Re: Plows; archives; campaign usefulness

From: via RadioMail <David>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 1995 20:39:46 -0800


Nick Brooke quotes on plows:

> [The plough] would have had a ploughshare made
> wholly of wood hardened by fire or at best covered by a thin
> sheath of metal, and would have been incapable of use in stiff
> soils, even when the plough was very heavy, provided with wheels
> and drawn by six or eight oxen.

Thanks, but this still doesn't explain why Gloranthans couldn't use metal plows that are made of bronze, not wood. I remain unconvinced by John Hughes's iron plows, in part for reasons others have covered.

Now that I finally have gopher and ftp access, can someone tell me where the RQ archives are? I vaguely remember the "soda" server was going away.

Charlie Domino said
>To editorialize for my $.02 worth, while I find the discussions on here
>interesting, except for some rare tidbits, they aren't of much practical use
>in a campaign

While I occasionally see complaints like this, they never say what they _do_ want. So what would you find useful in a campaign? Scenario ideas (this is one reason I occasionally post campaign writetups)? NPCs? Towns? GMing tips?


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