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Slightly off-topic but I've been thinking about making a castle-design system the same way. Start with a basic keep, then add things like external walls, fortified gates, etc. as Cost Factors.

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Somewhere, I've got an article I never submitted to Pyramid which takes a modular approach, providing pre-built components from which to build a castle: pick some options for materials and "weight" of fortification (that is, short, narrow walls vs. high thick ones), then just buy towers and keeps from a table and y yards of curtain wall.

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That's how Swedish D&D handled it. And each component had a Troop Strength which added to defending force (provided the component was fully manned).

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Somewhere around the depths of my PC is a draft for a village building system, which is technically accurate but suffers from being able to curdle milk at 50 paces.

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Which is why you should never offend a witch while you're working on an article.

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I seem to remember a similarly modular system in first-edition AD&D's DMG.

Making the pieces, using the rules in the Low Tech Companions, should just be a labor of love and math.

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I swear I got into trouble every week with my mother because I was always in my room building castles with this system. Every. Week.

(She wanted me to be "normal." I never did quite manage that.)

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Same. Hard same.

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The problem for many enthusiasts (such, I confess, as myself), including GURPS book authors, is that the distinctions and features that one cares about in ones profession or hobby are, in a dispassionate appreciation, quite a bit less significant than +1 on a 3d6 under/over or typical GURPS damage roll. A lot of GURPS' forbidding mass is an accumulation of enthusiasts' darlings that ought to have been ruthlessly rounded off.

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Or are much more situational than a simple bonus. For example, at a distance of 20 yards, the difference between 1 MoA and 5 MoA is an inch, which isn't going to make a measurable difference unless you're trying to hit eyes or shoot fingers off, but at 1,000 yards it matters quite a bit.