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<blockquote data-quote="John H Reiher" data-source="post: 7725134" data-attributes="member: 6903052">The first thing to consider in a high fantasy setting is whether or not there is practical teleportation or not. If you can set up a gate that let's you port from the lands of Nihoshina to the Empire of Tristen then there is no caravans. I tend to make such things rare and limited to what a person can carry on themselves. Making them hard to build, just means it takes longer to build a 'port network. I rather have the items be things like &quot;waystones&quot; that can only be found in fairly off the beaten tracks areas and can't be moved without breaking the enchantment. And of course the waystone links to another in another useless location that's still in country. Then there's how much of the surrounding country side you'd need to be under cultivation. At best, you'd get 1 person's worth of food from 0.5 hectares. At worst, 1.5 hectares. So for a population of 200,000 you'd need at least 100,000 hectares under cultivation and at most 300,000 hectares. Basically 1,000 to 3,000 square kilometers being farmed. When you leave a big city, the party will have to travel through 15 to 25 kilometers of farmland.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John H Reiher, post: 7725134, member: 6903052"] The first thing to consider in a high fantasy setting is whether or not there is practical teleportation or not. If you can set up a gate that let's you port from the lands of Nihoshina to the Empire of Tristen then there is no caravans. I tend to make such things rare and limited to what a person can carry on themselves. Making them hard to build, just means it takes longer to build a 'port network. I rather have the items be things like "waystones" that can only be found in fairly off the beaten tracks areas and can't be moved without breaking the enchantment. And of course the waystone links to another in another useless location that's still in country. Then there's how much of the surrounding country side you'd need to be under cultivation. At best, you'd get 1 person's worth of food from 0.5 hectares. At worst, 1.5 hectares. So for a population of 200,000 you'd need at least 100,000 hectares under cultivation and at most 300,000 hectares. Basically 1,000 to 3,000 square kilometers being farmed. When you leave a big city, the party will have to travel through 15 to 25 kilometers of farmland. [/QUOTE]

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