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Message: <blockquote data-quote="haakon1" data-source="post: 3699684" data-attributes="member: 25619">Wheat over an overland route, or a sea route?I'd like stuff like this written by someone with a feel for economics and medieval history.  As in, wheat will only be exported by water, otherwise going no more than about 40 miles, if we're being historical.  So river valleys like the Nile, yes.  Northern Canadian prairies without an outlet to the sea?  No, not until railroads came along.Most of the trade stuff I'd like to see would deal not with bulk commodity trading, but with the sort of stuff that ancient and medieval societies actually traded.  I'd like to see stuff like this, from my own campaign:-- Perrenland exports "Perrenland" cheese, famous for its holes, mercenary bands, and high-quality dwarven-designed crossbows.-- Highfolk exports leather, leather armor, boots, and gloves.  It uses cowhides from Perrenland and the Wolf Nomads and deerskins from the Vesve, while making the tannic acid from the oaks of the Vale and the Vesve, and the local halflings are expert leather workers.-- Bissel is famous for exporting blackberry preserves from the eponymous "Bramble"wood Forest.  There are also many builders of small river craft, barrels, and wagons for the trade across the Bramblewood Road, linking Eastern and Western civilizations.  Most peasants, however, subsistance on hearty upland oats and pigs raised in the forest.-- Rel Astra is famous for exporting orange liquor (like Grand Mariner), made by a secret family recipe.  This high-value liquor is used for toasting and in cooking.-- Hardby is the regional center for the spice trade.  While spices from East and West can be found here, Hardby's mages have also created magical self-heating vats, from which sea salt is extracted.  And the Gynarch's plantations grow hemp, which is used for rope making and medical herb that is prohibited in many lands outside the Wild Coast region.Much more interesting, useful, and "real seeming" than "slaves for wheat".</blockquote>

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