''Towns of the Outlands'' is a 1981 role-playing game supplement published by
Midkemia Press
Midkemia Press is an American game company that produced fantasy role-playing game supplements in the early 1980s. Today it exists as a rights holder for its principal campaign setting, the land of Midkemia.
History
In the mid-1970s, Conan La Mott ...
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Authors
Richard A. Edwards, Wesley M. Divin, Russell Young. All of Olympia, WA, and members of the Olympia Simulation Gaming Association in the early 1980s when this book was written. They attended its release at Origins ‘81 in San Mateo, CA.
Contents
''Towns of the Outlands'' includes:
QUM-AL-NASHIR, a desert oasis designed by Wesley M. Divin.
WINTER CREEK, a smuggler’s cove designed by Russell Young.
BIRKA, a northern trading center designed by Richard A. Edwards.
OSWESTRY, a tribal hill fort designed by Richard A. Edwards.
MORRISON’S ROADHOUSE, a woodland crossroad by Wesley M. Divin.
GOLDCREST, a mining town by Russell Young.
With a wide variety of environments, The six town settings were designed to be individually set into any fantasy world setting.
Midkemia Press and author Raymond Feist, who edited Towns of the Outlands, also set these towns into their world of Midkemia.
Each town includes a detailed map and index.
Publication history
''Towns of the Outlands'' is the fourth supplement focusing on cities published by Midkemia Press.
Reception
Anders Swenson reviewed ''Towns of the Outlands'' for ''
Different Worlds
''Different Worlds'' was an American role-playing games magazine published from 1979 to 1987.
Scope
''Different Worlds'' published support articles, scenarios, and variants for various role-playing games including ''Dungeons & Dragons'', ''Rune ...
'' magazine and stated that "The reader may get the impression that I liked this game aid - it is very useful and has many well-done points. I was particularly pleased to find a compendium of small towns - because these are poorly represented in the FRP literature. I think that ''Towns of the Outlands'' is an excellent buy for any GM who runs an outdoor or overland game."
reviewed ''Towns of the Outlands'' in ''
The Space Gamer
''The Space Gamer'' was a magazine dedicated to the subject of science fiction and fantasy board games and tabletop role-playing games. It quickly grew in importance and was an important and influential magazine in its subject matter from the la ...
'' No. 45.
Kraft commented that "This is an excellent product and I highly recommend it to any FRP game master."
Translations
''Towns of the Outlands'' was published as ‘’Jenseits der Hügel’’ in German in 1988 by Verlag für Fantasy- und Science Fiction-Spiele.
References
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Fantasy role-playing game supplements
Midkemia Press
Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1981