Strongholds [Archive] - Wizards Community

Strongholds [Archive] - Wizards Community

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Hastarl
04-14-07, 08:04 AM I've been looking into the guide in creating strongholds and I wondered: How many of you had used this guide to create strongholds either for NPC's or PC's. If so would you care to give us a short review of it to see different examples on how a stronghold might be build.
Davith Bothain
04-14-07, 08:16 AM I presume you are talking about the Stronghold Builder's Guide, in which case I say yes, it gets a good deal of use in creating fortresses and specialized structures of the sort. It doesn't oft come up in play (focus in more on dungeon-delving around here), but I've planned a number of scenarios where a fortress designed using the book (which is still quite useful despite the fact it's 3.0) is besieged Heroes of Battle style.
GoriceXII
04-15-07, 04:54 AM I prefer to use Pendragon's book myself but that is more out of the fact that I know the system a lot better.
taradusis
04-15-07, 03:28 PM I've often thought the prices were a little high and didn't take into account the effects that magic can have on construction.One of my players felt that the most important construction tool was a lyre of building!!A group of giants would be a big help as well,maybe even more than stated in the rules.
Anuvrix
04-16-07, 09:00 AM One of my players built a 3.5 million gold stronghold, spanning almost a square mile. had the best of everything, and a pen for his dragon.
Hastarl
04-16-07, 11:21 AM One of my players built a 3.5 million gold stronghold, spanning almost a square mile. had the best of everything, and a pen for his dragon.

I'd like to see a that in real life :eek:
krichaiushii
04-17-07, 10:39 PM That's nothing... (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/poems/Kubla_Khan.html)

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree :
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round :
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

10 Miles of Walls. Kubla Khan for the win!

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
Hastarl 04-14-07, 08:04 AM	I've been looking into the guide in creating strongholds and I wondered: How many of you had used this guide to create strongholds either for NPC's or PC's. If so would you care to give us a short review of it to see different examples on how a stronghold might be build.
Davith Bothain 04-14-07, 08:16 AM	I presume you are talking about the Stronghold Builder's Guide, in which case I say yes, it gets a good deal of use in creating fortresses and specialized structures of the sort. It doesn't oft come up in play (focus in more on dungeon-delving around here), but I've planned a number of scenarios where a fortress designed using the book (which is still quite useful despite the fact it's 3.0) is besieged Heroes of Battle style.
GoriceXII 04-15-07, 04:54 AM	I prefer to use Pendragon's book myself but that is more out of the fact that I know the system a lot better.
taradusis 04-15-07, 03:28 PM	I've often thought the prices were a little high and didn't take into account the effects that magic can have on construction.One of my players felt that the most important construction tool was a lyre of building!!A group of giants would be a big help as well,maybe even more than stated in the rules.
Anuvrix 04-16-07, 09:00 AM	One of my players built a 3.5 million gold stronghold, spanning almost a square mile. had the best of everything, and a pen for his dragon.
Hastarl 04-16-07, 11:21 AM	One of my players built a 3.5 million gold stronghold, spanning almost a square mile. had the best of everything, and a pen for his dragon. I'd like to see a that in real life :eek:
krichaiushii 04-17-07, 10:39 PM	That's nothing... (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/poems/Kubla_Khan.html) In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. 10 Miles of Walls. Kubla Khan for the win!