Mechanically, I really like Helix from Barrowmaze as it has just enough of everything you need for a home base.

Honestly my favourite thing to do though is to create the village with my players during session 1. They’re always far more engaged, they remember more about the town and it’s people, and it’s usually hilarious.

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What should a town in a West marches campaign even have in it?

• a relatively safe place to rest
• resources (hirelings, equipment, etc.) and trade (have to unload those paintings we dragged out of the dungeon somewhere!)
• access to information, factions, and potential patrons

Illmire is my favorite town of recent, although I wouldn’t use it for a West Marches. For me the most important thing a WM town has is safety. The world is strange and dangerous place, but the town us the one place they’re guaranteed respite. A WM town also needs a tavern NPCs that have knowledge of the outside world to help seed adventure ideas. Shops, churches, and NPCs can be made on the fly as you need them.

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Stone Mason Took got my old squad addicted to the took weed sold at Stoneys in the City of Carse.

But it was to Haven the Free City we most travel - available at http://www.diffworlds.com/haven.htm

But there is fun & intrigue at Barnacus Town in ye old Dragon Magazine Issue #80 https://www.annarchive.com/files/Drmg080.pdf Free Public Domain Now

I tried to recreate some of these crazy Italian cliffside coastal towns for the Mystara Campaign https://theculturetrip.com/europe/italy/articles/italy-s-10-beautiful-coastal-towns-to-visit-before-you-die/

Useful tool for adding Ultima Towns to your game world :)

http://tartarus.rpgclassics.com/ultima4/virtuoustowns.php

and https://ultima.fandom.com/wiki/Maps_of_Ultima_IX_Towns