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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Niccodaemus" data-source="post: 5699146" data-attributes="member: 6683506">Castle, by David MacaulayFor a great book on castle design, I highly recommend David Macaulay's Castle:[ame=http://www.amazon.com/Castle-David-Macaulay/dp/0395329205]Amazon.com: Castle (0046442329200): David Macaulay: Books[/ame]In my mind, the best gaming supplement you can buy. Here's a typical castle tower I designed based off of his book:<img src="http://www.endofreality.com/shatterworld/images/castlebrownrender1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />The interior of the tower is 30 feet in diameter. The exterior is 50 feet. The walls are 10 feet thick.The staircase tower is 30 feet in diameter, with a 5 foot wide staircase. There are archery slots for light.The window ledge is 10 feet by 10 feet. The fireplace 5 feet by 5 feet deep. To the right, is a garderobe, or shitpot. It overhangs the wall.The shadows are to give an idea where a thief could hide undetected. An unpleasant way to break into our out of the castle is through the garderobe.Should the floor burn or rot away, it presents interesting physical challenges.What if you are trapped in a burning room? What if you are exploring the empty shell of a ruined tower?The walls are thick enough to have secret passeges in them. Typically, they would be built with an inner and outer course of stone, with the interior of the wall (the five foot wide portion in the rendering) filled with rubble.Even the staircase tower could have a hidden spiral starcase in the center of it, leading to rooms between rooms.. floor only reachable by that particular staircase.An an old 4 story tower, with all the floors and roof rotted out, you could hide an adult dragon. What if the upper floor still had a beam or two intact? You could walk into the tower on the ground floor, with a sleeping dragon hanging upside down directly overhead.A small flying creature (gargoyle, vampire, etc...) taking residence in the fireplace would be quite difficult to reach.When you take into account how things were actually built, it affords room for all sorts of creativity you can't get when your walls are the thickness of pencil lead.</blockquote>

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