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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Prince Atom" data-source="post: 288591" data-attributes="member: 6046">Okay, this has been bothering me for about a year now, but I haven't done anything about it because I haven't needed to; I'm posting this now out of boredom and opportunity.I am not very clear on how much an acre of land is <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt="(:" title="Smile    (:"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname="(:" />eek: For shame!  Imagine a Kentucky farm boy not knowing how big an acre is!), or how it fits into the medieval economy of a game like D&D.I know that it didn't take too many of us with modern equipment to work our land -- especially since we rented half or more to a tenant -- but how long did it take people with horses and plows to work it?Arrgghh....  The point is, the DMG mentions awards of land as a possible part of booty, but doesn't give any rules for dealing with such things as good land management and taxation -- or at least none that I can find.How much is an acre of land worth?  How many peasants can work an acre of land without its drying up or their getting in each other's way?  How much income does the land generate for the landowner, and how much does the king tax?Are these questions I'll have to answer on my own?  Not that I'm incapable, but if there's something official from WotC I'll feel a lot more comfortable using that than anything I can come up with sans a research staff.And FYI I don't have any of the books outside of the core books, the Manual of the Planes, and the Psionics Handbook.  If there's an answer in the Stronghold Builder's Guidebook I don't have that available.Sorry if I sound like I'm begging, but why do you think they call me The Whiner Knight? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> TWK</blockquote>

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