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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vymair" data-source="post: 4141558" data-attributes="member: 116">The big key here is food.   Every local municipality will require a food source.   I think any city or township that relied on food from distant source will be a ghost town for the players to find and wonder about.... Iron is important for building weapons, but not necessary that you have a supply nearby.  My default idea right now is that the calamities that led to the breakdown of the last empire claimed many many lives and there's probably an excess of weapons floating around in the short-term.     Additionally, POL doesn't preclude well-guarded merchants from taking risks to go to areas where critical resources could be found.   This is pretty much what happened when the Roman empire fell apart in the west.   Some merchants were willing to take their chances on those dangerous roads in hopes of wealth.  The same should be true in the POL setting.  Those merchants won't be great sources of information since they will hoard that knowledge as a competitive advantage.</blockquote>