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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TanisFrey" data-source="post: 5533090" data-attributes="member: 26948">I am think that most castles in a fantasy setting will look more like classical Greek city-state walls (very thick, 15 to 20 feet thick) or more modern like the star forts of Napoleonic war era.If you look at the the mid-level wizard (5th level) as an equivalent of a cannon, you should find the forts designed to deal with cannons being used, meaning the star forts.  They look like stars when you look down upon them.  They had sloped outside walls that were very thick.  The slop wall would often cause cannon shots to deflect upwards and/or adsorb the hit by being back by an earth embankment that was 15 to 20 feet thick.  They had cannon ports built into them to fire back, you install arrow slits instead and placed archer or wizards to shoot out them.</blockquote>