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    Default Looking for highly structured & symmetrical lawful evil city

    Hello,

    I'm creating a city that is ruled by devil worshippers. I want to stress structure and order.

    I'm asking if anyone is aware of a map - background and description text useful but not required - of a city that has a highly structured and symmetrical layout to an anally retentive extreme. I'm aware of several evil-ish cities (Pathfinder setting, Invincible Overlord, etc) but they all pretty much have an "organic" layout.

    Thanks.

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    anally retentive extreme.
    In the sense of constipated? As is a lot of congestion?

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    Not exactly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Azélor View Post
    In the sense of constipated? As is a lot of congestion?
    I think the intended meaning is simply 'structured, organized and symmetrical to excess', in that the city's layout was presumably pre-planned and laid out precisely, and then kept that way as it was constructed and/or grew, for sheer ideological reasons rather than for any practical concerns (and indeed, possibly even kept symmetrical and organized in layout even in defiance of practical concerns).

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    Quote Originally Posted by AzureWings View Post
    I think the intended meaning is simply 'structured, organized and symmetrical to excess', in that the city's layout was presumably pre-planned and laid out precisely, and then kept that way as it was constructed and/or grew, for sheer ideological reasons rather than for any practical concerns (and indeed, possibly even kept symmetrical and organized in layout even in defiance of practical concerns).
    Yes. I figured he was just being snarky

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    There's this one that's pretty symmetric.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThomasR View Post
    There's this one that's pretty symmetric.
    Thanks. That one fairly good.

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    Does Brasília count? https://binged.it/2pxrH5V

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    Quote Originally Posted by AzureWings View Post
    I think the intended meaning is simply 'structured, organized and symmetrical to excess', in that the city's layout was presumably pre-planned and laid out precisely, and then kept that way as it was constructed and/or grew, for sheer ideological reasons rather than for any practical concerns (and indeed, possibly even kept symmetrical and organized in layout even in defiance of practical concerns).
    Well that is a very strange way to say it. I googled the expression and could not find the exact meaning of it except at one place were someone said it was crude language.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Falconius View Post
    Does Brasília count? https://binged.it/2pxrH5V
    Heh - bitting my tounge. No, Dai, don't go political *here*. LOL

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