PotatoNinja
2011-10-19, 09:16 PM
Alright, here are the specs for the tower in terms of dimensions. It is 40 stories tall. The stone walls are 15 feet thick at the base and 5 at the top. It is 200 feet at its base above ground, and 480 feet tall. Each floor is 12 feet tall.
It lies in a Metropolis of about 1,250,000 people.
The tower is a neutral ground for all mages, Ala dragonlance. There is no violence within the tower itself and it is a place for study and learning of the high arts.
1. 10 floors at the base that are 200x200 feet
2. 15 floor above that that are160x160
3. 10 floors above those that are 120x120
4. 5 floors above those that are 80x80
The foundation sinks 140 feet into the ground and could have 11 more floors at 240x240, but there are in game reasons why those areas may or may not be safe, hesitant to use them, but if it works in somebodies build, go ahead and throw some suggestion in there.
I am using the Stronghold Builders Guide as a rouge base for sizes, ignore prices, this structure has no limit.
Student Living, The Dorms
SO far i have 8 floors jam packed with servants quarters (housing 4 instead of 60 to avoid double bedding issues and barracks style long rooms) for the students to reside in, they take up floors 3-10. Each floor can house 308 students. This gives me a student population 2464. (i might ass better quality rooms to higher floors for upper level mages/residents/apartments)
Eating Halls
The Mess halls take up 4 of the 15 160x160 floors. Each has 6 maxed out kitchens + Staff, and enough dining room squares to feed around 650 people per floor.(Around 22 components total, taking up 44 ish stronghold spaces.) This feeds every member of the student body and then some.
Class rooms
I plan to have class rooms set aside for every school of magic. I am still uncertain about how to pick these classroom sizes, i think an auditorium would substitute in as a class room if i cut the people from 30 capacity to 20 to account for desk space and what not, or is 30 fine?(30 people in a 20x20 taking notes? Gah! is this realistic?) Which level of floors should these be on?
Libraries
Reserved for later notes, suggestions welcome on size and topic/complexity
Arcane Laboratory
Same as above, i know i will need them, but i haven't begun to scratch the surface on how m,any i will need yet, or how large to make them.
Administrative
The first two floors of the tower will be occupied by administrative. This assumes enrollment, payments student files, Research Grants/Aid, Research Enrolment, and the like. The School's Magic Item shop is located here as well. (thought many mages run their own shops outside the tower.)
What other major components am i missing? I might include alchemy labs in addition to the regular Arcane Labs. Should i add more housing floors to up the number of students? Any thought at all are welcome :D
right above these floors will be 8 floors of housing, and above those is 4 of mess halls. Is this setup ok? any suggestion on maybes squeezing floors around, mixing the orders?
Feeling a bit tipsy and tired, gonna stop posting now before i make an arse of myself, and go back to my grid paper and flesh out a few more floors.:smallredface:
It lies in a Metropolis of about 1,250,000 people.
The tower is a neutral ground for all mages, Ala dragonlance. There is no violence within the tower itself and it is a place for study and learning of the high arts.
1. 10 floors at the base that are 200x200 feet
2. 15 floor above that that are160x160
3. 10 floors above those that are 120x120
4. 5 floors above those that are 80x80
The foundation sinks 140 feet into the ground and could have 11 more floors at 240x240, but there are in game reasons why those areas may or may not be safe, hesitant to use them, but if it works in somebodies build, go ahead and throw some suggestion in there.
I am using the Stronghold Builders Guide as a rouge base for sizes, ignore prices, this structure has no limit.
Student Living, The Dorms
SO far i have 8 floors jam packed with servants quarters (housing 4 instead of 60 to avoid double bedding issues and barracks style long rooms) for the students to reside in, they take up floors 3-10. Each floor can house 308 students. This gives me a student population 2464. (i might ass better quality rooms to higher floors for upper level mages/residents/apartments)
Eating Halls
The Mess halls take up 4 of the 15 160x160 floors. Each has 6 maxed out kitchens + Staff, and enough dining room squares to feed around 650 people per floor.(Around 22 components total, taking up 44 ish stronghold spaces.) This feeds every member of the student body and then some.
Class rooms
I plan to have class rooms set aside for every school of magic. I am still uncertain about how to pick these classroom sizes, i think an auditorium would substitute in as a class room if i cut the people from 30 capacity to 20 to account for desk space and what not, or is 30 fine?(30 people in a 20x20 taking notes? Gah! is this realistic?) Which level of floors should these be on?
Libraries
Reserved for later notes, suggestions welcome on size and topic/complexity
Arcane Laboratory
Same as above, i know i will need them, but i haven't begun to scratch the surface on how m,any i will need yet, or how large to make them.
Administrative
The first two floors of the tower will be occupied by administrative. This assumes enrollment, payments student files, Research Grants/Aid, Research Enrolment, and the like. The School's Magic Item shop is located here as well. (thought many mages run their own shops outside the tower.)
What other major components am i missing? I might include alchemy labs in addition to the regular Arcane Labs. Should i add more housing floors to up the number of students? Any thought at all are welcome :D
right above these floors will be 8 floors of housing, and above those is 4 of mess halls. Is this setup ok? any suggestion on maybes squeezing floors around, mixing the orders?
Feeling a bit tipsy and tired, gonna stop posting now before i make an arse of myself, and go back to my grid paper and flesh out a few more floors.:smallredface: