>DP shows some of the cities having heavy defensive works. I'd hate to make
>them just cramped European style fortress towns.
Look at the open air map for New Pavis for the stone walls that the Sartarites like to use. There's also the map of Jonstown in Heros of Wisdom booklet or the map of Boldhome in Home of the Bold booklet that might be helpful. Their smaller towns are fenced by wooden palisades and ditches, and for this see Hazard Fort in Dorastor: Land of Doom.
>I've described Aldachur to my gamers as having huge earthworks defenses
>(and some walls atop some of them), and being fairly open inside, with
>longhouses and such.
Although you are correct on the longhouses (Glorantha: Intro describes many of the Tarshite cities as "...a patchwork of old Orlanthi longhouses alongside marble-clad buildings", but note that the longhouses are only for the buildings of the rich and famous as most Sartarites live in smaller steads.
I don't see them as being fairly open. Crampness is a fairly common feature of all towns and cities not just medieval ones. Hazard Fort shows every house with its own garden plot but that is a fairly new settlement and the garden plots are inside for security reasons.
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