Yákawood

Welcome to Yákawood, a High Magic Lowlives neighborhood!

Yákawood is the third of 12 High Magic Lowlives and other ttrpg-compatible city neighborhood guides we're releasing in 2023. Subscribers to the Gem Room Games mailing list receive a 100% off coupon for each one. If you're reading this in March, sign up now to get Yákawood, Bole View, and 9 other neighborhood guides this year!

These neighborhood guides are designed for use with our own High Magic Lowlives, but may also be used as settings and story hooks for any game with a grounded urban fantasy city setting (like Lighthearted, Blades in the Dark, any number of Forged in the Dark games including Slugblaster,  and many post-dungeon fantasy games). 

Yákawood is located on the west side of the shining city of Hycadia. Nature and industry sit side by side here, with beautiful hiking trails overlooking cutting-edge factories!

This neighborhood guide provides details on transportation, utilities, landmarks of local culture, and sites of significant interest in Yákawood - everything you need for whatever heists and hijinks you may get up to.

Highlights include the Stitchwitch Apparel factory (what spell do you want stitched into your denim jacket?),  the Magictech Thornburg Building (where the latest phones are developed and made!), and Langford Park (must-see views, but watch out for the bears and lawyers!)