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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8313741" data-attributes="member: 6796468">And the meaning of the Tortoise and the Hare is how intensely focused Tortoises are.Diversity is great.So... Let's talk about feudal times. To have 1 person in a town that isn't an active farmer/laborer (a Librarian, for example, or a Knight) takes about 50 dedicated laborers. To educate "The Youth" you'd need around 1 teacher for every, what? 20? 30 students? So assuming 200 kids at different levels of education you'd need 5,000 farmers just to have enough excess to make up the difference on Teachers.Not including Merchants, Politicians, Soldiers, Etc...Of course basically every setting (And Dark Sun in Particular) handwaves that to some degree or another, but going for that kind of a scale you might have to consider something along those lines.It would imply that Elemental Clerics are either Plentiful (Which isn't accurate to the setting) or that they can create a lot of water (Which isn't accurate to the setting). In either case it requires some big changes to have Water Clerics providing water to a whole community.It's meant to be playfully so, yes. Not cruelly. And I apologize if I came across that way.Tyr is modeled after Sumeria. Balic is modeled after Rome. Different communities have different levels, so there's no reason not to go for a full on representative democracy, is all I'm saying.</blockquote>