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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8184702" data-attributes="member: 93670">[USER=82524]@Vaalingrade[/USER] I even spelled <a href="https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Waukeen" target="_blank">Waukeen</a> right.Animals repeatedly traveling the same route create a path.  If these villages are as far out & difficult to reach either there is a few halflings that spends most of their life bringing one pack animal*  like a mule with420 pounds of produce to trade for up to 420 pounds** of something else back & forth.  Of course even though a mule could somehow carry 420pounds that's not really a reasonable volume to attach to a mule due to simple physics.  Alternately bob could load up every mule in the village &  carry it all at once... of course then you need to somehow feed that army of mules trampling a path through the forest[spoiler="lets look at yields per acre"][ATTACH=full]131981[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]131980[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]131982[/ATTACH][/spoiler]Even if you assume no magic is involved to improve yields & cut those dramatically to reflect less advanced farming techniques you still reach a level that makes the idea of not using some form of cart or wagon simply unbelievable.  You are attaching an extreme  level of paranoid secrecy & deliberate obscurement.    That is on par with WW2 refugees in hiding from the nazi's level of caution & is just not reflected in the halfling culture described in order to defend plot armor used to keep other groups in the world from acting logically. * oooh maybe they load up a couple mice to avoid creating a trail? ** mounts & other animals on Phb157 is conveniently adjacent to trade goods where the first item is 1 pound of wheat...</blockquote>

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