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<blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8282875" data-attributes="member: 6915329"><p>Smallest <em>modern </em>bedroom. Things were... a bit smaller in history.</p><p></p><p>We have a <a href="https://www.montgomeryparks.org/parks-and-trails/brookside-nature-center/explore-brookside/" target="_blank">nature center</a> not too far from where I live that contains a reconstructed log cabin (built elsewhere in the 1830s, rebuilt on the center's property) where a married couple raised six kids, and later one of their kids raised <em>fifteen </em>kids... in <a href="https://www.montgomeryparks.org/parks-and-trails/brookside-nature-center/history/" target="_blank">240 square feet</a>. Over two floors. I've been in it. It made those little Ikea demo houses seem positively roomy.</p><p></p><p>The basic answer is: they did a lot of stuff, including sleeping, outside.</p><p></p><p>Now, in Medieval times, a peasant's house might indeed be about <a href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/farmers-and-peasants-building-peasant-communities" target="_blank">630-1,500 </a>ft.^2, but half of that is for the animals. In the more sanitation-aware D&D-land, where animals live in the barn, you could probably halve the size of your actual peasant house.</p><p></p><p>Now, of course, in a fantasy world, building things might be cheaper or easier: because of magic, ingenious gnomish joining methods that allow for larger rooms without pillars or flying buttresses, stuff like that.</p><p></p><p>I also took a look <a href="https://www.medievalists.net/2009/04/castle-for-sale-guide-to-buying-a-castle/" target="_blank">here</a>, which lists some castles for sale (it's old, though, and some of the links don't work, but that's why we have the Wayback Machine, right?). One castle is 37,000 ft.^2; another was 40,902 ft.^2.</p><p></p><p>So possibly your sizes are too big, if you're going for realistic. If you're going for "it's D&D; you need the extra room to swing a sword around," then it's fine. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Faolyn, post: 8282875, member: 6915329"] Smallest [I]modern [/I]bedroom. Things were... a bit smaller in history. We have a [URL='https://www.montgomeryparks.org/parks-and-trails/brookside-nature-center/explore-brookside/']nature center[/URL] not too far from where I live that contains a reconstructed log cabin (built elsewhere in the 1830s, rebuilt on the center's property) where a married couple raised six kids, and later one of their kids raised [I]fifteen [/I]kids... in [URL='https://www.montgomeryparks.org/parks-and-trails/brookside-nature-center/history/']240 square feet[/URL]. Over two floors. I've been in it. It made those little Ikea demo houses seem positively roomy. The basic answer is: they did a lot of stuff, including sleeping, outside. Now, in Medieval times, a peasant's house might indeed be about [URL='https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/farmers-and-peasants-building-peasant-communities']630-1,500 [/URL]ft.^2, but half of that is for the animals. In the more sanitation-aware D&D-land, where animals live in the barn, you could probably halve the size of your actual peasant house. Now, of course, in a fantasy world, building things might be cheaper or easier: because of magic, ingenious gnomish joining methods that allow for larger rooms without pillars or flying buttresses, stuff like that. I also took a look [URL='https://www.medievalists.net/2009/04/castle-for-sale-guide-to-buying-a-castle/']here[/URL], which lists some castles for sale (it's old, though, and some of the links don't work, but that's why we have the Wayback Machine, right?). One castle is 37,000 ft.^2; another was 40,902 ft.^2. So possibly your sizes are too big, if you're going for realistic. If you're going for "it's D&D; you need the extra room to swing a sword around," then it's fine. :) [/QUOTE]
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