Let's make a town

[Emperor Demonking]

Let's make a town together.

We'll beghin with voting.

How big should the "town" be: 4 small town, 1 large

Small town

Who runs the town: 1 guild, 1 mayor, 1 council, 1 monster, 1 tyranical mage

[Darke]

large

with a pie shop

and a kleptomaniacs guild.

[Rodgin]

I'm always a fan of small towns.

Big enough for decent trade, small enough to be personable.

[Zenos]

Small town, abit like a village in the french counrtyside.

Led by a councill of CG warlocks.

[Emperor Demonking]

We're still voting on the size.

What runs the town, mayor, council, guilds, tyrants...
Guilds

[Rodgin]

Guilds?

What about a monstrous influence? Like....a bugbear tribe that runs a mountain pass. The town can run trade properly without paying them off.

[BisectedBrioche]

I'd go for a small rural town with a population just large enough for the leaders to have a formal air to them, ran by a Mayor elected from one of the guilds' leaders.

[Zenos]

I say a small rural town ruled by a tyrannical mage.

[Learnedguy]

I'll go for a small town on a peninsula

[Emperor Demonking]

Where abouts is the town:
Near water

[Zenos]

In high mountains or a landscape remniscent of the bocage.

[BisectedBrioche]

Near a forest with a stream running through both it and the town.

[Rodgin]

A nice mix of them.

On a peninsula, cut off by mountains, with a stream and forest.

[Zenos]

A nice mix of them.

On a peninsula, cut off by mountains, with a stream and forest.

Sounds good to me.

[Emperor Demonking]

Yeah, seems good to me.

[BisectedBrioche]

I also feel it seems good.

[Rodgin]

So....

Size: Small Town
Population: ???
Where: On a peninsula, cut off by mountains. Coastline available, but cut out of the woods, with a stream for fresh water.

Ruling authority: Still debatable.

[Animefunkmaster]

Small town, I second the monsterious trade.

I request a diplomancer of sorts (Thrallherd), who is claiming to be a god sent down to the material plane, or a son of a god, or some such thing. He should start a cult, there should be ritual sacrifice to make magic items for low low prices, and then a few members should raise the newly sacrificed into an undead army. This army should be used for underground farming and mining of raw materials... essentially producing Walmart, except more neutral.

[BisectedBrioche]

How's this for a political structure;

• 1 Mayor, elected from any member of the population
• Several administrators in charge of policing a group of guilds with similar functions
• A head of each guild.
• Each guild has its own command structure
• A police force which answers to the mayor and administrators

Guild Groups (each one answering to an administrator) could be;

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Warriors Guilds
Fighter's Guild
Theives Guild (using rogue skills for legitimate purposes)
etc

Production Guilds
Farmers Guild (both arable and livestock)
Minor/Smelter's Guild
Lumberjack's Guild
etc

Craftsmen Guilds
Armourer's Guild
Carpinter's Guild
Baker's Guild
Builder's Guild
etc

Service Guilds
Mage's Society
Messenger/Runner's guild
Merchant's Guild
etc

Illegal Guilds*
Theives' Guild (using rogue skills for illegitimate purposes)
Assassin's Guild
etc

*In this case the administrator's job would be to shut the guilds down

[GoC]

Ruled by an evil mage.
I hate guilds.

[Goats_o_Mjolnir]

Ruled by a Dragon disguised as the mayor in one giant game of Xorvintaal(spelling?) from MM5

[tahu88810]

It should be ruled a doppelganger (or other shapeshifting creature) who is an evil mage, disguised as the leader of one of the guilds.
A council (made up of all the other guild leaders) advises and obeys him.

[Zenos]

Wait a little. The townpeople are in fact ruled by a Ctonic hive mind burried beneath the town, sleeping away the centuries in a sealed tomb. This can also be a plot hook...

[smart thog]

The town is ruled by communist gnomes (just for the heck of it), who are opposed by the merchants guild, long since forced underground. The meeting place is directly under a potion shop run by a favored soul named larry and a sorcerer named eve, and they intentionally undercut prices so they fail to make a profit, while making money by charging a toll on the underground river, which they use to fund their potion shop, secretly made not to work on communists, by using a mcCarthy spell. (is this is offensive, I am sorry. I just threw out ideas)