Pathfinder City Development Town Houses

Each town house has its own yard, its own earth-closet privy and a brick built storage shed. The central courtyard has communal gardens, shingle paths and a private well for the residents, while each of the alleyways is gated and can be locked shut if needs be. A court like this will probably house a mixture of Experts, Warriors, ‘impoverished’ Aristocrats and successful Commoners– however it will also be home to their families, staff and servants. All together there could be 80-100 people living in a court like this.

Because this example court includes an Inn (an expensive building), it would only have one or two other shops or businesses. Most of the dwellings would be houses. This counts as a 3bp Common Development in my Stolen Lands game.

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Each Town House is built over three floors – the ground floor consists of one large room that serves as the main social area of the house. It has a large fireplace suitable for cooking and a small oven built into the chimney for making bread, pies and jacket potatoes. The middle floor has a number of small, and simply furnished, bedrooms. The top floor loses some space to the roof, but has even smaller rooms that can be used as a bedroom (for a servant, apprentice or child) or a storage area. While each house could lodge ten people, it is more likely to be home to five or six.

A Crafter’s or Merchant’s House follows a similar pattern – however it is set over four floors instead of three. A Crafters House has a craft workshop on the ground floor, with a complete town house on the top three floors. In a merchant’s house, the ground floor consists of a shop front and a storage area, with a complete town house above. There could be

The Inn has a bar, common room and Kitchen on the ground floor, along with a set of four earth closet lavatories in the yard. Upstairs is small suite for the landlord and his family, with half-a-dozen single letting rooms. For a small fee travellers can sleep on the common room floor in front of the fire. Sometimes an itinerant entertainer will swap an evening's work for some food and a sleeping spot - plus whatever he can collect from the customers, of course. The Inn serves a variety of ales, wines and spirits as well as a selection of common and good meals.

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