[Mor's End Discussion] Administration

[Tallow]

Minster of Agriculture

Ok... I have read through tons of these posts today, and in general, I've seen one of the major resources available in Mor's End ignored almost completely.

Cattle...

Now I understand cattle, ranching, and farming is part of the Ministry of Agriculture, but if it is a major business I believe the Cattle Ranchers will have a HUGE say in Government, NPC's, Craft/Trade, etc.

If nobody else has been willing or is willing to take on this position, I'm more than willing to be a Minister of Agriculture.

I will need to, though, coordinate with Minster of Geography with how big and where the ranches will be.

I'm imagining cattle or sheep ranches the size of Tejon ranch in california or the Ponderosa from Bonanza. Several thousand acres each so to speak.

I have a post talking about cattle ranches in the government discussion, and sent Buttercup an email on it as well. I will also be posting to the geography board.

Andy Christian

 

[Buttercup]

Here you go. Thanks to Knightfall:

Coinage: Shield (pp), hammer (gp), sword (ep), dagger (sp), knife (cp).

What's ep? The rest are platinum, gold, silver and copper, but I'm blanking on the "e".

 

[Wippit Guud]

That would be electrum... which officially isn't in 3e... are we still gonna use it? A little 2e nostalgia is nice, but I donno how it works under OGL.

 

[Buttercup]

Re: Minster of Agriculture

I have a post talking about cattle ranches in the government discussion, and sent Buttercup an email on it as well.

Buttercup, with a red face, tiptoes out to read her Yahoo mail, which she doesn't check as often as she should.

 

[Buttercup]

We certainly do need to do something with the cattle ranches. It would be odd if we mentioned cattle as a major resource, and ignored it thereafter. Also, there have already been references to cattle and steaks in several other craft/trade submissions, so we need to make sure we tie up this loose end.

Tallow, if you want to work up something, I think that would be great. You'll want to talk to Grey Dwarf to see where ranches should be placed on the map.

I can see it now, a cattle rancher with a bad attitude walks into a bar....

 

[Conaill]

Reposted from the "Questions and comments" thread:

If you guys still need a Minister of Guilds, I guess I could volunteer. I really shouldn't, but I find myself posting here so frequently that I might as well. If you guys still need a Minister of Guilds, I guess I could volunteer. I really shouldn't, but I find myself posting here so frequently that I might as well.

Here's what I have in mind:

I would start a new thread on "Guilds and organizations" (just to cover things like city guard etc as well). I figure this would fill a niche in between the "Government" and the "crafts" threads.

I would start out posting 10 or so empty posts at the top of the thread to be filled in with individual guilds and organizations. Then, since I like the demographics guidelines from the DMG and "A Magical Medieval Society", I would post the relevant statistics for each group as a framework:

- max class levels for the leaders
- number of people with relevant classes
- number of people with relevant professions

For an example, see my last post on the Government Affairs thread about the size of the city guard/military.

I totally don't mind deviating from those numbers if we have a reasonable justification (e.g. obviously we will have a much larger number of potters and silk merchants than the average city), but they do provide useful ballpark values.

Then we can open up for submission to fill in the details for those guilds and/or to propose new guilds. Entries from the NPC thread could refer to the Guilds in this thread, and the heads of the guilds/organizations would be woven into the Government thread...

That sound reasonable?

Y'all still want me as minister?

Here's what I have in mind:

I would start a new thread on "Guilds and organizations" (just to cover things like city guard etc as well). I figure this would fill a niche in between the "Government" and the "crafts" threads.

I would start out posting 10 or so empty posts at the top of the thread to be filled in with individual guilds and organizations. Then, since I like the demographics guidelines from the DMG and "A Magical Medieval Society", I would post the relevant statistics for each group as a framework:

- max class levels for the leaders
- number of people with relevant classes
- number of people with relevant professions

For an example, see my last post on the Government Affairs thread about the size of the city guard/military.

I totally don't mind deviating from those numbers if we have a reasonable justification (e.g. obviously we will have a much larger number of potters and silk merchants than the average city), but they do provide useful ballpark values.

Then we can open up for submission to fill in the details for those guilds and/or to propose new guilds. Entries from the NPC thread could refer to the Guilds in this thread, and the heads of the guilds/organizations would be woven into the Government thread...

That sound reasonable?

Y'all still want me as minister?

 

[Krug]

Ok Connali. Go for it. But how about Guilds and Organisations?

 

[Conaill]

Ok Connali. Go for it. But how about Guilds and Organisations?

You mean british spelling for Organisations?

<checking Google>

Hah! Organization beats Organisation 28 million to 13 million

Besides, if you manage to put three spelling errors into a 7-letter name, you don't have much right to complain!

Conaill. It's Conaill damnit! Not Connail, Connali, Conal... Conaill!

 

[Wippit Guud]

I sympathize, Conaill.

I've been Whipit, Whippit, Wippet, Wippitt, Whipput... the list is endless

 

[Ruavel]

As promised (for those of you who care), I edited the watersilk jelly Word doc, just in case it's easier for people to use than copying from a message board post...



FYI - after about this time tomorrow, I won't be able to check the boards for about 3 days, as I'm off to Melbourne for the first National Circuit fencing tournament for 2003... If anyone has something else for me to do for the Mor's End project, email me (through the email address in my profile will be fine) and I'll get on to it as soon as I'm back in town...

wish me luck...