Good castle maps

[Tiny Coffee Golem]

Is there a resource anywhere with good maps of castles? Preferably with grid lines. They don't have to be fully fleshed out. Just a shell k can print out and let the players decide what to do with it.

[Kayerloth]

Columbia Games Harnworld Materials contain numerous detailed maps of castles.

[Gilarius]

Have you tried using real castles?
Generally, ground plans are available for most of them. Plus histories, personalities of note, etc.

[avr]

Google image search can bring up maps if you're willing to quickly scroll thru the crud.

[Kthulhu]

You can probably download maps of Castle Wolfenstein. As a bonus, you can get a more 3D feel for them by playing the appropriate games (Wolfenstein 3D, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, and Wolfenstein:The Old Blood are the ones that actually visit the castle itself).

[gamer-printer]

I have a Gothic Castle map set available from DTRPG for $2.99 - it includes 4 upper stories: main hall, palace level, residential level and rooftop, 2 lower levels: cellar and dungeon, castle ground map with stables, servants quarters, coach barn and well. Its fully furnished, photo-realistic with grids for printable sliced letter size pieces, a full size (not sliced) encounter scale map, and VT-ready maps (all inside a Zip file)

[Tinalles]

Castle Venatris. I made this one for my own campaign. It's closely based on the floorplan of Castle Warwick in England.

It may be larger than you need -- 140 inches by 100 inches if printed out. Since I made it for use in a virtual tabletop, print size was not a concern. But you could crop it and print out the main keep easily enough.

The decor may not suit your campaign. I believe some of the earlier renditions in the linked thrad are un-furnished, though.

[I'm Hiding In Your Closet]

My contribution: The castle maps from the Might & Magic games. You can look them up fairly easily.

They kind of come in four categories:

The castles from Secret of the Inner Sanctum: Poorly sketched out and a bit bland. That isn't to say they're not worth looking at, though.

The castles from Gates to Another World and Isles of Terra: Much better sketched out, dual layered (court and dungeon) with a simple, smallish layout. The upper levels tend to be what you'd expect of nice castle layouts, the dungeons tend to deviate more, whether serving as literal dungeon, greedy ruler's treasury, near-featureless stomping ground for very large monsters, witch's laboratory, enchanted maze, or whatever.

The castles from Clouds of Xeen and Darkside of Xeen: Multilayered, with dungeons at the bottom and the upper layers tending to bud off into small tower-like structures independent of one another. Great for hosting heroic rescues and climactic showdowns!

The castles from The Mandate of Heaven, For Blood and Honor, and Day of the Destroyer: Okay, now we're starting to look like REAL castles - if they were designed by a baroque lunatic, inhabited by a baroque lunatic, or both! Your PCs will have fun, but DMing architecture like this is not for the faint of heart!

[Ezunmaker]

Try this:

http://www.dungeonmastering.com/tools-resources/387-free-dd-maps

[Tiny Coffee Golem]

Thanks everyone!

[Dave Justus]

All my castle maps are evil aligned. Sorry.

[Mark Hoover]

Dave Justus wrote:

All my castle maps are evil aligned. Sorry.

You stole my joke but its still hilarious

[Thanael]

Gothic Castle Map set by gamerprinter. Its huge i hear and cheap.

[Kthulhu]

Kthulhu wrote:

You can probably download maps of Castle Wolfenstein. As a bonus, you can get a more 3D feel for them by playing the appropriate games (Wolfenstein 3D, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, and Wolfenstein: The Old Blood are the ones that actually visit the castle itself).

I really should have just made this video games in general. Just happened to be playing W:TOB at the moment, and the opening approach to the castle is pretty awesome.

Another video game that has a great exterior view of a Castle is Castlevania: Lords of Shadow.

But you're looking more for interior maps, so I digress.