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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mythusmage" data-source="post: 664565" data-attributes="member: 571">"1/5th+2/5th+3/5th" What happens to the surplus?<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Getting serious here...Consider the land. What is the land like? How has it shaped the people who lived there? How has it shaped their way of life, their beliefs? A mountainous land will produce a much different people and community than open woodland or a great swamp.Consider the neighbors. What are they like? How has their land shaped them?A river valley running east/west. To the north is wooded hill, to the south veldt (a mix of grass and brush with some trees) giving out to steppe a few miles further on. The village sits by a river ford, with the crops grown to the east. To the west is pasture, the soil being too chalky for vegetables and grain.The woodland people are nomads hunting deer, small mammals, birds, and lizards. On occasion they come down to the village, sometimes to raid, other times to trade. The veldt is home to more nomads, with pastoralists living in the steppe beyond. The veldt people stay out of everybody's way. The steppe people think they own everything, and that other people are merely caretakers for their stuff.So, what sort of people would the villagers be? What would their village be like? What sort of trade do they engage in with their neighbors? How do they view their neighbors? Answer these questions and you'll go a long way to determining the sort of adventures possible in this location. Dealing with a raid from the hills. Or a visit from those snooty pastoralists. Perhaps rescuing a veldtman's child from some misguided do-gooder (it's a hardscrabble life on the veldt).Keep the land in mind when designing your village, town, and city, it will have an impact.</blockquote>

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