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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8329151" data-attributes="member: 6796468">So here's a thought: The Tithe is awesome and also absolutely terrible at the same time.Like as a concept it's great. But the actual values, based on the size of the communities of Athas, is -way- too high. Gulg, for example, is presented as having only around 8,000 people in it and they're supposed to deliver 1,000 people to Borys every year for the Tithe.Debating several options and I wanna get people's opinions:A) Reduce the Quota. 1,000 or 100 it's still a terrible thing to consign a bunch of people to be defiler-fodder for Borys.B) Increase the populations. Gulg could be a much larger community with outlying populations as well... but then you're losing some of the "Small" feeling of the setting itself where the low population is indicative of the big problems they're facing.C) 1,000 Hit Dice of people. It's a bit on the gameist side, but having a smaller number of much stronger slaves could explain why Gulg has a big focus on improving yourself and challenging others to be stronger.D) Vary the Tithe based on Community. Ur-Draxa 0, Gulg 150, Tyr 500, Urik 1,000... You get the idea.E) Have -one- Community tithe every year. This way all the other communities have multiple years to recover between Tithings and the Dragon's appearance can seem kinda Random. F) 1,000 slaves total, and each community sends what it can.It's especially on the weird side because Daskinor raised an army to kill Borys if he ever returned to Eldaarich after the first tithing (When he was 100 slaves short and Borys burned part of his city and took 100 Templars to fill the Tithe) and Keltis just kinda disappeared one day and Borys hasn't attacked Kurn since. Arguably that's because Kurn is near Daskinor... and then Kalidnay and Giustenal and Hamanu destroying Yaramuke... Does that mean the remaining communities need to put up another 5,000 total between them to fulfill the quota or does Borys not actually -need- 1k from each community and it was just a nice round number?Like I wanna hit the same feelings with the Tithing, but I also want it to make -sense-, y'know?</blockquote>

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