Often building up a strong military not only leaves
your food situation marginal and your diplomatic
situation rough, it tends to result in less than
jubilant farmers. Besides all the useful blessings
and shrines, I find "Ernalda feeds the Clan" to be one
of those heroquests that I would happily perform every
third year if I could. For starters, completing any
heroquest tends to be good for the clan mood. Then,
for three years after you perform it you get a rather
substantial increase in crop yield, which lets you
give some very substantial presents of food, and hold
some major feasts--great diplomatically and the feasts
are good for the clan mood too. Third, the benefits
available are great--reconcile the farmers if things
are getting too ugly, permanently improve your crop
yields, or simply bring back a treasure. I really
find quest has major benefits for clan management.
Oh, and let me put another good word in for
earthblood. The worse things are with your neighbors,
the more this helps. It also combos nicely with
"summons of evil" if you have an enemy that bleeds
*grin* Crops looking poor? Trollkin make great
fertilizer!
--Bryan
- "KYER, JEFFREY" <jeff.kyer_at_...> wrote:
>
> >
> > Jeff on agriculture:
> >
> > >This partakes of personal preference. But I find
> that Bless
> > >Crops/Preserve helps muchly. I will also keep
> either Sun or Rain
> > >running, depending on whether or not I'm using
> Elmal or Orlanth as my
> > >war deity. For some reason a lot of people here
> like Fyrdwoman.
> >
> > Fyrdwoman has nothing to do with agriculture.
>
> I forgot to finish my sentence. Fyrdwoman is used a
> lot by people here
> and it harms your agriculture a little.
>
> > If you get raided a lot, Maran Gor's Earthblood
> can be handy.
>
> That's the one I couldn't remember.
>
> > And you don't need to have either/or with Sun and
> Rain.
>
> He was looking for a good strong suite, Dave. Heck,
> I use all three of
> the common ones and build up lots of food -- it
> beats giving goods and
> cows as gifts.
>
> Jeff
>
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