@SJohnRoss The first thing I looked for was CSIO. What a fantastic guide that was! CSWE & Thieves' World were a distant second in that era, IMO.

@SJohnRoss I'm only familiar with the JG versions. I vaguely recall when the 3rd edition was released much later, but I still had the old JG version and loved it so I didn't bother with the newer one... Might be interesting to compare them.

@SJohnRoss What qualities do you look for in city guides? I know you've been writing about your work on Hammondal for a while, so maybe it's all there.

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@SJohnRoss Interesting... The original JG edition was pretty chaotically put together, but - if your brain was wired like mine - it just seemed to pair perfectly with the chaos of the city itself.

@SJohnRoss No good guides after 1999?

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@SJohnRoss The S&S ed. sounds tempting but not at those collector prices... I'll have to stick to my old CSWE and beater CSIO that's what, 45 years old now or thereabouts? Not that I think I could work it into my current campaign anyway.

@SJohnRoss I've always been really interested in the idea of city books but haven't really scratched that itch much. The Thieves World anthologies and graphic novels were a huge influence on my gaming - I gravitated to making a city run by thief/assassin guilds a repeating feature of some campaigns. I never managed to get the supplement and only flipped through copies at Walden Books back in the day.