This is the hardback printing of Treacheries of the Troublesome Towns, a full town adventure generator for Four Against Darkness. It is published in two books, totaling over 400 pages of information. Tome 1 (this book) covers the rules to generate towns. Tome 2 has all the tables and the Book of Secrets. You need both Tomes to play! Betrayal. Love. Crime. Lust. Create cities as you explore them, one building at a time, with uniquely detailed inhabitants given purpose and goals, rife with danger and adventure. You can become a ruler, partake in conspiracies or thievery, burn heretics, haggle, buy houses, lead revolutions, hunt villain masterminds, marry into nobility, raise children. In tome 1 you will find: Complete rules for generating towns and sewers, rules to generate non-player characters, persuasion, quests and more; advanced rules, optional and modular, for arsons, banks, benedictions, coups, curses, ethnicity, food, forbidden books, friendship, hometowns, house amenities, impersonators, Inquisition, insurrections, investigations, jail, jealousy, love, marriage, mercenaries, money making, monstrous retainers, murder, noble privileges, pregnancy, recruitment, seduction, ships, strumpetry, taxes, temples, thieving actions, time management, trading, turmoil, travel between towns, water travel, winter and more! Optional rules to generate quarreling factions and their audiences, quests, twists and treacheries, including villain masterminds and their machinations; Optional rules to create weird towns: aquatic, monoethnic (dwarf, elf, orc, etc.), invaded, Nether and even using pre-drawn maps; Conversion guidelines to and from d20 and OSR games!