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Message: <blockquote data-quote="uzirath" data-source="post: 8928374" data-attributes="member: 8495">After returning from my school trip last week, I caught a cold and have been struggling to keep up. I don't have anything in full to post yet, but am continuing to doodle on the dungeon in various ways. I've been pondering the columned hall (room 1/26) in my <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1g_xNmOcIVVTMTaOgIVSbEh0tKXZbHY1Z/view?usp=share_link" target="_blank">Smith's Home map</a> (<a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/dungeon23.693859/post-8916239" target="_blank">posted here</a> on the 26th). The smith is a forgeling, which is a dwarf infused with the spirit of a fire elemental (from <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/293519/Dungeon-Fantasy-Monsters-2" target="_blank">Dungeon Fantasy Monsters 2</a>, p. 18-19). He has literal flames for hair and cannot use flammable items. This got me to wondering what if he was into books anyway. Maybe he has a fireproof study or something where he can work with paper books (this will be room 1/27, I think). But maybe he also commissions carvings of his favorite stories into stone. Thus his true library is a massive hall of columns, each with a spiral staircase around it where you can read the carved runes as you climb.While considering these columns, I became a bit obsessed with the geometry of the whole thing, so I spent some time using Python and PLaSM to mock up a simple 3D model until I found proportions that I liked. Here are a few images from that work.Looking straight along one of the aisles (the columns are in a 5x3 grid, so there's another row off to the right):[ATTACH=full]274760[/ATTACH]Turning to the right:[ATTACH=full]274761[/ATTACH]View from higher up (the camera here would be in the rock wall, but that's ok): [ATTACH=full]274762[/ATTACH]The squares are scaled to be a yard across. Thus the columns are 2-yards diameter and the stairs stick out another yard. The height between loops of the spiral is about 7 feet, so it will feel cramped to taller characters, but is quite spacious for dwarves. I'm imagining the columns being 15 yards tall. Alas, the software I'm using doesn't allow me to map a texture to the columns, so I can't slap some runes on them. Maybe someday...</blockquote>

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