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I just wanted to let you all know that I’ve made a bunch of modular PDF fill-out forms for use with “A Ghastly Companion to Castles, Mansions, & Estates”. They’re called Ghastly Affair Location Catalogues , and will guide you step-by-step through the process of creating imaginary Grand Houses for games set in the late 18th to early 19th century era. After you’ve created a house, the Location Catalogue becomes a systematic record that can be later referenced during game play. Whether you work with an existing map, or create a map from the Catalogue, the forms allow you to define practically everything about the house and its inhabitants – including any restless ghosts!
There are three main sets, which are all available on a Pay-What-You-Want basis:
The “Ghastly Affair Location Catalogue – Castle” will help you create a Concentric, Compact, or Courtyard Castle – or a Fortified House.
The “Ghastly Affair Location Catalogue – Mansion” will help you create a grand urban dwelling, such as an English Townhouse, Italian Palazzo, or French Hôtel Particulier.
The “Ghastly Affair Location Catalogue – Estate House” will help you create an English Country House, Italian Villa, French Château, or a similar aristocratic home in the countryside.
And if you want to define your house in extreme detail, I’ve made three supplemental forms to be used as needed:
The “Ghastly Affair Location Catalogue – Interior Room” has lines for recording almost every possible characteristic of an important area inside your house.
The “Ghastly Affair Location Catalogue – Garden Features” lets you define and work out the relative locations of individual features in each garden area of your house’s parkland.
The “Ghastly Affair Location Catalogue – Tower Interior” defines the rooms inside stand-alone towers, of the type that might be found along the outer defensive walls of a medieval Concentric Castle.
I absolutely love these! The only nitpick I really have is that maybe the family section should be its own catalogue with a small section in each one for, say, which family is at the location at the time? This came about because I made a fairly large family (gotta love the random rolls!) and there wasn’t enough space for everyone.
Thank you! And I’ll definitely keep your observation in mind for any possible future redesign. Or maybe another supplemental sheet.