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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gilladian" data-source="post: 4336765" data-attributes="member: 2093">I think that in a fantasy game it would be okay to gloss over the fact that higher density crop yeild would require either more laborers or magical/mechanical harvesting tools. Maybe there ARE magical harvesting tools; not undead, but magical animated objects that do nothing but harvest a field, thresh the grain, even grind it. Can you imagine a magical mill that takes neither wind nor water to function, and can be transported to the farm where it is needed? No need to haul sacks of valuable grain in to town and back out again; instead the reaper/thresher/mill comes to each farm in turn and leaves with the miller's share on board. That would certainly keep the farmers under the thumb of whoever had control of the magic - because if they failed to accept the magical aid, there'd be no way they could harvest the full crop they could grow. And they'd lose the extra income/protection from starvation that the bonus provided.</blockquote>