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  1. #1
    Bearcat
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    Slash and Burn

    >I meant it as more of a generic comparison of the way population
    >pressures/colonization works rather than a specific example regarding
    ecosystems or
    >slash and burn farming.

    Gary, you've inspired me. Hows this for getting the elves whipped up
    into a frenzy. Hey Phil, how about this for a disaster?

    Slash and Burn Farming

    Type:Domain, Realm

    Success:5+/10+/15+ Cost:4 RP

    Normally the clearing of forest into farmland takes many years,
    sometimes even generations. However, some rulers may see it neccessary to
    clear land quickly so that new farms may be opened up. These rulers resort
    to the slash and burn technique of farming.
    When farmers use this technique to farm they slash the bark off of
    the trees in a selected area and allow them to die and dry out. After this
    they return and set fire to the dead trees and so clear the land.
    Using this technique it is possible to convert a forest province
    into a plain in up to four domain turns. At that rate the blazes are well
    controlled and the inhabitants of the province are not put at risk. However,
    it is possible for the blazes to become uncontrolled, which is very deadly.
    The effective control exercised upon the blaze depends upon the number
    rolled in the action check.
    If the roll is that of 15 or more than the blaze is under perfect
    control. One fourth of the province's forest have been cleared at negligible
    loss of life.
    If the roll is of 10 or more, but less that 15 then there is some
    loss of control. Half of the province is cleared, but at great cost of life.
    The level of the province is reduced by one third.
    If the roll is of 5 or more but less than 10 then the entire
    province is cleared, both of trees and of people. The province becomes an
    uninhabited wasteland. Not only that, if it is summer or autumn then all
    neighboring provinces must make a similar roll, even if they are not
    forests, which cannot be modified by regency or gold. If any of these
    provinces suffers the same result then the fire could spread even further.
    Any devastated land can be considered a desert until the next
    spring, when it becomes a plain.




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  2. #2
    Bearcat
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    Slash and Burn

    >Get Ghore, Roesone, Medeore, Ilien?, Diemed, and Endier to agree for a
    >little while.
    >
    >Post major guards around the spiderfell, Burn it!

    You wouldn't be able to use the action I put out here for that. I
    ask you, would you be able to infiltrate the spiderfell with a small army of
    farmers and get them to slash the bark off of the trees without getting
    attacked by spiders? I don't think so.

    Unless there is a province with no law holdings and no natural
    defenses (such as hordes of tiny deadly spiders) then I believe that this
    action must be performed only in the lands of the regent inciating it.

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    bloebick@juno.com (Benja
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    Slash and Burn

    On Thu, 14 May 1998 21:55:21 -0300 (GMT-0300) Bearcat
    writes:
    > Gary, you've inspired me. Hows this for getting the elves
    >whipped up
    >into a frenzy. Hey Phil, how about this for a disaster?
    >
    >Slash and Burn Farming
    >
    >Type:Domain, Realm
    >
    >Success:5+/10+/15+ Cost:4 RP
    >

    *ack*

    Elves unite!!! Slay all the evil humans, or die trying, to prevent this
    disaster from befalling us all!!!!

    ;)

    Benjamin

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  4. #4
    Pieter A de Jong
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    Slash and Burn

    At 10:29 PM 5/14/98 -0400, Benjamin wrote:
    >
    >On Thu, 14 May 1998 21:55:21 -0300 (GMT-0300) Bearcat
    > writes:
    >> Gary, you've inspired me. Hows this for getting the elves
    >>whipped up
    >>into a frenzy. Hey Phil, how about this for a disaster?
    >>
    >>Slash and Burn Farming
    >>
    >>Type:Domain, Realm
    >>
    >>Success:5+/10+/15+ Cost:4 RP
    >>
    >
    >*ack*
    >
    >Elves unite!!! Slay all the evil humans, or die trying, to prevent this
    >disaster from befalling us all!!!!
    >
    >;)
    >
    >Benjamin
    >
    Fight fire with fire, be just as evil. All elven restrictions on the school
    of Necromancy have been lifted! DEATH PLAGUE MMM! SWEET! How do you like me
    now you human bastards!

    Pieter A de Jong
    Graduate Mechanical Engineering Student
    University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada

  5. #5
    The Olesen`s
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    Slash and Burn

    Get Ghore, Roesone, Medeore, Ilien?, Diemed, and Endier to agree for a
    little while.

    Post major guards around the spiderfell, Burn it!

  6. #6
    darkstar
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    Slash and Burn

    The Olesen's wrote:
    >
    > Get Ghore, Roesone, Medeore, Ilien?, Diemed, and Endier to agree for a
    > little while.
    >
    > Post major guards around the spiderfell, Burn it!

    Someone tried to do that in my campaign one time. The Spiderfell refused
    to burn. Fires could be started but they went out before spreading. Sort
    of gives it a dark and forboding air to the Spiderfell (if it didn't
    have one already).

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    Ian Hoskins

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