I have decided to write up a guide to Tradegate and the area around the city as I discussed it in the pervious thread: Making an Atlas to the Outlands. This project is twofold: For one I want to flesh out the environment adding new places for characters, players and DMs to use and perhaps more importantly gather together the disparate sources of information and form them into one solid bit of writing.
At this stage I need to gather information on Tradegate and the Outlands in General. Any tips on where I should look for this info would be appreciated, but I do request that if you cite a supplement to give me at least a chapter or page number or better yet quote the relevant text here.
I have been reading through the pdfs of the Guide to the Outlands, the Planewalker's Guide, and the PSCS. Also please assume that I probably already know the material in the official Planewalker releases.
Also note: While I anticipate that most of the material I put out from this will be relevant to nearly any PS game I will be writing it for Post-Faction War using cannon as closely as I can to how the official planewalker team is using it. However, I will also try to make note of major changes that have occurred to make it easier to use for those who are running their games Pre-Faction War.
So I wouldn't know where to tell you to look. I've got a few pdfs and am looking through those.
This is an extreemly rough draft the final product will probably look nothing like this at all, but the information in it might still be carried.
The Place
Tradegate is city with a star shaped outer wall built with defense against a possible invasion in mind. However, the wall itself has seen little use since very few major campaigns have been through the area within even any petitioner's memory. Farmland surrounds the city for many miles breaking into lush coniferous forests at about half a day's ride from the gates in most directions. The few beings that have lived in the city for long enough do remember when the forests were within a short walk from the gates, but the constant bustle of trade, industry and building have caused the forests of the immediate area to be deforested. However the natives do make good use of the land cleared and fields either cultivated or fallow line all of the roads leading into the city itself.
Lesser known are the five smaller burgs that sit almost as satellites to the larger city, Millsrun, Breathquarry, Vinberg, Kalberg, and Stoneheath, each about half of a day to a day's ride. Stoneheath is the largest of the five with a population hovering just above one thousand people laying directly spireward of the gatetown on the road leading off towards Tir Na Nog.