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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8184571" data-attributes="member: 93670"><p>No I'm really not. If haflings pay the local lord or engage in trade of things like crops, there needs to be roads for that payment/trade. A scout like a ranger who can follow deer tracks can sure as heck follow said road. If you look back at what italy did in the new world, they found other tribes to conquer less by chance than the one they were robbing saying "oh <em>gold</em>! yes we don't have any more but this other tribe we know of does here's a map" It's trivial to follow a road from the place you just left or the place you robbed blind before to the other place it goes.</p><p></p><p>If the place is so out of the way & perfectly bountiful with no dangers to settlements it will be taken away once they engage in trade. Someone will figure out where they came from to go trade with them again if nothing else & from there they are a point on the map that conveniently develops a well worn path or even a road. Living in such an incredibly perfect place is what happened to all the people in the new world unlucky enough to be living in such a perfect out of the way place filled with rich animal mineral & land resources.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 8184571, member: 93670"] No I'm really not. If haflings pay the local lord or engage in trade of things like crops, there needs to be roads for that payment/trade. A scout like a ranger who can follow deer tracks can sure as heck follow said road. If you look back at what italy did in the new world, they found other tribes to conquer less by chance than the one they were robbing saying "oh [I]gold[/I]! yes we don't have any more but this other tribe we know of does here's a map" It's trivial to follow a road from the place you just left or the place you robbed blind before to the other place it goes. If the place is so out of the way & perfectly bountiful with no dangers to settlements it will be taken away once they engage in trade. Someone will figure out where they came from to go trade with them again if nothing else & from there they are a point on the map that conveniently develops a well worn path or even a road. Living in such an incredibly perfect place is what happened to all the people in the new world unlucky enough to be living in such a perfect out of the way place filled with rich animal mineral & land resources. [/QUOTE]
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