Tech Level for a Fantasy Setting

[jason taylor]

Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth

And it's not like fortresses went away, or stopped being built. The designs changed to better resist and utilize artillery, so they didn't look like what we think of as a castle anymore past a certain point...

The social changes also made it much less likely over time that a new fortress would be built as the seat of a land-holding lord, which often was the role of earlier castles.

Military fortresses would not be built as the seat of a land-holding lord. Obviously many land-holding lords would still have interest in keeping a rock from a disgruntled tenant from coming through the window.