D&D General Manor maps

[J-H]

I am planning an upcoming campaign that could involve infiltration and/or attack of multiple noble families living in the same city. I don't want to re-use the same map, and I also don't want to have to re-invent the layout of a 20-50 room manor every single time. Most of the "manor" maps on the DM's Guild seem to only be 10-15 rooms and 2 stories, which isn't large enough to plausibly hold a family (2-3 generations/5-15 members), their servants, their bodyguards and retainers, enough space to host a formal feast or dinner for 30-60 people, etc.

Any recommendations? I don't need anything on a grid or for any of the VTTs as I just use Excel for mapping, so I'm mostly looking for floorplans/layouts.

 

[LordEntrails]

Honestly if a quick look at Google & Reddit doesn't give me what I want, I just create it myself. Here's a quick search result that looks promising to me, though I doubt you are going to find ones with as many rooms as you want. 20-50 rooms seems much larger than my limited experience with European medieval and renaissance period architecture would indicate would be found any city of the period except for a very few palaces. TAke a look at these: big manor house layout battlemap - Google Search

There are so many cheap or free mapping tools that if you don't care about styles and variety are easy to use that you can put together a custom map in an hour or less. See this

 

[Scott Christian]

Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna might be what you are looking for. Incredible, and definitely has the size and scale you're looking for.
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This is just the main area, it does not include the two giant worker stables and the enormous garden in the back. It is a truly impressive place.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Suggestion 1: use plans of real buildings.

Suggestion 2: Keys from the Golden Vault has some maps that might be useful.

 

[aco175]

I pulled a couple like this from Dyson's Logos.

 

[J-H]

Did you happen to have a specific source for those, or are these just particular buildings you were familiar with? Both look great!

 

[aco175]

This site has some good plans including Hogwarts and the Biltmore Estate.

This is the regular basement and not the sub-basement. I like all the servant rooms and utility rooms that would be filled with commoners doing the daily tasks, surprised to see adventurers traipsing about.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Did you happen to have a specific source for those, or are these just particular buildings you were familiar with? Both look great!

Well Hampton Court Palace is a pretty well known building! But it certainly helps with the descriptions if you know the place.

 

[J-H]

This site has some good plans including Hogwarts and the Biltmore Estate.

PERFECT! Thank you.

 

[LordEntrails]

This site has some good plans including Hogwarts and the Biltmore Estate.

Awesome resource. Thanks. Bookmarked!