure. An Index is provided in
case a Bit is needed to fit a particular situation, and
we have included many Shards for specific situations,
conditions, or locations within the city. These all can
help you flesh out areas of a favorite city or give you
an "instant" description for those occasions when
your players go "where no-one has gone before" and
you don't yet have a clue what is there because you
didn't expect them to go that way.
Be watching for the next product from Tabletop
Adventures™: “Bits of Wilderness: Into the
Wildwood,” which will bring you descriptions for
drama and suspense as your adventurers venture into
the darkness and mystery of the untamed woods.
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for more information. As always, if you have any
comments or suggestions please send them to the
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These descriptions need not be followed verbatim. As
GM, you should feel free to adapt them however you
need in order to use them to greatest effect. In some
instances they may even give you ideas for additional
adventures for your players. These Bits are for
whatever you want! If a piece sparks your
imagination (or those of your players) and you want
to build on it, then go for it.
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