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Well, I'm about to start my final project for the graduation about architecture in games and needed help with this:

I mean, it's gothic architecture, but is there any particular castle that Ravenloft is inspired on? I've been lookinng for pictures of Bran's Castle because Dracula and stuff, but it doesn't seem right.

Is Ravenloft inspired in one castle or a specific country architecture? Is this information written in any of the Ravenloft books?
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YelniPeto wrote:Well, I'm about to start my final project for the graduation about architecture in games and needed help with this:

I mean, it's gothic architecture, but is there any particular castle that Ravenloft is inspired on? I've been lookinng for pictures of Bran's Castle because Dracula and stuff, but it doesn't seem right.

Is Ravenloft inspired in one castle or a specific country architecture? Is this information written in any of the Ravenloft books?
I believe the tower of Castle Ravenloft would be close to impossible to build in medieval times, it is too high and if you take on account that it is build on rock I believe it would be equivalent to a medieval "7 wonders of the ancient world".

It is inspired by movie/fictional depictions of Castle Dracula.
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SPAMMER ALERT!

The first post was copy-pasted from another board: https://www.reddit.com/r/ravenloft/comm ... _from_the/

User was banned, but post kept and displayed here for information (along its ugly head on a spike, to fend off trolls).

Be watchfull for this new kind of spammer. Report spam links inside a message even if the message is RL retlated (either inside a message, at its end, or in the signature) : they copy stuff from other boards and post them here.

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Don't these people have anything better to do...?
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Ask them :)

But the worse really is those guys posting links to their DM Guilds stuff, report them! ;)

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Rock wrote:Don't these people have anything better to do...?
They start interesting discussions, I am not going to lie...
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