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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 6658863" data-attributes="member: 57383">Enough what?Anyhow, we need to plug in some levels and titles. The goatlings appear to use a Slavic language, going by the few names in Goatmen of Kavaja. There are a number of sample NPCs in the pdf, including "Žarbo Bogdra'anić, Župan of the Kosovsko Dominion".Now a Župan is the leader of a "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BDupan" target="_blank">Župa</a>",  which means something like "country" according to Wikipedia, which also says it may be derived from a word for "Shepherd" - which seems appropriate enough for Goatfolk. That seems a bit too high-order for the smaller units we need for the Organisation line.Looking through the list of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Slavic_titles" target="_blank">Slavic Titles</a> I think <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%B3jt" target="_blank">Wójt</a> is about the level we need for the "top boss", and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posadnik" target="_blank">Posadnik</a> is a good title for the intermediary leaders.The problem with that is it leaves us without a title for the lowest level leaders of the "gangs". I'm trying to find an ancient Slavic word that's roughly equivalent in rank to a "sergeant" but not explicitly military - something like a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_%28class%29" target="_blank">Franklin</a> was in medieval England. I thought about using "sershant", but that's literally a transcription of "sergeant".Heck, I might as well use "<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/r%C3%B3g" target="_blank">róg</a>", which means "horn" in many Slavic languages. That's usually what you find at the head of a goat. <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    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />That'd produce something like this:Organization #1: Solitary, gang (4-8 plus 1 róg of 2nd-4th level), band (20-50 plus 10% noncombatants plus 1 2nd-4th level róg per 10 adults and 1 posadnik of 5th-8th level), or tribe (30-300 plus 50% noncombatants plus 1 2nd-4th level róg per 10 adults, 1-13 posadniks of 5th-8th level and 1 wójt of 5th to 12th level)I also wondered about using "<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dzwon" target="_blank">dzwon</a>" or "bell" for the minor title, since shepherds sometimes put goatbells on their lead animal (or those that tend to stray) so they can keep track of them.Alternatively, we could use dzwon instead of posadnik for the intermediary title:Organization #2: Solitary, gang (4-8 plus 1 dzwon of 2nd-4th  level), band (20-50 plus 10% noncombatants plus 1 2nd-4th level dzwon per  10 adults and 1 posadnik of 5th-8th level), or tribe (30-300 plus 50%  noncombatants plus 1 2nd-4th level dzwon per 10 adults, 1-13 posadniks of  5th-8th level and 1 wójt of 5th to 12th level)Organization #3: Solitary, gang (4-8 plus 1 róg of 2nd-4th level), band (20-50 plus 10% noncombatants plus 1 2nd-4th level róg per 10 adults and 1 dzwon of 5th-8th level), or tribe (30-300 plus 50% noncombatants plus 1 2nd-4th level róg per 10 adults, 1-13 dzwony of 5th-8th level and 1 wójt of 5th to 12th level)Hmm, of the three I'm currently leaning towards #3, followed by #1.Seems we're agreed on that at least!</blockquote>

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