Neither would I, although I think those numbers could be discretely "tweaked" without hurting anyone. But the point was that the numbers from my earlier post need to be assuming they are any use at all.
>Remember, the 'under 15' is very typical of a primitive society. Many
>children won't be reaching 15 due to disease, injury or starvation in
>those bad years....
Well, yes. On the other hand, most (indeed, all) primitive societies do not have the immense range of "child-preserving" magics available to the Heortlings. I realize that this battle recently raged on another list, so I see no reason to bring it up further, though. If the general consensus is 50% adults/50% children, I'll go with it.
Peter Larsen
>> Heck.
>>
>> reading TR again, I notice that the population refers to
>adults, so
>> a stead of 70 has 35 men, 35 women, and 70 children. This seems
>slightly
>> extreme to me (half the population is under 15?), but the numbers in
>my
>> list need to be increased by at least 50% to reflect this, which
>makes the
>> issue of stead governance even more extreme -- the Pat. and Mat. may
>have
>> to deal with 120-150 people!
>>
>> Peter Larsen
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