What I love about this product is that the place feels REAL. The mix of pig herders to grocers to nobles to town-watch feels real. The shape of the buildings looks real. The location of the markets in relation to the church in relation to the castle looks real. The descriptions of who lives in the building and what their jobs are feels real.

Bottom line is this town just feels like it could have been a REAL place, and who knows (or cares), maybe it was.

That's why I bought it and use it in my campaign. I wanted a place that I as the GM could feel solid about -- a place and a map and set of demographics that I felt so confident about that I could sell it 100% to my players... a place that I really BELIEVED in, you know? That didn't feel like it came wet and steaming right out of somebody's.... Well... you know where. I wanted a place that I felt like I could actually time travel to.

Anyway, this is a high quality product and I love it because it provides the kind of rock solid realistic foundation that I can then build a believable fantasy setting on top of.

I highly recommend this author's work in general and the Medieval Market Town product in particular. It's a smashing bargain for such scrumptious work.

The issue I have with a lot of other town and city maps is there's no legend. It's a map with squares and rectangles that representives buildings. What makes this booklet great is that it lists on the map what each building is and has a section of searchable text describing each. This means when my players come back to this, their home town, and they want to find a baker, a jewler, the pie shop, you name it, I can quickly find one or two and point them to it. It means I have one less thing to have to think about as the DM.