By John S. (repost from RPGNow.com), May 23, 2003.
I ordered the Visira PDF at RPGnow.com for $10, which is about 130 pages detailing a single city.
I have read half of it and so far it seems well worth the money. It is a fairly interesting and unique city
with an evil bent but I think making it unique and interesting comes at the expense of generic and easily
insertable (despite the designers claim otherwise - neighboring geographic features play significantly into
its current shape and outlook). If you want a fairly (but not completely) detailed city from scratch and have
no preconceptions of how you want it then you could use as is. If you want a city that meets certain
expectations you will have to modify Visira, and possibly quite substatially, depending how far your vision
differs from the designers.
I personally had a pretty detailed preconception of the city I wanted and will have to modify Visira in a
number of ways. Not that their design is bad in anyway, it is just different. However, many things I have
seen so far I liked so much that I am modifying my city to be more like Visira.
John S.
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