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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 1924250" data-attributes="member: 99">One of the jobs of GMing that I seem to enjoy is mapping, so I may take a stab at a "sample district" during my free time over the next week or so.  I'll be sure to post whatever I come up with here at ENWorld.In the mean time, I've done some sketching with a scale here for a few minutes and have come up with some very general baseline assumptions you can keep in mind (if my math and measurements are correct):According to the section on City Architecture (p35), the largest towers are some 2,500 feet in diameter at the base and narrow to 600 feet in diameter at the top.  Assuming that this structure rises to a height of 5,000 feet then we can derive some information from this.If we assume that the biggest towers are built base to base or nearly so then that means the distance from the top edge of one to the top edge of another is going to be approximately 1,900 feet.  Going down the tower by approximately 1/3 (and calling that the approximate start of the Middle Ward) then we have an average distance between the largest towers of around 1,200 feet.  Going down another 1/3 to the start of the Lower Ward this distance falls to 600 feet.  So even from one large tower to the next in the lower wards we have a bridge extending the length of two (american) football fields.  Manifest zone or no, that's a helluva long bridge!We can cut these unsupported spans down a bit further if we make a couple other assumptions.  First it seems not unreasonable that smaller towers will jut from the sides of these larger towers and can act as supports for these bridges.  If we assume that these smaller towers rise the entire height of a ward (approximately 1/3 the entire height of a large tower) then we get the following:At the top of the upper wards the support towers extend out around 350 feet, cutting the unsupported length of a brigde to the next large tower to only 1,200 feet.  At the middle wards it cuts the bridge length in half to around 600 feet.  For the lower wards we now have pretty reasonable distances of only about 300 feet and it is far easier to imagine intermediate supports to cut this down even further.The most stunning aspect of this analysis is that distance connecting the tops of the upper wards.  A 1,200 (quarter mile) bridge boggles my mind just a bit and I think I'm going to stick with my earlier assessment that these are few and far between, with most travel between towers of the upper ward being by Skycoach or winged steed.  Alternately those afraid of flying could simply use the nearest lift or stairs to descend to a lower area that has a bridge of less mind numbing unsupported length.For those few places where such enormous bridges do exist, I think I'm going to adopt the idea that there ARE supports either by way of permenantly enchanted sections of bridge or by tall, narrow support towers that have exceptionally thick walls.  These could serve all the functions of a normal tower but would have a lot less habitable space within them due to the smaller starting diameter as well as the thicker walls.  They would also be ideal places to have lots of structures having been built to hang off the exterior of the tower.Lastly, when they talk about virtually all "streets" being enclosed, I'm assuming that they are talking about what we would traditionally think of as hallways or corridors within the towers themselves.  I picture these as being similar to the center walkways of your local mall.If you consider the sheer size of a 2,500 foot diameter tower that rises 5,000 feet into the air, the huge majority of rooms will be windowless and on the interior, accessable only by these streets.  When I think about this it makes me want to add sizable holes in the sides of some of the towers to allow places where at least a bit of sunshine can penetrate at odd times of the day (and year), plus allow a breath of fresh air once in a while.But maybe I'm just claustrophobic.  Arcology life is not for me I guess. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I'll post more thoughts if I have them and see if I get a chance to gin up some kind of map.  Is there a particular part of the city that somebody would like to see mapped?</blockquote>

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