Editing Environment Book Series (section)

==Cityscape==
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''Cityscape'' focuses on urban adventures. It includes how to distinguish cities from each other, locations within cities, who lives in cities, and how the surrounding area effects a city as well as what to do on an "adventure" in the city. On the mechanical end, there's intrigue focused spells and character options.

Cityscape houses only new monsters; even the God of Cities, [[Urbanus]], actually debuted in [[Races of X|Races of Destiny]]. New monsters present in this splatlbook consist of:
* Siege [[Golem]]
* Cesspit [[Ooze]]
* Ripper (a repugnant [[aberration]] akin to a monstrous, vaguely humanoid insect that feeds on urban humanoids)
* Sepulchral Thief (a new template for a special kind of undead [[rogue]])
* Pest Swarm (urban animals conglomerated into a deadly swarm)
* Zeitgeist (a [[fey]] embodiment of a city's soul)

The most notorious crunch is the Primary Contact feat, which gives a free skill rank even if would put above the maximum for your level. This is the lone early entry method in 3E that allows bypassing skill requirements, even if it only reduces them by 1. Since it has to come at a feat level and only advances one skill, it's limited in use to classes that require specific number of skill point (generally 7 or 10) in ''one'' skill or in a build that somehow gains a general bonus feat the things you can actually do with it are somewhat limited. It's more flexible when retraining rules or the (far cheeseier) embrace/shun the darkness loop are abused to allow it to be taken at any level.