Which is your favourite?

Balustrade.

Balustrade gang rise up!
Obviously correct choice

Fuck, these are all bangers.

If I rememeber, I'll edit after further deliberation.

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.

I feel like I just leveled up my descriptive abilities for RPG DMing purposes.

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!

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

Arcade for outside, converging for the main entrance hall, and gallery for everywhere else inside

Balustrade and Converging

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, although climbing Ulm 20 years ago scarred my psyche

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

Spiral is my favourite pre-Escher period staircase type.

Spiral!!!

Right!?
- No, spirals go left
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No love for the semi-circular?

Staircases are so cool! My personal favorite thing to photograph in old buildings is doors.

Quarter turn is the type used on cs_italy, right?

Converging feels like it's gonna throw you down. Arcade has little peekaboos, feels cozy.

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.

Go big or go home.

Spiral... without the handrails.

Spiral, no contest

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

Spiral or Newel. They FEEL so Medieval.

Gallery, converging, or balustrade, but you can't make me choose, I can't choose just one.

There's no debate, spiral counter-clockwise is both aesthetically pleasing and offers the best defense against sword-bearing invaders.

Toss up between converging and balustrade.

Mine is definitely spiral

Why spiral?
- It just looks like a fairytale

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)

Obviously quarter turn wins

So understated, so elegant.
So true. Arcade is a close second but it just doesn't have that je ne sais quoi.
The only correct answer, goat.

I really can’t choose, I love them all equally.

I felt like 'spiral', easily when opening the post.
Yet somehow it became much more complicated than I envisioned.
Earlier that day: "I don't care for Single Run".