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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Irda Ranger" data-source="post: 4246590" data-attributes="member: 1003">The fact that it exports fruit and grain only make the rural/urban population ratios that much worse. You have to assume that Fallcrest is agriculturally supporting even more townspeople in the towns it trades with for finished goods and ironwork.Maybe the article on Rituals will clear this up. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />But somewhat seriously, the sage in Winterhaven is said to have access to a few 1st and 2nd level Rituals, and we must assume that the priests in these Temples do too. A few simple spells like Detect Early Frost, Protection From Blight or Plant Growth would boost agricultural productivity quite a bit.  Maybe the local alchemist knows how to make killer fertilizer using firebeetle dung and a few Dryad tears.  Who knows?  Here's a post I made on the topic a while ago: (<a href="http://www.enworld.org/showpost.php?p=3958623&postcount=9" target="_blank">link</a>)My old post doesn't address the question directly though of how many farmers it takes to feed a given population.  Frankly I don't care too much, as long as the campaign does not appear absurd on its face even to my non-caring players, but the answer to the question of "How many farmers?" also depends on a lot of factors.  D&D farms don't have John Deer tractors, but maybe they have some domesticated Kruthik with a Burrow 4 movement rate that can plow a field in an afternoon.  Of course, "plow" would be the wrong verb then ....</blockquote>

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