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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ferratus" data-source="post: 4245172" data-attributes="member: 55966">I think the town of Fallcrest is having the problems that many towns in the former Roman Empire had after biker gangs (barbarian tribes) took over the government and started ruling their pieces of turf.    Simply put, maintaining monumental infrastructure is something that requires tax dollars, central planning, labour, and skilled technique.   Economies of scale.Without the larger tax base, the slave power, and the ability to move around master masons and builders, the local fiefdoms of the Germanic chieftains simply couldn't build or maintain anything on the level of the Roman Empire.  As trade suffered due to the fragmenting of the economy, there became fewer number of skilled people were trained simply because there wasn't the means to pay for those skills.   People didn't become ignorant, that's why monumental architecture and innovation continued, especially by the church which had many of the advantages of the Roman Empire.  Namely, it had international contacts, a wide ranging source of income that didn't depend solely on the local tax base, central and stable leadership and volunteer labour (as cheap as slave labour, only with a better attitude while working).  The town of Fallcrest on the other hand has a population deficit, and largely doesn't seem to have much of a tax base outside of the city.  It probably has to import food in fact, given that it is unable to completely defend its outlaying farms (which is why the population is largely inside the town).   I would thus imagine that Fallcrest cannot afford to fix the walls, doesn't have the people that know how to fix the walls, and doesn't have the people to man the walls either.So what do people do when they get a sudden orc attack?  They run inside the keep.  That they can defend and maintain.</blockquote>

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