Gotta respect the spiral. Not once have I used a staircase from which you can see the bottom floor and not had intrusive thoughts about dropping something or myself.
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Balustrade.
Balustrade gang rise up!
Obviously correct choice
Converging is sexy, but the second I go to commit, Gallery is like, why don't you come peek under my staircase.
Newel feels the most medieval to me, as it's what has been used in every cathedral spire I've visited, but balustrade is so cool
Balaustrade gives me this impression...
A picture really is worth a thousand words. Nailed my exact impression haha
🤣🤣🤣
Fuck, these are all bangers.
If I rememeber, I'll edit after further deliberation.
Nevel obviously. Especially becaude it always turns to the right so it's easier to fight downwards with the sword in your right hand then upwards.
Yeah! Take that, lefty scum!
I feel like I just leveled up my descriptive abilities for RPG DMing purposes.
Gallery, converging, or balustrade, but you can't make me choose, I can't choose just one.
Spiral or Newel. They FEEL so Medieval.
There's no debate, spiral counter-clockwise is both aesthetically pleasing and offers the best defense against sword-bearing invaders.
Converging, the more the better. Then figure out how long it takes a slinky to traverse each path to have a slinky pileup at the convergence point.
Newel because I could never walk on one not thinking about clearing corners with my bow looking for goblins
I was going to say Newel because I'm right-handed, and I bet it would be easier for right-handers to defend going down rather than attackers going up using a sword. I might be overthinking it though.
Gotta be gallery unless you're under attack, then it's newel all the way
Newels so knights couldn't have their sworn in the best hand going upwards (you'd have to use the left hand, and that was something knights just wouldn't do, it meant dying)
Toss up between converging and balustrade.
Arcade for outside, converging for the main entrance hall, and gallery for everywhere else inside
Newel, although climbing Ulm 20 years ago scarred my psyche
Mine is definitely spiral
Why spiral?
It just looks like a fairytale
I really can’t choose, I love them all equally.
Earlier that day: "I don't care for Single Run".
I felt like 'spiral', easily when opening the post.
Yet somehow it became much more complicated than I envisioned.
Balustrade and Converging
Semicircular is banging ngl
My old workplace had one. The body count of scraped knees, smashed noses and broken phones was in the dozens. You really want to look down when using those
And here I was expecting everyone else to say semi-circular too. Humble and simple.
Staircases are so cool! My personal favorite thing to photograph in old buildings is doors.
Spiral is my favourite pre-Escher period staircase type.
No love for the semi-circular?
I fear that the spiral has a consistent radius, and is therefore a "helical staircase".
I guess that's why we call helicopters helicopters and not spiracopters. But in many medieval buildings, whose stone walls are normally thicker at the base and get thinner toward the top, the stairwell cavity would get wider as it went up, making the stairs a spiral.
That sounds pretty convincing to me. I vote spiral.
Quarter turn is the type used on cs_italy, right?
This makes me feel something I've never felt before. Damn. Thank you.
Converging feels like it's gonna throw you down. Arcade has little peekaboos, feels cozy.
Go big or go home.
Spiral... without the handrails.
Spiral, no contest
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