Places That Feel D&D to You

[El Mahdi]

Warwick Castle in Warwick, England is a good D&D castle also. Where Carcasone is the forbidding stone castle of the movies, Warwick is the tapestries on the walls, expensive dark wood furniture, walls covered floor to ceiling in framed oil paintings, and tall darkwood bookcased full of varied tomes. The grounds are massive, with peacocks roaming the castle environs and a large greenhouse once reserved for the private pleasure of the royal family. Warwick castle was famous for the "The Kingmaker" Earl of Warwick from "War of the Roses" fame.

I also visited a Bhudist shrine outside of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was in a cave with a 50 ft. open ceiling about 100' high. The cave was full of bats on the ceiling overhangs and had wild monkeys and chickens (yes - real wild chickens) running helter skelter. It would have made a great lost cave with an idol to some lost god.

P.S.: Carcasone is the city seen in the Kevin Costner movie of Robin Hood. You see a lot of the walls, chapel and chateu courtyard, and the chapel itself in the movie.

Scribble, I incorporate stuff like the stairs into my games also. I love giving the bad guys stuff like this for a "homefield" advantage.

 

[Oni]

Where I live does in some ways. There aren't any castles or ruins lying about, no antiquated villages. I live in the appalachian mountains in Virginia and it is so heartbreakingly beautiful I find myself just standing outside the house sometimes staring off in any number of directions stuck by an incredible sense of awe. The steep rocky hills and lush green forest have a timelessness and mystery to them I've never really experienced anywhere else. I've often thought it would be an amazing backdrop for a fantasy movie.

Plus on the drive to town, next to the road is a cave with a door hanging off the entrance, evidently someone (or something ) used to live there?

 

[El Mahdi]

. . . Plus on the drive to town, next to the road is a cave with a door hanging off the entrance, evidently someone (or something ) used to live there?

Maybe "IT" still does! Muahahahahaha

 

[Tinker Gnome]

One time I saw an area of trees(Not big enough to be called a forest really, maybe a copse?) alongside the road and for some reason I could jut picture a DnD adventuring group wandering through it. Also, any time I see an open field or forest when it is foggy or overcast reminds me of DnD.

 

[Henry]

Surprised no one's said it yet, but the Sedlec Ossuary in Prague - whatever the D&D movie did WRONG, they filmed part of it on one FREAKING AWESOME real-world set.

Wieliczka Salt Mine - it's almost TWO HUNDRED MILES LONG, with salt carvings and artwork hundreds of years old.

 

[Wicht]

Add another vote for Carlsbad Caverns.

Also, Cooper's Rock east of Morgantown, WV. The rocks around that park make for some great scenery.

 

[Fallen Seraph]

Ugh forgotten the name of the island but there is an island in the Atlantic Ocean that looks like something out of the Feywild, it is covered in mist and extremely dense greenery, huge trees, etc.

 

[S. Baldrick]

The La Sal Mountains in Southern Utah were I grew up.
The mountains along the Wasatch range where I live now.
My friend Gregg's parent's house were we played so many games back in the 1980's.
My friend Brad's parent's house were I played my first D&D games.
Lucerne, Switzerland, where I visited when I was 17.

 

[Haffrung Helleyes]

The desert city of Jaisalmer in Rajasthan, India
Angkor Wat, Cambodia
The Potala, in Lhasa, Tibet
Thorong La in the Himalayas
Phuktal Gompa in Ladakh, India
Machu Picchu

 

[Haffrung Helleyes]

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