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    Nov/Dec 2020 Challenge: Tavaroth Throne Room

    Tiana commissioned me to create a battlemap of the throne room of the Tavaroth Palace she sketched up years ago.

    Here is her original sketch:
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    Here is my first WIP with just the floors and walls.
    The colors and textures will all be changed several times before I am through,
    just wanted to get the basic layout in place.

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    Nice! I will be sure to keep an eye on what you create.

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    Today I worked on tiles and objects in the correct color scheme.
    Ti, are the colored bricks in the center OK or are the colors to bright?

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    That looks perfect to me for the colored bricks!

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    The main thing I did was add in the doors & windows.

    Is the Main entrance supposed to be offset, or should it be centered with the Throne?

    And I did have some other questions.

    I have 4 different bathtubs, which one do you prefer? Are there supposed to be tubs or just 4 toilets.

    I searched through my libraries for any furniture that was minimal or no wood.
    Are there some pieces you like a lot and some that you don't like at all?

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    Yes, the main entrance is supposed to be offset. Actually, there's probably a little horizontal wall preventing people from walking straight in without filtering past guards, and to enable staff to sneak off to the left and enter discretely. Otherwise the throne room looks spectacular, I love the textures and windows you added. Even how the throne room floor texture cuts off in the smaller rooms, because everyone agrees it would be just Way Too Much Gold. That kind of gold marble is spot on.

    Now the bathrooms, what I drew had a bathtub separate from a space with two sinks and two toilets. It's not actually a men's and women's washroom, it's more like 'this is the one for the inner palace staff and this is the one for the guards who work on the throne room/courtyard'. Bathing is important to their culture, and nudity is less of a taboo in the context of bathing, so it's just a shared back room for bathing for anyone who needs it. What you did, making a separate toilet and a separate bath, is pretty much what I had intended.

    If you want them to be uniform, go with the gold marble, that's so ostentatious. And then maybe use the split basin as the sinks? I really like the split basin too. It is okay if it's a bit patchy. This is the 'wandering' city and uh, I mean, they steal things as well as produce them, uniformity is desired but not always obtained.

    Since you gave me a wide array of furniture to pick from before you arrange it, I marked which ones I particularly liked, which ones would work if they were either re-tinted or organized specifically in the yellow-orange-red-green-blue-grey pattern in part or in whole... for the most part they were good! Only a couple I didn't particularly feel were right... I wasn't feeling the square on the grey table and I didn't want to set you to making an hourglass to be thematically appropriate when you found so much other great work to use. And I personally love the rune tables, but to be setting appropriate I'd want to edit them to have the correct con-script on the trim... and again I just think that's ridiculous to ask of you when you found those awesome engraved stone tables/coffins, which are PERFECT.

    I like the battlemap table, if it's intended to be a war game in the staff room then you should leave it because I love the idea that the palace guards are playing some in universe RPG in their downtime. If you want a map on a table, I put Eowyn Skywalker's topography of Tavaroth onto a damaged parchment and resized it to be appropriate to drop in somewhere.
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    Good start ! I love the shadows of the windows on the palace’s floor !

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    This is gonna be a nice throne room .

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    Nice work so far! I'm massively digging the map on the table. A map within a map! Where does it end...?!
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