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<blockquote data-quote="DanMcS" data-source="post: 1356637" data-attributes="member: 6530">He said their goal was to grow enough food to survive.&nbsp; With the conditions he set, and subject to the limitation that 5 acres may not be enough, isn't it better to say, &quot;yes, you can accomplish this goal, especially with liberal use of Plant Growth&quot;, than to worry about it?&nbsp; If they're doing it for food, tell them &quot;yes&quot;.Also, given that they are playing D&amp;D, the income derived from selling off the excess left over from subsistence farming a couple of acres is going to be rather less than they probably get on any adventure they could conceivably go on, a drop in the bucket even, and adventures take days or weeks, as opposed to an entire growing season.&nbsp; If they are doing this for income, tell them &quot;no&quot;.It's not like it will be worth his time to calculate the exact yield a field can produce, given climate, crop rotation patterns, a big dose of fudging for magical effects, what the impact of a big lot of adventurers moving into the area will be on local grain prices, how much it costs to ship it all to market, etc, etc, etc, when their goal is to have something to say their characters did during the downtime of the campaign.Besides, I thought &quot;Peasant: the Subsistance&quot; was kind of funny.&nbsp; So nyah.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :P"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="DanMcS, post: 1356637, member: 6530"] He said their goal was to grow enough food to survive. With the conditions he set, and subject to the limitation that 5 acres may not be enough, isn't it better to say, "yes, you can accomplish this goal, especially with liberal use of Plant Growth", than to worry about it? If they're doing it for food, tell them "yes". Also, given that they are playing D&D, the income derived from selling off the excess left over from subsistence farming a couple of acres is going to be rather less than they probably get on any adventure they could conceivably go on, a drop in the bucket even, and adventures take days or weeks, as opposed to an entire growing season. If they are doing this for income, tell them "no". It's not like it will be worth his time to calculate the exact yield a field can produce, given climate, crop rotation patterns, a big dose of fudging for magical effects, what the impact of a big lot of adventurers moving into the area will be on local grain prices, how much it costs to ship it all to market, etc, etc, etc, when their goal is to have something to say their characters did during the downtime of the campaign. Besides, I thought "Peasant: the Subsistance" was kind of funny. So nyah. :P [/QUOTE]

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