Cities, Towns and Villages Art Thread [Also Maps]

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Generic, clean port city.

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Super cool, utterly pointless druid telescope tower!

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Totally Not!Carthage

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Mountain warrior monk fortress.

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Abandoned desert Not!HelmsDeep

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>>53658570
I love this. I once had an entire city based around an old watch tower. The tower had been fitted with all kinds of buildings jutting off from the sides and it was all kinds of ramshackle cozy!

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Asian farming village.

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Have some sort of mystical middle eastern metropolis.

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City on a hill.

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The underground city of D'Ni, an old favorite of mine.

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>>53658571
Ragnarok Online was fun

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Artist renditions of ancient cities are pretty good for inspiration.

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>>53658820
Here's a possible wide shot.

>>53658708
Seeing this makes the Stronghold: Crusader soundtrack play in my head.

>>53658571
How would a port like this work when there is no main road to it which is used for the transport of goods inland.

>>53659796
Maybe the main road is right at the top-left corner we can't see?

>>53659851
Not him, but the only way to that level seems to be stairs. In any case, it could just be a place to restock. There's only one dock for huge cargo ships and the rest could be for local fishing vessels.

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Citadel.

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>>53659796
That is what you take away about how bad this is!?

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Walled village.

>>53659890
There appears to be a ramp/road on the right side of the port area.

>>53662062
What about to the next level?

>>53662208
Guess they just break their backs.

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bump

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Desert outpost 1

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>>53663291
And 2.

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While not a town or city, this is one of my favourite architectural vistas, as simple as it is. Great for setting up any number of adventures.

>>53658639
>Delenda est

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>>53658537

>>53658537
Prepping an L5R game, and this is great. Saved, OP. Thanks.

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>>53663622

Anyone got cities bordering a forest or using part of the forest like >>53658957
?

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>>53663644
>Dubs not once, but twice

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>>53663671
I gotchu

>>53663671
https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=fantasy+forest+cities

It's not hard, man.

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>>53663736

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>>53663756

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>>53663786

>>53663736
Thanks bro
>>53663745
I'm looking to see if anyone's got anything specific they thought would be relevant or interesting ya dingus, I can go looking on pinterest any time

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>>53663856

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>>53663981

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>>53663999

>>53663597
before i googled this, I thought you wrote "delete this" in Latin.

>>53663856
>>53662806
/r/ing more like these. I really love the compactness of them.

>>53663856
>>53663877
>>53663915
>>53663926
>>53663981

>Barbarians HATE him!
>See how this castle got jacked in just 500 years!

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This is a thread I can get behind.

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>>53666712

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>>53666728

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>>53666746

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>>53666759

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>>53666796

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>>53666814

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>>53666848

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>>53666864

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>>53666901

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>>53666919
I think I'm done. I know some of these didn't quite fit the OP, but fuck you, fight me.

>>53662806
I bet living in a motte and bailey would be pretty comfy

Anyone have any non-dwarf/drow underground city art? I have a dragonborn faction in my campaign that lives inside of a mountain and I need some inspiration for their city.

>>53666796
How did the Japanese do this?

Grorioussu Nippon Stealru?

>>53667296
????
It's basic earthwork.
Even the Germanic tribes know how to do this.

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>>53667263
I've got this, it's about the closest I have to an underground city other than >>53666901

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>>53667393

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>>53667263

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>>53667296
Groriasu nippon shoveru, folded 1,000,000 times desu.

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>>53667263
I don't know it's dwarf or drow, but you can be the judge of that.

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>>53667263

Any decent capital maps in the desert?

Bump, this shit is my jam

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Thanks for all your hard work guys. I saved a bunch.

>>53658708
really reminds me of gerudo fortress from OoT. I love that style.

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Gonna drop some modern maps here.

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>>53671049

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>>53671171

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>>53671185

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A favorite of mine.

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This is the village of Ronda, in Spain. There's plenty of IRL examples of old towns and villages to use.

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Requesting arctic or snowy ports. All the ports I have are too warm.

I'm about to go to sleep, can we have another thread if this reaches image limit before I wake up?

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>>53672169
Sure mate, sleep deeply and dream of large women

>>53664574
They basically did.

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I love saving art of pretty fantasy setting art for inspiration.

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>>53675700

>>53660151
that image makes me want to play WoW again and go questing in howling fjord.

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>>53675727

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>>53675835

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>>53675845

>Town & villages thread
>1/3 of content is Britwank over motte
Obligatory ugh

>>53658708
nice meme art but deserts don't have rocky mountains/peaks

>>53676935

What's so wrong with motte-and-bailey manor villages? They count, right?

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>>53676935
>complains about image content
>doesn't post images
obligatory get your head out of your ass

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I've been working on creating some village but I'm hitting a wall at how to fill the land plots, there isn't a river but an hill is overlooking the settlement and the lord reside atop this hill.

There has been an influx of peasants seeking shelter in the village lately and slums began to form outside the walls surounding the settlement. Most of those walls are a mix of wooden pallisade and proper stone wall although they aren't that thick nor high as money was short for the rullers.

Anyone can give me pointers?

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>>53677037

Well it all depends on what the village was founded around

Was it a farming village? There for an iron mine? Trade post, roadside stop?

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>>53677037
This guy has some basic tutorial/how2ideas that helped me out. His stuff on isometric mapping was useful too.
>http://www.fantasticmaps.com/2013/03/how-to-design-a-town/

>>53663999
>>53663981
>you can pin point the exact moment everything went wrong

>>53677286
Jesus christ I don't care how unrealistic that is because it's so damn cool

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>>53677070
Hmm, it was a farming village but when the lord relocated his seat it became some kind of military village with smiths working for the small army garrisoned there and everything that soldiers/noble brought with them. In time it became this mix of military/farm.

Before the refugees moved in there was roughly 700ish people in the place, now there's about the double of that. Might have to fiddle with the numbers a bit.

>>53677126
This looks good, I'll give it a look more in detail. Have this tentative wall placement in red and the castle in black.

>>53677394
I'd extend the north wall a bit further, closer to the castle. But that's just me

And spacing looks good

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>>53677312
Yeah, I'm pulling stuff from an image folder of gormenghast inspired setting stuff so its going to be more stylized. Although if you look at old woodcuts and prints of some cities stuff can get pretty weird.

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>>53677456
>stuffstuffstuff
yikes gotta stop typing

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>>53677477
kek

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>>53677418
The north wall would stop there because the hill would start getting steep there, my brownish scrawling would be cliffs to stops any camping armies, the pink would be the slums, some would even be on land used for farming(the north side) but since it's left fallow for the time being they're not kicked out.

The green part would be the original farming village while the grey part would be the military/higher class who settled there after the lord moved in. Not sure if I should make most of the roads in the farming part outside of the walls and use them for farmland.

>>53677813
Hmmm, okay then.

Looks pretty solid, the town gets more dense closer to the castle.

>>53674522
I googled it and just got a bunch of alt-right garbage.

I have no use for these images but got I love them. Can you image how satisfying it would have been to live in your motte-and-bailey that you've worked on or improved from your ancestor.

>>53678090
>buzzwords

>>53658708
Oh that's a map in Fistful of Fags

>>53662806
What would the function of something like this be?

>>53658570
How fucking hard is your grain that you need THAT BIG A WINDMILL to grind it

>>53678915
They're making diamond dust for spells.

>>53663981
>>53663999
>tfw the world got really shitty after 1500

>>53678945
a normal grindstone could probably crush diamonds

>>53679019
Yeah, regular diamonds - but what about magic diamonds you need to do magical shit like raising the dead?

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i seem to have deleted everything I had. I have saved loads of aztec style cities to help design a board for Lizardmen display... guess I deleted them for some reason.

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>>53679548
Guess I'll post what I do have.

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>>53679615

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>>53676943

wut?

anyone got asian towns or town districts?

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>>53679640

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>>53676943

Another anon who has never known the beauty that is Utah.

Shame

>>53678869
I assume you're talking about the moat. If you look closely, it's deeper than it may seem at face value. Besides its defensive capabilities, it would likely have some fish that could be eaten and of course the water could be purified.

>>53658537
>>53658571

These are both from RO aren't they?

>>53658571
>>53658537
Sure looks that way. Payon and Alberta respectively.

>>53679763
I meant the itty bitty village next to a watchtower, I'm guessing? Is it just a garrison for troops or like a supply depot?

>>53680383
It's a stone motte and bailey castle. That's not just a simple watch tower, it's a lord's home. The little town probably has stables, a blacksmith, servant quarters, barracks, and maybe an inn and shops to function as a small market place.

>>53680437
A lord needs all that stuff just to live there? The stables I can see, and some servants quarters and services. But an inn?

>>53680547
A lord needs to get drunk.

>>53680547
The inn would mostly be used by the men of another visiting lord if the bailey/keep is too small.

>>53680547
Just a guess. Some more castle-ier things would be a fletcher, cobbler, mason, carpenter, chapel, or alchemist.

>>53677312
Just watch out for Arabs in airplanes

>>53680201

Pretty sure that's Amatsu Castle, not Payon.

>>53658708
That's a Pueblo. Looks like Mesa Verde crossed with Chaco Canyon and Taos

>>53658708
That's desperados. Holy shit what a good game.

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>>53681076
Really? My bad, I thought that was Payon before they revamped it. Wait a minute, no, I checked and that's exactly what it is. And wasn't Amatsu on the coast?

>>53668746

Ooo baby. This one touches me in all kinds of places. Thanks for sharing anon.

>>53677813

Walls should connect the steep bits; you'll want a fuckoff-large garrison or fortification at the confluence of the road leading up to the keep and the edge where the wall meets the increasingly forbidding ridgeline.

Unless there's something preventing it, the (assume keep is north, with the road leading off pointing north-south) northwest spur road should meander less and look more like the original route the south road took to elsewhere. That makes that dense little knot in the middle the original village square in a more natural manner; right now it looks more like a ring road running around a developed city. Unless there's a very good reason the NW road is newest. It's your map, do whatever.

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What's the image limit for /tg/ again?

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My current wallpaper

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May you search

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for Ravnica images (MTG)

>>53676943
What is Mid West United States?

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>>53683561
I thought the more desert/badlands areas of the US were concentrated in the southwest. Midwest makes me think of Minnesota and Iowa.

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A couple of Touhou-inspired artwork I found inspirational.

>>53664108
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>>53664158
>>53664212
It's wierd how these connect, they're very staggered and there's even a bunch of overlapping parts. Are these the original images, or are they cropped from a larger image?

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>>53685324

>>53685324
I got them from the original source, but I think they're actually images from a 3D diorama that the guy made.

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I love me some tiny baileys. Somewhere nice for an adventurer or noble to retire to.

Anyone got anything a little more run-down? Almost Shanty-town? I'm building up a hive of scum and villainy and need things that look a little less pristine.

>>53684426
You aren't wrong. The midwest US is generally considered the great lakes states and the ones that touch the Mississppi and aren't the south.

Also, yeah, there's are a bunch of arid mountains. Did this guy just forget that Utah and the Atlas mountains are a thing?

>>53684426
>>53689315
I live in iowa and ive always made a distinction between the Midwest (one word) and the mid west (two words)

One is flat and stupid and one is mildly interesting to look at

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>>53689349

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>>53689358

>>53676958
The fact the same exact 7 images get reposted every single fucking thread, combined with the fact it's absolutely England-specific thing, combined with it being different from regular stockade by putting the "fort" on a small hill... you get the picture, right?
Besides, there is a bunch of much more interesting structures, even in Anglo-Saxon category, so it further pushes the obligatory "Ugh"

>>53676960
As contrary to posting the same shit over and over and over again?

And since it reached image limit, here, grab those:
http://imgur.com/a/B9RG2
This guy needs much more recognition than he gets

Anyone have particular preferences regarding your cities? I always like the "everything stacked on everything else" look.

>>53689618
If you like the content of your link and want to add new content, make a thread about it. Don't suck yourself off trying to feel superior by being a whinny bitch.

>>53678090
Roman politician Cato the Elder used a variation of this phrase to end (possibly every single one of) his public speeches. It's the ancient equivalent of a forced meme.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthago_delenda_est