D&D General Strahd Castle Ravenloft in 3d glory!

EN World member shoak1 created this awesome 3D model of Castle Ravenloft -- "Just about to start my Ravenloft campaign, and here is the castle I built to use. It's a playable surface, room numbers are shown with white tags for reference (1 square=1 inch=5 feet). I had to keep it to half height to preserve building materials, so its only 160' tall sans dungeon levels, 32" tall."

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View from top


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entryway


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chapel, K15


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main floor, map 3


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court of the count, 2nd story, map 4


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Rooms of weeping, 3rd floor, map 5
(maps 6-10 are in towers and playable surfaces/decorated, but I didn't take pics of them


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Larders of ill omen, dungeon level 1, map 11


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Bottom floor dungeon/catacombs, map 12​

 

[Faenor]

Warwick Castle in England is the tallest in the UK at 128 ft. Castles typically seem to max out at 95-110 feet tall.

Meanwhile, Castle Ravenloft is 360 feet tall.

A few cathedrals can be taller. But these are typically heavily buttressed with a single large tower. Ulm church, the tallest, has a slender tower-in-a-tower for support.

Ravenloftt is more Neuschwanstein aesthetic, and the heights of the towers are in the same range.

 

[Jester David]

Ravenloftt is more Neuschwanstein aesthetic, and the heights of the towers are in the same range.

That's a much more modern castle. Late 1800s construction.
Even then, the main palace has twice as many floors for a similar height and the highest tower only reaches 213 feet, being a good 147 feet smaller than the highest tower of Ravenloft. Strahd built a castle 40% taller.

 

[Faenor]

Ravenloftt is more Neuschwanstein aesthetic, and the heights of the towers are in the same range.

Ok, 're-reading. You said 360'. Neuschwanstein 213'.

 

[Faenor]

Right, our replies crossed.

On the subject of era though. There's electrical wiring in the death house, and the clothing styles match I think eastern European styles of the 1800s. I prefer more 1300's fantasy, but to each his own.

 

[Jester David]

Ok, 're-reading. You said 360'. Neuschwanstein 213'.

Fun size comparison (cause I nerd about this stuff):
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Not perfect since I'm hampered by my mobile photo-manipulation software. But it gives you the idea.

 

[LordEntrails]

Beautiful work! Congrats, and your players are very fortunate

Who cares about Ravenloft's height vs. mundane castles? One is in fantasy, the others are not. One has magic to call upon to build and reinforce, the others do not. Fantasy... Fiction... Imagination!

Back to what's important... Amazing job, two pats from me

 

[Manoel Neto]

I REALLY want PDFS for this.

 

[Bugleyman]

Wow! Hats off to you, sir!

 

[Faenor]

Fun size comparison (cause I nerd about this stuff):
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Not perfect since I'm hampered by my mobile photo-manipulation software. But it gives you the idea.

Nice. Thank you!

 

[Ancalagon]

Fun size comparison (cause I nerd about this stuff):
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Not perfect since I'm hampered by my mobile photo-manipulation software. But it gives you the idea.

Well done! Those curtain walls are ridiculously high...

That being said, I can't help but note that it's still shorter than St-Peter's basilica...

Buuuut I'm not sure is a "valid" argument that it's not too big. I've very recently had the pleasure of visiting said basilica and it is *stupid* big. You cannot understand how massive it is, despite knowing how tall it is, having seen photos etc, until you are inside. Should Strad's castle be on such a scale? Why?

I think that perhaps a more reasonable way would have been to put the castle on top of a volcanic spur, like so:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trosky_Castle Or perhaps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Michel_d'Aiguilhe

Then there can be dungeons built in the spur.