Re: Magic to aid farming in space

>  > > Third, if you are incapable of discussing with reference to game
>>  > mechanics, stop discussing a game issue
>>
>>  Youre kiddin right?
>
>No.
>
>>  crunching.  Im merely suggesting that there need to be tweaks to
>>  preconceptions,
>>  not a sweeping change of the rules.  I love the idea of a fishing
>>  economy.  That
>>  adds realism to play (not to mention some good DM descriptive
>>  paragraphs).
>
>I have no problem with a fishing, etc. economy.  But if we have
>official numbers from some source to say this much land produces this
>much and humans eat this much in the game world we should use them when
>possible over the peudo-real numbers of earth's history as it has
>arrived distorted to us today.  In short, the campaign world's
>productivity/needs may be vastly different than "reality" and when
>discussing the campiang world we should use those numbers (if we have
>them).  For one, it finally gives us a common basis for our questions
>and answers and lets us know where we need to get creative.  This
>discussion has already shown any other assumption is just that,
>assumption, and will not generate concensus or even a good final answer.

All true... but you could have said 'Let's just use the official
numbers, because they give us a common ground to work from.' in the
first place.

Sounds nicer:)
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