Denny, I purchased your VillageWorks set and was quite pleased with it. Here are some suggestions I have for a second, more Urban set, hence the Cityworks suggestion:

New facades: Variety is good! How about an ashlar stone building, or a vertically timbered wood building?

New roofs: Variety always helps. Also, you could include a patterns for making roofs on L-shaped buildings.

Upper Class/Lower Class buildings: It would great to be able to create good and bad parts of town. You could have a well kept manor home on end of the scale, and a dilapidated tavern or dive house on the other

Gables: These could be add-on pieces, just like the chimneys on the original village works set. They look great, and provide a lot of variety with just a little bit of effort (both your and ours).

Steps: How about a step section for buildings with second-story entrances. For an exampel of what I mean, look at the Market Townhouse in the link below

http://www.thewarstore.com/acatalog/Eur ... eries.html

There are just a couple idea I've come up with, but just including these would already fill up an entire set. Does anyone else have some ideas along the same line?

For starters, Wig, if you've the funds available...check out the Castleworks set.  Included in there, alongside a very impressive tower, wall section, and gatehouse, is a large "courtyard house" that would work nicely as a manor, complete with a set of steps much like what you're asking about (and which, at least to me, look like they'd match up nicely with the second story of the modular Villageworks houses).

Thanks for the heads up, Andorax. I acutally hadn't looked closely at Castleworks since I already have a castle to use on my tabletop. The manor house is pretty attractive, and I think I might pick it up this weekend.

Once again I have to say, all great ideas! I’m really thankful to everyone on the forum for keeping them coming. While I can't tackle all of these concepts at once they are certainly cued up in the "stuff to get done" list