birthright-digest V1996 #363

[Bill Seurer]

> Excerpts from mail: 2-Nov-97 birthright-digest V1996 #363
> birthright-digest@lists. (35348)

> Can mages tap the magic of the seas?

Or simpler yet, can mages somehow put ley lines into sea areas? That
would require less effect than developing a source up from 0 to a point
where reasonable realm spells are castable.


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[Bill Seurer]

> Excerpts from mail: 2-Nov-97 birthright-digest V1996 #363
> birthright-digest@lists. (35348)

> > From: Brian Stoner
> >
> >
> > The US government is the single larges employer in the
> country,
> > though. Of course that is mostly because of it's statistical
> > departments... This wouldn't really apply to a medieval
> world...
> >
> > Brian
> But this still doesn't compare w/ the Birthright system. A guild
> 4 in a
> province 4 is basically the _only_ employer, not just the largest,
> again,
> according to the BR rules, which may or may not accurately model
> real life.
> There are probably still small businesses, and there are
> definitely farms
> and that kind of support infrastructure, but there's no way the
> government
> could ever employ on that scale.

One need look no further than the former communist countries where (in
Birthright terms) the government completely controlled the Law and Guild
holdings and was trying to destroy the Temple holdings. The government
employed EVERYONE, and it was very inefficient.

Actually, that's one thing that is missing from BR. As holdings get
larger they tend to be MORE efficient when the inverse should be true.


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