Building a Fantasy City with City Works

[icosahedron]

Fascinating. This CityWorks sounds good. However, my main interest is modern/futuristic cities - I wonder if the same rules apply to modern city creation? If so, it might be worth an investment, OTOH it may need too much house-ruling.
I suspect that walls will be less important and roads more frequent. What other changes might there be? Will ground area per head of population differ with use of high-rise buildings, will 'docks' include rail, air and space ports, etc?

[Dyson Logos]

Fascinating! I think this is a great approach to city mapping. It's almost like rolling up a character and allocating points to various attribItutes.

Thanks. I like it a lot and have used it in the past to build cities for D&D games. Figured it would be worth actually posting the full process to show off Mike Mearls' great work.

Fascinating. This CityWorks sounds good. However, my main interest is modern/futuristic cities - I wonder if the same rules apply to modern city creation?

I don't think it would work all that well. While the number of roads would still be pretty accurate for most cities as long as you remember that a "road" in this mapping system is a major interstate type road, and not a typical road... but the reality is that a lot of modern cities have been through much stronger urban planning or are so old that they have been "revised" multiple times. The system in this book is VERY D&D-centric.