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06-20-2003, 06:45 PM #81
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From: "Landsturning" <brnetboard@BIRTHRIGHT.NET>
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 8:17 AM
> Roman Empire (early 4th century)
> Soldiers per 1,000 population: 7
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> Ottoman Empire (late 17th century)
> Soldiers per 1,000 population 7
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> France (late 17th century)
> Soldiers per 1,000 population: 8
All of these societies are much more organized for manpower mobilization
than anything medieval. As such, you could imagine that these figures
reflect the upper limit for Anuire, if you presume the more Roman model that
some favor, rather than the Anglor-French semi-feudal model, which will get
you lower numbers, because more labor is directed toward better armed,
higher level characters.
Kenneth Gauck
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06-22-2003, 11:30 AM #82
At 09:31 PM 6/19/2003 +0200, you wrote:
>Having a bloodine survive for 800 years with noone knowing about it worked
>in Tolkien, where Aragorn`s forbears survived in a wasteland. there is no
>such isolated place for someone with a bloodline strength of 80+ to hide
>in. And I don`t picture Anuire as quite that conservative. Remember that
>Gondor felt no real need for a king. It was only when the opportunity
>arose that the wanted Aragon back. And LoTR is a lot more legend-like to
>me than Birthright.
>
>But I guess it`s a matter of personal taste.
People sometimes want to use the BR bloodline system to represent dynasties
or other heritable "real world" or fantasy systems of royalty. Bloodline
is, however, IMO very much a BR construct, so `porting it into another
system without some pretty serious modification--or trying to relate it
directly to a fantastic literature like JRRT`s work--isn`t going to be very
apt. Similarly, the domain level of BR is very much BR-centric. Though
there are major chunks of it that could be used in any setting it`s
arguable how functional they`d be. I guess they`d be as workable in
another campaign world as any other if one came up with a suitable system
for dealing with RP, but I don`t know how well the describe "reality" or
the absolute control that an author has over the particulars of his
novel. In the same way an endless number of write ups can be composed to
describe Aragorn (or Gandalf, Alice in Wonderland or Jiminy Cricket, for
that matter) I don`t think any one is going to very satisfactory. Even
those occasions when a novel has been composed with D&D in mind
(Salvatore`s work [which I hate] the BR novels [no comment] or Gygax`s
[anemic] fiction) that have D&D characters written up to support them seem
to lose something vital in the translation. The domain level as a
representation for Gondor`s lack of a king would have the same flaccidity.
Having said that, Aragorn didn`t have a bloodline in the BR sense, and the
"bloodline" that Tolkien ascribes to him is the legacy of his being one of
the few remaining Dunedain. He`s a member of a kind of elevated
race--human, but "chosen" or favored, and definitely superior in several
ways. It`s a mythological standard--rulers are often attributed mystical
powers. Those mystical powers, however, come from being chosen by the
gods, not having actual godly powers and deriving energy from the people
and places of their domain in a like manner to the way worship works for
deities. With the exception of the occasional mythological hero that is
directly descended from a god, that is. Even those characters who have a
mythic connection to the gods (most obvious in Greek mythology, but
certainly not limited to that mythos) don`t have a BR bloodline. If one
wanted to portray various mythological or literary characters in a game
BR`s bloodline system would probably not be the best way to go.
Gary
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06-22-2003, 09:05 PM #83
And for the record, I think bloodlines nicely, and flexibly reflect a whole
group of human notions of rulership almost entirely as is.
Kenneth Gauck
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06-23-2003, 01:49 AM #84Originally posted by DanMcSorley
I think you`d do better to look at stats from a country that hasn`t been
industrialized for a 150 years. It`s going to be hard to find a good
parallel in the modern world at all, but a modern western power definitely
isn`t one.
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06-23-2003, 01:57 AM #85Originally posted by Trithemius
Have you considered the demographic tendencies in "modern industrial
democratic societies" towards an "ageing population". If you are keen on
using modern comparisons perhaps examining less developed (and possibly
serially embattled) countries might provide better comparisons to
Anuire? There are plenty of places like this in Africa.John Machin
(trithemius@paradise.net.nz)
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I agree that a medieval/renaissance age the "average" life span was significantly lower. However, this is a fantasy world with preistly magic to cure diseases, etc. in place of modern medicine.
Additionally, I ask why would the designers list the maximum age of humans as 70+2d20 years? Hardly fitting for a typical campaign world...
Ok yes. My foolish stats SUCK! EVERYBODY PLEASE DROP THE FRIGGIN knocks on my stats! I'm just trying to help not get bashed to peices for irrelevant info. Estimates and percentages are our friends.Servant of the Most High,
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06-23-2003, 02:22 AM #86
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From: "Lawgiver" <brnetboard@BIRTHRIGHT.NET>
Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 8:49 PM
> Why then is my figure of 6 per thousand not that far off Landsturning`s
figures?
Its a fluke. You see, corespondence does not always imply causation.
Kenneth Gauck
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06-23-2003, 02:22 AM #87
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On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Lawgiver wrote:
> Why then is my figure of 6 per thousand not that far off Landsturning`s
> figures?
Luck :) You compared France`s modern, industrialized, but at-peace
figures to his late medieval, constantly in-and-out of war figures. If
you`d compared them to, say, France in 1917, you would have had a rather
different result. So you got lucky.
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