I haven't done this in awhile but Best of the Web was always intended for me to be able to find and revisit cool links, and I found one that intrigued me so we have Sandbox Settlements: Prep, Run and Thrive by Among Cats and Books. The post has a lot of little useful bits and pieces and a lot of links worth tracking down.
One of those links is to a post called In Praise of Legwork by Sam Sorenson about all the details required to make a proper settlement ready to go at the table. He uses Citystate of the Invincible Overlord as an example in that every shopkeep has a statblock. I like the way 5E did generic statblocks for commoners and such (but not enough of them) which simplifies this sort of thing. What makes me sad is that WoTC has never assigned an employee or team to map all the buildings in Phandlin, or all the landmark spots in Waterdeep and Everwinter. They should have done so in 4E when everything was a battlemap but 4E didn't take place in Forgotten Realms so I give them a pass on that but they've been using Forgotten Realms for 10 years now and since covid VTTs are becoming more and more common, and they have failed. Probably saving it up for their own VTT but that's money left behind. If I ever get a city product together I'm gonna have as many interior maps as I can manage, that's for sure.
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