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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 5545263" data-attributes="member: 6669384">We ran into this in game recently.The game world is under a curse that amounts to slow death.  A cloud of smoke and ash has covered the sky, and stayed there for a couple of years now.  The PCs are trying to lift the curse.  Think "Nuclear Winter", if you will.As they entered a particular area, they noticed that most farm fields were stunted, while some few looked as if a geometer had taken a compass and drawn a perfect circle in them.  The inside of the circle was rich and green, while the rest looked like the other fields, kind of gray-green or brown.It seems that the nobles who own farmlands can afford to pay the Druids' fees for a Plant Growth spell.  Thus they have good crop yields, and make more come harvest time.  This, in turn, allows them enough profit to pay the Druids' fees next time, and... The PCs were thinking about having their Druid do it for the others, since ultimately everyone needs to eat.  Their Druid wasn't yet high enough level to cast that spell, which is actually a good thing.  They would have been in trouble not only with the local Druid circle, but with the Nobles who paid full price, counting on their crops bringing a premium price to make the investment repay.Ah, the simple joys of supply and demand, and their impact on politics and local economic trends, all wrapped up into a simple knot for PCs to unravel.</blockquote>