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<blockquote data-quote="Jürgen Hubert" data-source="post: 3364882" data-attributes="member: 7177">Slaves do most of the extraction of metal. As for wood, villagers can do that on their own if they have a forest nearby.Leather can be made from local resources, if you know how. Those villages who don't have access to someone who does will have to do with rather filthy hides...And as for wool, that's what you have sheep for. In old times, plenty of people spun their wool themselves. My parents still have an old spinner's wheel in their house (now supporting their stereo), and in fact, spinning wool was a common activity in the families of peasants when they couldn't work outside of the house.Gnomes are still allowed to travel and trade. And no doubt there are some independent human traders as well, who are either good at hiding or good at bribing officials - or both.Yes, the trade infrastructure has broken down to a large degree. Yes, that is indeed fairly nasty for the population, even on top of the general oppression by the minions of the Shadow.But it is possible for individual villages to be self-sufficient for the most part - after all, they have done that in the history of real world earth, too. After the fall of the Roman Empire, there were few trade networks throughout Central Europe, either - but obviously people still survived.You are trying to compare Midnight to the Renaissance and later eras, but a more accurate comparison would be the early Dark Ages.That already has happened. Most of civilization is gone, except in the South.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jürgen Hubert, post: 3364882, member: 7177"] Slaves do most of the extraction of metal. As for wood, villagers can do that on their own if they have a forest nearby. Leather [i]can[/i] be made from local resources, if you know how. Those villages who don't have access to someone who does will have to do with rather filthy hides... And as for wool, that's what you have sheep for. In old times, plenty of people spun their wool themselves. My parents still have an old spinner's wheel in their house (now supporting their stereo), and in fact, spinning wool was a common activity in the families of peasants when they couldn't work outside of the house. Gnomes are still allowed to travel and trade. And no doubt there are some independent human traders as well, who are either good at hiding or good at bribing officials - or both. Yes, the trade infrastructure has broken down to a large degree. Yes, that is indeed fairly nasty for the population, even on top of the general oppression by the minions of the Shadow. But it [i]is[/i] possible for individual villages to be self-sufficient for the most part - after all, they have done that in the history of real world earth, too. After the fall of the Roman Empire, there were few trade networks throughout Central Europe, either - but obviously people still survived. You are trying to compare Midnight to the Renaissance and later eras, but a more accurate comparison would be the early Dark Ages. That already [i]has[/i] happened. Most of civilization is gone, except in the South. [/QUOTE]

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