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Desert ClanHold
🕑 Added 2023-10-05 19:29:13 +0000 UTCSmall mud-brick single-level structures are common among the desert clans – usually with a walled courtyard and an open-ceilinged kitchen area. Some richer households devote half the ground floor to animals and move the majority of the bedrooms to the second floor. To reduce heat, these buildings are typically covered in a thin layer of white gypsum plaster – and the second floor will have significant openings to allow wind to blow through.
These clanholds can be free-standing in small villages or “farms”, but similar designs exist in many desert towns and cities as well.
This example of a ClanHold includes a small stable for either riding & work animals, or for goats attached to the courtyard but not part of the main building. The hearth room has an open ceiling with cloth strips suspended across it to reduce sunlight shining in while allowing smoke and heat to escape.
This particular clanhold has segregated quarters for two family units – one on the north side attached to a crafting workshop, and larger quarters on the south side open to the back hall of the structure. Windows along the east and west walls are all shuttered and contain no glass.
The 1200 dpi versions of the map were drawn at a scale of 300 pixels per square and are 9,000 pixels (30 squares) wide. To use this with a VTT you would need to resize the squares to either 70 pixels (for 5′ squares) or 140 pixels (for 10‘ foot‘ squares) – so resizing the image to 2,100 pixels or 4,200 pixels wide, respectively.
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