Monday, February 17, 2020

Liches Lair - Part 1 - Rooms and Math

This will end up being multiple posts. It is just a rough idea, so far, of what type of rooms I could put into such a "building".

Originally, I was going to use the Stronghold Builders Guidebook but I could only find 4 rooms in that source that would be fitting.

With Pathfinder, via the d20pfsrd website, I was able to find thirteen rooms (one per scute) with a type of room too.

Unfortunately, Pathfinder does room sizes in five-foot squares whereas The Stronghold Builders Guidebook does room sizes by stronghold space. One stronghold space is the equivalent of 400 square feet which is 16 five-foot squares.

I want the Liches Lair to be on the back of a Gargantuan sized sea turtle, not a tortoise. Gargantuan is thirty-two to sixty-four feet long and since turtles are round that would be the diameter of their shell. Doing the math! Pi times 32 squared is three thousand two hundred plus square feet or one hundred twenty-eight five-foot squares. Pi times sixteen squared is only eight-hundred plus square feet for thirty-two five-foot squares minimum. This does allow the Stronghold Builders Guidebook four rooms to fit upon the Gargantuan shell.


Room 5 ft. Squares Reason for the room
Grotto -- Makes Lair look natural
Alter 2-8 To give thanks for rebirth
Book Repository 4-12 Hold journals, maps, and other non-magical writings
Crypt 8-30 An undead should have a crypt
Dock 10-30 Eventually will have to leave the Zaratan
Forge 8-16 Make metal weapons and nails to build a ship
Magical Repository 4-12 Magical writings and item crafting
Scriptorium 5-16 To write in
Scrying room 4-16 To Scry, usually on enemies
Sewing room 6-16 To make clothing and sails
Storage 4-8 Obvious reason
Summoning Chamber 6-16 To Summon assistants
Vault 4-8 Phylactery and reincarnation
Workstation 8-16 To build boat to return to the greater world

The totals of the 5 ft. Squares column has a range of seventy-three to two-hundred which fits within the Gargantuan size parameters of thirty-two to one-hundred twenty-eight.

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