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Cities - go near water!  freshwater lakes and rivers (rivers especially) are the best places for cities because A) source of water and B) travel and trade is much easier cus you can put your boats like right there.  Basically ever relevant city ever was built on a lake or a river.

for rivers in general - because gravity, rivers run from mountains (forming from melting snow and ice (this is why they get fat in spring–more stuff melting)) to lakes/ocean where they can empty out (and even lakes will have rivers leading out that eventually get to the ocean), which can help when mapping out where those start and end.  rivers are also much thinner and faster in steeper elevations and very slow and wide when the land is flat

mountains - i like to think of what the tectonic plates look like because that’s what makes mountains!  mountains are also never standalone they’re always in mountain ranges (archipelagos are really just underwater mountain ranges babey).  a cool trick I like to do is occasionally separate mountain ranges across continents, because over time the tectonic plates shifted and literally split the range in half.  These mountains are really old tho so they’ve eroded and therefore it makes them smaller and rounder (like the appalachians) as opposed to relatively young mountain ranges like the rocky mountains which have taller and sharper peaks

Another mountain trick: if your mountains run along the ocean, the ocean side of the mountains will get a LOT of rain while the other side will be very dry–almost desert-like, in fact.  think of temperate rainforests in British Columbia vs the drier conditions in the canadian prairies

forests - depends on how warm the area might be.  coniferous forests are found further north (before you hit the tree line, and then it’s only tundra onwards) but as you head south you get leafier trees, and the leaves tend to get larger too

If you think about general elevation too, you’ll have places that might be swampy (wet + lower).  if your world has an ice age like we did, then glaciers may have carved the land, leaving piles of soil in the south that was left when the ice receded and places where the bedrock has been bared north of that (like the Canadian Shield in Canada–the reason we see that is because of the glaciers)

You might also have a land that’s dotted in a shitton of freshwater lakes as well because the meltwater filled the holes that the glaciers scraped out (this is why canada has so many goddamn lakes)

and if the ice age was more recent than it was in our world, then you might not even have the forest re-growth and it could be a lot of open plains

Though, for fantasy, you can make the world operate on entirely different principles:

With that done, the actual topic of city placement can be covered by videos like this:

Or

Once you have your places, if you want help naming them in realistic ways, this video can help:

This one is on architecture, which is definitely a subset of cities:

But for a more relevant practical guide on making settlements realistic:

Here’s a quick guide for making demographics:

Like, yes, it’s true that it’s unfair to non-spellcasters, and that these sorts of exploits often rely on perverse readings that can be countered by pointing out that – for example – the human body isn’t an “open container” in the sense that the description of create water is using it, or that you don’t have line of sight to people’s internal organs, but that’s not the reason those stunts are bad for the game.

The reason this sort of thing is a problem is because doing it requires you to engage in bad faith. No set of rules can foreclose on every possible perverse reading without becoming unwieldy – just look at pro sports rulebooks to see where that gets you! Even the most rules-heavy tabletop RPGs necessarily assume that you’re reading for intent as well as for the explicit text, and most such exploits are clearly counter to that intent.

It’s like bringing a twenty-sided die that reads “20″ on every face to the table, and when you get caught, insisting that your die ought to be allowed because the rules merely specify that you should roll a twenty-sided die – they don’t specify how the faces of that die should be enumerated.

Without that presumption of good faith, the relationship between the GM and the players stops being one of creative collaboration and becomes that of a mere referee, and forcing your GM to play full time Rules Cop isn’t fun for anyone unless you’re the sort of hypercompetitive asshole who approaches every social interaction as an invitation to intellectual combat.

Mythic Odysseys of Theros is an official setting supplement published by Wizards of the Coast based on the Theros MtG setting which is also inspired by Greek mythology.

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