HELP--Building Town & prison -Ebbberon

[foehammerx]

Looking for help here.
I am starting a campaign in Ebberron based arround a Prison and the town the prison workers live in.

I was looking for resources on constructing a town or prison. Or existing maps of such places. Like the "Complete guide to Towns and Prisons" by Generic publishing.

Or any other ideas
Thanx

 

[MavrickWeirdo]

Some more details would help.

What race controls the prison? (Dwarves, Humans, Hobgoblins)

Are any Dragonmarked Houses involved? Deneith? Kundarak? Mendani?

 

[Hand of Evil]

Think of the level of the person being held, town drunk: stocks/cell/pit for bandits: cells/pit, for more prowerful NPCs special cells and guards, now you have to think population, what can a town spend or want to spend on containment.

Watch towers/broader stations would have cells, important towns also. Small towns may just have a stock or converted root ceallar.

 

[Byrons_Ghost]

I don't have any D20 or RPG specific sources, but you might want to do a Google search on Devil's Island and the Cayenne prison colony. These worked pretty much the way you're talking about, and since they were active up to the thirties or so there's probably a fair amount of photos and layout details.

I'd thought about using a similar setup for the House Kundark controlled Dreadhold Island, which is supposed to be the House's main prison colony in the Lhazzar Principalities. Only the campaign was going to start with a prison break, because we all know that PCs wouldn't be prisoners for long...