Description:
Outline: 32 floorplans of medieval fortresses
Format: HTML, viewed with internet browser
Contents:
- Five fortifications, elaborately detailed in 32 separate floorplans.
- Over 400 concisely described areas, rooms and buildings.
- Listing of every floorplan for immediate, single-click access.
- A thumbnail gallery for each fortification provides convenient floorplan overview, size comparison, and fast, single-click floorplan access.
- A map legend of the floorplan symbols.
Printing Floor Plans at One-Inch Squares:
Any art program will work. This example prints a floor plan using Windows ? Paint.
- Load the desired floor plan from the 5021_castle_keeps/images folder.
- Marquee select an area 7 squares wide by 10 squares high.
- Select Copy from Paint's Edit menu.
- Select New from Paint's File menu. Do not save the original image.
- Paste the copied selection.
- Select Page Setup from Paint's File menu and perform steps 7-9.
- Change the page margins: right and left to .75", top and bottom to .5".
- Ensure Orientation is Portrait.
- Set Scaling to "Fit 1 by 1 Page" and press Okay.
- Print the floor plan.
Grimbarith Keep:
The "crown of the hill", Grimbarith is a compact and functional keep standing upon a high prominence.
- Detailed in seven floorplans.
- Contains 130 concisely described areas, rooms and buildings.
- Consists of two round towers, one elongated tower, one small rectangular tower, two catapult
landings, a small gatehouse, a large rectangular tower main keep, four sections of curtain
wall, fifteen bailey buildings and an exterior ramp leading up to the gatehouse.
Halestrom Castle:
The "castle upon the lake", Halestrom is an enormous and mighty bastion capable of housing, or defending against, an army.
- Detailed in five floorplans.
- Contains 137 concisely described areas, rooms and buildings.
- Consists of four octagonal towers, four interior compartments, one large
rectangular tower, one medium rectangular tower, four small rectangular staircase towers, a great gatehouse, a large gatehouse, eight sections of curtain wall, ten bailey buildings, a wide, filled moat, an exterior causeway with a small gate, and an interim landing in front of the great gatehouse.
Lurfell Tower:
A fortress worthy of a master sorcerer, Lurfell Tower is a powerful and forbidding structure rising eight stories above the ground.
- Detailed in ten floorplans.
- Contains 60 concisely described areas and rooms.
- Consists of a singular tower containing ten levels.
Pelgurn Tower:
An old yet formidable fortress, Pelgurn is a transitional tower that bears the scars of countless battles.
- Detailed in five floorplans.
- Contains 33 concisely described areas and rooms.
- Consists of a singular tower containing five levels.
Roshefain Keep:
- Detailed in five floorplans.
- Contains 44 concisely described areas, rooms and buildings.
- Consists of two small rectangular towers, a medium rectangular tower main keep, a small
rounded tower, four sections of curtain wall, four bailey buildings and an exterior barbican
leading to the gateway.
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