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Message: <blockquote data-quote="J. Alexander" data-source="post: 3053656" data-attributes="member: 28453">Questions for the DMScott,Been thinking etc and have come up with some questions about the world etc...What is the normal size of a ships company?  Most eastindiamen which were the largest type of trading vesseles in the napelonic era had a normal crew of around 75 men.........warships of course would have a crew normaly bewteen 225 to 300 depending on the size.What is the typical size of a pirate crew?What are the typical size of standing armies etc?    I have been reading a lot of scottish and 10 thru 15 century history and for those eras...5000 to 8000 men were considered to be a typical army size. For large battles, invasions etc, which often took a year or more to plan and execute, 20,000 men was considered to be a huge army..LIkewise a noble who could raise and field anywhere from 1000 to 1500 men was considered to be a major noble with most nobles only being able to raise 100 to 500 men.....What is the economey like? What are the staple trade goods, ie those while not turning a huge profit consisently need to be shipped about the empire etc....providing a steady stream of revenue?What is the laws regarding slavery in the empire?What is the most common type of coinage? How are large sums of money usually shipped in the empire?What is the common diet like? Is it full of fish..or heavy on grains etc with little meat and poultry?And the last question i have is something that i have picked up on but not really put into context until you mentioned what a true treasure i had found in the ship etc.....Based upon wood prices etc...and the amount of wood that consists of the retribution.....i have roughly calucuated her value to be (using page 25 of A magical medevial society - western europe) which values lumber at 400gp per acre.... If that is the reference then it took roughly 200 acres of oak forrest to build a typical frigate  and 700 acres to build a East Indiamen merchant ship....that would place a base value of some 80,000 gp. Given the scaricty of wood etc in the campaign if you used a multiper of 2.5 then you come up with a value of 200,000 gp with an east indiaman being worth some 700,000 gp. This does not include the cost of making the ship etc....Perhaps I am wrong but the impression i have from your sdescription of the ship leads me to belive she is made almost entirely of wood thus necessitating her having such a stockpile of lumber on board when she was captured. Am i any where close to the value you envisoined etc? And no i am not gonna sell it i am just needing a better understanding so i can plot and plan</blockquote>

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