RE: Re: Barntar

From: Dave Bailey <dave.bailey_at_...>
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 10:32:06 +0100

        [Dave Bailey] David Dunham writes;

> So how old are you?
>

        [Dave Bailey] 32, you'd have to ask my wife about mental age.......
>
> I believe Barntar is better at farming, because he is utterly devoted
> to it. All men farm, but it's not every man's life.
>
>

        [Dave Bailey] I think I've got a good idea where I've gone wrong now. It seems to me to be a matter of clan resources. A given clan will need x warriors to defend the tula, Y farmers to work the land, z cattlemen, w shepherds etc, the sum will be in excess of the clan size so any given individual will need to be a warrior/farmer/cattleman and that specialising puts pressure on the clans stability. By worshipping Orlanth in different aspects rather than specialising the clan gains sufficient numbers and breadth. Does this sound ok?

        I realise that in part the god calls the individual, it's not a matter of the ring deciding "we need a Chalana Arroy devotee, you have been assigned this task, go learn. " Could there be a case (adventure) for a clan being destabilised because too many individuals have been called to a particular God(ess) so they don't, frex, have enough farming knowledge?

        thanks

        Dave.



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