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Towns & Villages Book
Zero-Prep Town & Shop Builder for 5E
Trusted by 3,000+ GMs
3,000+ DescriptionsCozy, Rugged or Creepy: Mix & Match descriptions with the FlowRead Mechanic
Complete Shop CatalogsWeapons, potions, and food. All with 5E stats and prices.
35+ Dynamic LocationsRun Brothels, Thieves Guilds and Gambling Dens without any prep.
Instant Adventure HooksHundreds of side quests, rumors, and local lore to keep players engaged
Works great with:
Dreading the "What do I see?" Question?
Most Common DM Problems
Prep Burnout
Creative Slump
Awkward Pauses
Forgettable NPCs
Instant Immersion. Zero Homework
What GMs are saying
Greatest book for D&D 5e. All that stats for each and every kind of type of shops and taverns and inns. And the pcs that works there. LOVE this book.
Got my book and shop cards today, I am very impressed with the quality of the book, the artwork, the content. I love the cards too and love the fact that you included empty cards that we can fill out with custom items. Can't wait to use these. Looking forward to future projects by Nathan!
I wanted to let you know how impressed I am by this book. I used it last week as I was prepping for my main table's weekly session and my party just happens to be going through a smaller town in Faerun which doesn't have much, if any, lore. I have lots of other prep to do for this session and my ability to instantly create not only the narratives for their entrance to the town and shops, but also complete pictures of the owners, workers, patrons, and inventory...amazing.
This book is fantastic!!!! Never have I had such as easy time building a community of any size and populating it. It has been a wonderful addition to my DM tools. I am looking forward to receiving my physical copy with the shop cards. I look forward to really building all sizes of communities with ample descriptions for my players and not fumbling with how it all looks.
As a huge fan of creating worlds for my own games and for others, this is such an amazing product! I see myself spending a lot of time making more of them!
A great book. It is well organized and has tons of content for giving a soul to the places that the adventurers visit. Also with a lot of variants for each, it can be used indefinitely! Formatting and pictures are also excellent.
Wonderful in every single way! This book has helped me so much with bringing life into the homebrew world of my campaign and the easy to understand layout makes it really simple to use on the fly and not just for planning ahead. It has also helped me with letting individual PCs shine more as the quiet fighter had a long and fun discussion with the blacksmith in the town after the smithy was given a name and description and the blacksmith a personality, rather than just being a shop. I don't regret a single cent that I spent on this product and cannot recommend it highly enough!
Hey Nathan and the rest of the team! The flowread thing is SO useful! It's soo nice to know I can just start reading! Love the book!
Frequently Asked Questions
Both! It was designed to save you in a pinch, when your players decide to go someplace you didn't prepare. However, it's also a great tool to create towns and villages completely from scratch, before your campaign. That's why we created the Town Ledger, which allows you to note exactly how each town, shop and NPC looks like, or what your players did when they visited. It's a notebook that allows you to keep track of everything during your session or prepare everything in advance.
The loot tables are made to fit a regular town location. Be it the sewers, the tavern, the docks or the market, each loot table has both valuable and worthless items. The loot table on the DM screen however, is scalable by loot type. You can roll for commoner loot, adventurer loot or epic loot.
It includes both (and more!). You get modular templates for village layouts, place descriptions, points of interest, quest hooks, tavern games, guild jobs and so much more depending on the location. Each location is also accompanied with mix and match NPCs that really feel like they belong in that location. Their descriptions, desires, curiosities and even voices, are made specifically to fit the location your players might find them at.
For the most part, yes. Some elements like weapon stats, potion descriptions and magic items have been created for 5E. However, 80% of the book focuses on the narrative architecture and sensory details rather than mechanical stat blocks, which is why some people even use it for writing novels, designing video game sets or simply as an inspiration tool!
Standard tables require repetitive dice rolls, cross-referencing results, and disjointed reading that breaks your narrative flow. FlowRead replaces math with motion. By using a color-coded horizontal grid, you simply glide your finger across the page to construct a fluid sentence. You pick a starting point and follow the color cues to instantly create a unique description. Zero Dice: Eliminates the Roll-Look-Read cycle that pauses your game. Dynamic Variety: A single page offers thousands of options based on your path, rather than just 20 static options. Cozy, Rugged, Creepy: Use the color-coding to instantly shift the feel of a location.
Yes, the book is designed to be modular and you can take a single shop, an NPC, or a whole town and place it anywhere in your world. The FlowRead Mechanic and the color-coding system make it easy to match anything you need, to the theme of your campaign.