Castles and Keeps Floorplans

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.

1. Load the desired floor plan from the 5021_castle_keeps/images folder.
2. Marquee select an area 7 squares wide by 10 squares high.
3. Select Copy from Paint's Edit menu.
4. Select New from Paint's File menu. Do not save the original image.
5. Paste the copied selection.
6. Select Page Setup from Paint's File menu and perform steps 7-9.
7. Change the page margins: right and left to .75", top and bottom to .5".
8. Ensure Orientation is Portrait.
9. Set Scaling to "Fit 1 by 1 Page" and press Okay.
10. 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.