Help! Town House needed

[Stormborn]

A friend of mine is recovering from surgery and asked if I could come and hang out tomorrow (its my off day). I want to run a little one shot one-on-one game for her.

I have created a gestalt rogue/fighter 2 for her and plan on running the following encounters:

1. Thieves Guild puts pressure on the PC to pay debts.
2. PC learns of a rich man who just aquired a famous work of art that he can easilly fence.
3. PC breaks into the house.
4. PC encounters in the house:
- young and overly aggressive daughter who wants PC to "take her away"
- Body guard who has been sleeping off a drunk but is easilly roused
- sleeping servants
- traps
5. Rich Man, it turns out, is a bit of a diabolist and has a nimp guarding his treasure.

Basically I want a little RP, a little combat, and a few skill based encounters (3.5 BTW).

What I would like is to find a suitable town house already stated out with things like hardness for windows and doors, trap types and DCs, and a layout. I can wing it, but any help would be nice. I have most of the last few years of Dungeon, the Pathfinder series up to date, Ptolus, and various other odds and ends, I just don't have alot of time to look through all of it.

Any ideas?

 

[justanobody]

So you need maps or floorplans?

 

[Stormborn]

So you need maps or floorplans?

Not sure what the difference is for a single building. But yes, floor plans - although the mechanical stuff liek hardness, trap DCs, etc is more important.

 

[Treebore]

I can't think of such a write up that has hardness, traps, etc... already done.

Personally I would go to an online website for blue prints of a mansion, use it, then use Grimtooths WURST Traps, or Traps and Treachery books, or all the above, to populate it with a few choice traps, using standard wall hardness, et... in the DMG.

 

[HelloChristian]

I hope that I have something that will help. On the back page of Iridia 59 is a two-storey home with map, a brief description and the stats you require.

http://www.iridiazine.net/pdf/Iridia59.pdf

Peace,
Christian

 

[Thanael]

Jay Haffner's Complete Dungeon index might come in handy.

Or oyu could use Thievery 101: The Periapt of Famidon. This review is quite positive.

 

[Stormborn]

I hope that I have something that will help. On the back page of Iridia 59 is a two-storey home with map, a brief description and the stats you require.

http://www.iridiazine.net/pdf/Iridia59.pdf

Peace,
Christian

Oh thats very nice, thanks, I can certainly use pieces of that for what I want to do. Other suggestions still welcome.

 

[Stoat]

The real estate section of the local paper usually has two or three example floor plans in it. I usually just use those.

 

[Kris]

Other suggestions still welcome.

I drew a few medieval townhouse style maps a while back (D&Dified to a 5ft grid of course), and posted them in the art gallery section of the forum. They're pretty basic, but they might be of interest - so here's the links to the images to save you time (rather than searching for my old post ):

http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l159/csp_kris/town_house_01.jpg
http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l159/csp_kris/town_house_02.jpg
http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l159/csp_kris/town_house_03.jpg
http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l159/csp_kris/town_house_04.jpg
http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l159/csp_kris/town_house_05.jpg
http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l159/csp_kris/town_house_06.jpg
http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l159/csp_kris/town_house_07.jpg
http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l159/csp_kris/town_house_08.jpg
http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l159/csp_kris/town_house_09.jpg
http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l159/csp_kris/town_house_10.jpg

I also did an manor-type house thing as a pdf - so here's a link to that too:

http://www.enworld.org/CrookedStaffProductions/house_booklet.pdf

I did type up descriptions of the ground floor of this last house (with the occasional harness, lock DC's, and 'treasure' and such included) - though it is pretty much specific to my own game-world, so it might not be of much use. However, I can probably upload it to the internet someplace so that you can take a look at it if sounds like you might be able to use some of it.

Anyway, I hope that helps

 

[Stormborn]

Thanks everyone, the one-shot is over and the player had a wonderful time that helped to alleviate her growing cabin fever. The PC didn't turn out to be a great burglar, and wound up having to be saved by the daughter of his victim on more than one occasion, but it was fun.