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Possible safe havens ? A site with interesting floor plans . http://www.soprisarchitecture.com/Index ... ge0002.htm

If these places have 12 foot walls around the perimeter then yes these would be good safe havens as long as they dont pull a World War Z and pile over the walls.

Tirisilex wrote:If these places have 12 foot walls around the perimeter then yes these would be good safe havens as long as they dont pull a World War Z and pile over the walls.

Got to start some where . Places that already had walls would have many fighting over the place or would of been used from the start as refugee camps and quickly over run by zombies . Its the places out of the way and not thought of by others that characters would have access to . It was just a thought . A source to save GMs time and trouble . They could be used as a place for characters to explore too .

Well In Hollywood practically every house has a wall around it. So It wouldn't be unrealistic for houses like these to have walls. I would definitely use these houses as Safe Havens.

Tirisilex wrote:Well In Hollywood practically every house has a wall around it. So It wouldn't be unrealistic for houses like these to have walls. I would definitely use these houses as Safe Havens.

Some neighborhoods out there Have walls around them . Phoenix area has at least one and from what i remember Riverside Cal had an area . One county school here has high concrete walls around the property and for some odd reason the base ball field here (pop 20,000) at the city park is almost fortress like . Dont see that much in the Detroit area except for maby the zoo and i think a place in Royal Oak . Point is you are right . It can be surpiseing how many places have big concrete or block walls around their property line . And how about these old stone civil war forts , some very large , at state and national parks ? I doubt during the wave they saw alot of sight seers .

The Local Elementary school here has a fenced in area in the back for the playground. Would need to reinforce all the front windows and doors to keep the dead out. It could hold up as a temp safe haven.

The college I went to had a Prison next door to it.. That can hold up well just like in "The Walking Dead"

A Hospital in Franklin has A Bomb shelter in the basement capable of holding about 50 people for several months.. With food and medical care..

Tirisilex wrote:The Local Elementary school here has a fenced in area in the back for the playground. Would need to reinforce all the front windows and doors to keep the dead out. It could hold up as a temp safe haven.

The college I went to had a Prison next door to it.. That can hold up well just like in "The Walking Dead"

A Hospital in Franklin has A Bomb shelter in the basement capable of holding about 50 people for several months.. With food and medical care..

Small farming town im orginally from had a large motel down town with a big bomb shelter with a capacity of 68 and lots of room for storage all under the motel itself . Cold war paranoia could be useful . Back in the 50s 60s and 70s the army corps of engineers had many dam and bridge projects going on across the US and built several bases from which they could house people and equipment for such long term projects . Most were built along rivers (not always big rivers) and were the equivalent of miniature army bases complete with docks and walled perimeters and some even built small airstrips just outside . By the 80s many were abandoned and by the end of the 90s most were left empty . A great many across the country are still there unused and often in fairly remote areas . You would have to resupply but you could have a place worth defending and long term use .

There are also old county jails laying around unused or use for storage after newer more modern facilities were built . Many are still very sound . This could be used as a floor plan for such a place http://www.soprisarchitecture.com/Index ... ge0027.htm . Old county foot ball stadiums were usually out side the county seat and built of concrete block and again with block walls around them . Again many left unused after newer sites were built . Often they had small community parks built around them .

J.L. Duncan wrote:Don't forget-

Even if a property had a simple link fence and a lot of ground space or lawn between that and the building/house/structure-it may be a semi-effective barrier as well-as long as the fence to lawn to house ration was beyond the (glowworm) zombies sense range.

Very true . And that may buy you time to prepare additional protection from bandits and cults .

Did some lookin around found this for safe havens:

http://djstormsblog.com/2012/03/26/the- ... oof-house/

Here is another one:

http://christwire.org/2012/06/christwir ... ie-plague/

Tirisilex wrote:Did some lookin around found this for safe havens:

http://djstormsblog.com/2012/03/26/the- ... oof-house/

There are alot of old missile silos like that out there hidden and empty . Good find .

This place is good as well.

http://www.realtor.com/news/maine-house ... on-center/

A small island is great.. But what if they pull a Land of the Dead and walk under water to get to you. There are some cliffs around some of the island may need to build some walls at the more unprotected area but over all a great Safe Haven.

Here are some cool ones:

http://zombiesafehouse.wordpress.com/

I like this one:

http://zombiesafehouse.wordpress.com/z1680/

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Trent wrote:

Tirisilex wrote:Did some lookin around found this for safe havens:

http://djstormsblog.com/2012/03/26/the- ... oof-house/

There are alot of old missile silos like that out there hidden and empty . Good find .

The fun part about this is before the Wave people with a lot of cash could buy abandoned missile silos and bunkers, though nothing more advanced than, say, a Titan II missile silo (Which has been obsolete for some time now...). Former military bunkers like these are often famous because some would turn these dilapidated (And often heavily-vandalized... ) bunkers into disaster shelters, secure storage, and similar such places. One real-world website, which has just been modded recently, is available at http://www.missilebases.com/, and is a place where such bunker complexes are marketed out to individuals who can present the money to pay for them. I find that websites like these give me a lot of ideas for my hobbies, and would be useful if someone came across such a facility in a Dead Reign campaign. Still, please take care; thanks a bunch, and have a good day.

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Trent wrote:Possible safe havens ? A site with interesting floor plans . http://www.soprisarchitecture.com/Index ... ge0002.htm

Trent wrote:There are also old county jails laying around unused or use for storage after newer more modern facilities were built . Many are still very sound . This could be used as a floor plan for such a place http://www.soprisarchitecture.com/Index ... ge0027.htm . Old county foot ball stadiums were usually out side the county seat and built of concrete block and again with block walls around them . Again many left unused after newer sites were built . Often they had small community parks built around them .

Great thread everybody! I couldn't reach the websites that I listed in this reply, but I was able to scrounge up a URL for accessing information about a variety of building designs from the same architectural firm. Sopris Architecture's buildings can be accessed at http://www.soprisarchitecture.com/index_files/Page408.htm. Anyway, if you couldn't access the links above, the link I am providing will at least give you an idea about where to start. Please take care; thanks a bunch, and have a good afternoon.

A junkyard use the excavator to trench a fifteen foot wide twenty foot deep barrier around the place. Plant fast growing crops. Beans corn cannibus rats rabbits and unfortunately cats.
You have your little island of happiness easily defended until some psycho scavengers come by in military helicopters and bomb you out.

Our group took over Gavins Point Hydroelectric dam. Its built like a bunker. Got one genny up and running so we had power for lights and heat (and anything else since we were generating enough for thousands of homes that were no longer using any.)

Was the perfect safe haven. Flat roof to grow veggies and raise chickens and rabbits. All the fish you can (catch and) eat. Plenty of room inside for gardens with electric and natural light. Great sight lines to see anybody coming. Fenced off parking area and some workable land. Other workable land just outside the fence that could be worked with very minimal risk. Many surrounding farms (on the nebraska side) which could be worked with some effort. Campgrounds nearby with frisbee golf courses and jungle gyms for recreation.