The only negative is that every city is a walled city, not a historical medieval landscape.

The following are the names of the Cities included in this map collection

Key=City Name/Population/Kingdom/KoKA Map Page/Long-Lat/KoKA City description page number

KoKA=(reference page(s) in Kingdom of Kalamar Atlas)Cities of Kalamar KoKA=(reference page(s) in Kingdom of Kalamar Atlas)

AROROLETA 24,100 DODERA 313 38º50’N 2º10’W KoKA-54

BALELIDO 6,400 TARISATO 326 30º35’N 2º15’E KoKA-61

BANETA 16,000 PEKAL 346 40º30’N 6º10’W KoKA-60

BET BIRELI 10,600 O'PAR 348 42º55’N 0º50’E KoKA-57

BET DODERA 17,900 DODERA 366 40º40’N 0º5’E KoKA-53

BET ROGALA 20,900 PEKAL 347 42º10’N 4º45’E KoKA-58

BET SEDER 47,800 TOKIS 312 39º25’N 4º20’W KoKA-65

BET URALA 53,300 BASIR 315 35º30’N 6º20’W KoKA-51

DOULATHANORIAN 18,000 EDOSI FOREST 316 36º10’N 5º15’W KoKA-70

GAKETA 7,700 TOKIS 313 38º50’N 2º55’W KoKA-66

KABAKOSIKIDO 4,400 TARISATO 329 28º0’N 2º25’E KoKA-62

KALALETA 7,200 KALALALI FOREST 343 44º10’N 5º55’W KoKA-56

KARASTA 25,000 KALAMAR 323 33º30’N 3º25’E KoKA-72

OLOSETA 26,200 TARISATO 325 29º40’N 1º30’E KoKA-63

PIPIDO 4,300 TOKIS 347 41º15’N 3º45’E KoKA-67

ROSALETA 14,800 KALAMAR 321 32º30’N 1º45’W KoKA-47

SEGELETA 10,227 KALAMAR 317 35º25’N 2º10’W KoKA-48

SOBETETA 56,300 KALAMAR 320 31º30’N 3º40’W KoKA-49

U'RUDAKETA 16,100 TOKIS 312 38º5’N 5º5’W KoKA-68

Cities of the Young Kingdoms

ASHAKULAGH 6,650 NORGA-KRANGREL 345 42º50’N 10º30’W KoKA-87

BET KASEL 10,300 EK'KASEL 346 42º55’N 8º0’W KoKA-81

BETASA 13,970 EK'GAKEL 343 46º15’N 5º10’W KoKA-79

DIJISHY 6,446 ELOS DESERT 305 39º5’N 12º25’W KoKA-92

DIJISHY See Adventure lvl 8-14 "Lost Tomb of of Kruk-Ma-Kali"

KOREM 10,400 KORAK 342 44º30’N 8º35’W KoKA-83

MICLENON 15,700 ELOS DESERT 350 35º25’N 9º30’W KoKA-94

P'BAPAR 73,100 P'BAPAR 337 46º55’N 10º25’W KoKA-88

PROMPELDIA 15,800 ELOS DESERT 311 38º40’N 7º30’W KoKA-89

RINUKAGH 12,200 NORGA-KRANGREL 295 43º35’N 11º50’W KoKA-86

SHROGGA-PRAVAAZ 5,500 ELOS DESERT 315 37º0’N 7º55’W KoKA-95

SHYTA-NA-DOBYO 17,510 BRINDONWOOD 339 47º40’N 5º50’W KoKA-90 (not Shyna-na-Dobyo as printed in the City Map Folio-Bookmarks&Description)

SISALASIDO 3,700 EK'GAKEL 342 44º55’N 7º20’W KoKA-80

As a GM, it’s nearly impossible to get by without a few maps. Sure, you can come up with a village on the fly, or maybe a 5-room dungeon, but cities are sometimes tough to design at the drop of a hat. Not only are there landscape concerns, but population, location, general disposition (friendly or un-), and so on.

Thankfully, there are many creative, artistic people who have created maps for us already. The Kingdoms of Kalamar: City Map Folio from Kenzer and Company provides more than 30 detailed maps to use for inspiration or in a Kingdoms of Kalamar campaign. From the full color map of Kalamar presenting the region where all these cities are located to the gorgeous interior black and white maps, there’s plenty here to salivate over from cartographers Craig Zipse and Clayton Van Sickle III.

What impressed me the most was the little details. Though the maps themselves have few labels or legends, anyone familiar with maps appearing in RPG adventures or books over the last 30+ years will instantly understand what they’re looking at… from rivers and roads to walls, buildings, forests and plains. Seeing how buildings flow around obstacles such as major roads, rivers, and docks can provide fodder for the most inquisitive player to explore…

And each map provides a small summary of pertinent details such as the city size, longitude and latitude, type of government, as well as major alignments, races, and size of the population. Also included is the name of the ruler (or rulers) of the city – such as with Baneta… “ruled by wizard Lakaran the Twisted under figurehead Lord B’Pareso.”

I did find it very difficult (impossible in some cases) to find a particular city on the full color map at the beginning of the book. It would have been nice to perhaps broken the bigger map into smaller regional maps to simplify finding them in the larger context. I also found it interesting that every single map in this collection has a wall or other defensive structure completely surrounding the heart of the population. Though I can see having walls around some portions of a city, I can’t imagine that building one around a population of 20,000 people can be cheap or easy to maintain.

That said, the Kingdoms of Kalamar: City Map Folio (first published in 2004) offers GMs tons of inspiration for their own campaigns and worlds. Who knows what dangers may lurk in these literally thousands of city streets ripe for the picking? Definitely worth the $6.99 as a PDF from DriveThruRPG.com.

(This review first appeared here: http://www.gameknightreviews.com/2010/07/rpg-review-kingdoms-of-kalamar-city-map-folio/)

These remind me of the old Judges Guild products, such as the Village Books, or the Castle Books: you get maps of cities, good sized ones at that, but you have to flesh them out, and populate them. For me, these are wonderful to use for the cities on my world map: I may not know everything about a given city, but at least I've got maps for them, so I can wing it, if I need to, as to who owns what shop, where. With a map done for me, the rest is much easier. Definitely for the do-it-yourself types, but the maps are gorgeous, A very good deal, at a very good price. Highly recommended. Cheers!

A nice collection of maps that could be dropped into any fantasy game.

I would like to start off by stating that I don't own any other products from the Kalamar line and I have to say that this product is still awesome. For 7 bucks you get 31 overview shots of a cityscape for various landscapes. This product is a godsend for any gm who likes to game on the fly, or even the aspiring world builder to busy pushing mountains to draw up tiny cities.

The City Map Folio by Kenzer & Company is a great resource for any fantasy campaign. Each map comes with some basic info about the city and its population (including type of goverment, aligments, which racial groups are living in the city, etc.). If you're not running a campaign in the "Kingdoms of Kalamar" campaign setting, you can easily ignore this information and use the city maps as you see fit. The black & white artwork is pretty good and all kinds of different cities are included. This is a great resource for any GM and it's definitely worth the low price of $6.99! Highly recommended!