Dungeon Building: Creating the Citadel
It's good to be back in the saddle, working on more episodes of Stories From The First Watch, after a short hiatus. I've been especially looking forward to the next few episodes, as they draw upon some real-life inspiration I received whilst on holiday in France last year. I visited an amazing citadel in the town of Entrevaux in the foothills of the Alps, about an hour's drive from Nice. It's a 17th century citadel, built on top of a steep hillside. It took twenty very breathless minutes to reach the main gatehouse, and even then I wasn't at the summit. It is a beautiful sight, and I tried to describe it as accurately as I could in the podcast. What really intrigued me was that there was an interpretative board that showed the floorplan of the site, which looked very, very similar to a D&D dungeon floorplan. That gave me an idea - why not use this as the basis for a dungeon crawl? The last one of these, the Halls of Kharamund, was created from scratch using D...
