Re: Re: Tarkalor's Bridge

From: Jane Williams <janewilliams20_at_...>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:40:08 +0000 (GMT)

> In my game it was wide enough for probably 8 men across and was held by a small heroband,
> just the right size for the best fighters in the player group to hold it for a short while
> against a century of hoplites.

> Thinking about it, it may be as well to leave it undefined for narrative reason.

> What I know of engineering though I would expect it has to be larger than 'the 

> bridge of khazad dum' motif. But the size could be fitted to the needs of the
>  narrator as the arguments are valid either way.

Joerg, I think, added the idea that we can have a bridge wide enough for the two wagons it requires as a trade route, but have one point deliberately narrowed for defence purposes. This was apparently done to some C20 bridges during the Cold War. Huge blocks of stone dropped in there, that sort of thing. The size of the gap left is then determined by the GM at the time.