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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Starmaster" data-source="post: 9682084" data-attributes="member: 7042521">The module map on page 20 reflects something that I've always liked about module maps made by UK authors rather than US authors.  The maps of castles and other fortifications usually LOOKED more like realistic castles and fortifications, with a logical layout for defense, thick walls, arrow slits, support columns for large chambers, exterior buttresses, and such.  For other examples, look at Alderweg keep in module UK3: "The Gauntlet" which came from the UK division of TSR as well as the town of Eylea in UK module I8: "Ravager of Time".  Fortress maps appearing in those TSR modules that were designed by American authors were often drawn as a something like a simple square with thin lines for outside walls and a random jumble of rooms & corridors on the inside.  There are exceptions to the latter, of course.  For example the maps of Strahd's castle in I6 and the various maps in N3: "Destiny of Kings" are reasonably believable.</blockquote>