@nitsua60 the league was living from importing food and dictating prices on what would be best described as 'trading outposts' - I work on maps for my exalted game.
@Baskakov_Dmitriy Sure! But if you could easily feed two people from the work of one, the idlers might specialise in things like that, if no other handy supplies are abundant. Which is a way I could imagine towns growing out of fertile land without initial trade routes.
@Trish My only point was that political factors in the League--particularly a coordinated trade policy unique in its world at its time driving down the need for military-defensive expenditures--make the members outlying examples in human history. I.e. I wouldn't necessarily draw many conclusions about how to structure things in my world around those examples unless I'm willing to import the rest of the League's policies.
@Anaphory Making baskets is not worth specializing. Wine making? There were specialists, but you don't need a lot of wine makers. Moreover, guilds had restrictions of how much wine each master could make, and it was very hard to get the title of master. Blacksmiths? Well, it was very hard to become a good one. The demand was always high (the whole history of human kind is full of wars!).
and the trade outpost makes the 4th large city... oh, wait, got a small one more.
oh, actually the league had one of the largest standing militaries at its time, because any boat floating was part of their navy if they would have needed it. And they were constantly in conflct with the royalty and dukes, because they were free cities.
@Trish Right, but unlike most political entities at the time, they actually had a viable alternative to conflict-in-arms: coordinated trade restrictions/sanctions. Anyhoo, this is well off-topic. Cool maps =)
@Anaphory there are major joad junctions in germany where only a 'minderstadt' was placed. Neumünster on the Ochsenweg was a toll station - some 50 km north and south there were junctions in it, and both had only tiny settlements, despite that being the biggest trade route from hamburg northwards.
hm, you mean the tiny branch to the woods? or the 'long road' that follows the coast?
Mmoody river god" is the only explanation I can think of for what that river is doing at the northeast of the map. Unless there's a moody gravity god up there.
@BESW most of Jütland (denmark to hamburg) is pretty flat, the water level is usually no deeper than 10 meters. It is basically covered with either sandy flats (deep water level), wetter areas with a higher water level and rocky parts
I'm really not interested in giving more fuel to the conflict. You got a downvote you disagree with. It happens. If you don't get random weird downvotes, you're probably not being seen. If anything, this just shows why people shouldn't have to leave comments justifying themselves: it invites overblown confrontation about a minor event, drawing in lots of other people and wasting everyone's time.
You asked a few days ago why people think you're "fighty." It's because you demand that people act faster than the system is designed to, you see personal agendas where none exist, and you respond to disagreement by escalating to public trial by crowd rather than going through the proper channels to deal with a problem.
@BESW What are you talking about? I don't want to discuss all this stuff, this will only get seven mad again. I am looking for the name of the tools you mentioned so I can check them out.
If you have a personal problem with me, sure, air whatever you want, but I really would like to know what you were referring to.
And if it turns out I'm wrong, that those tools don't allow the extensive spell searching you think is necessary to prevent nitsua60 from having advocated piracy (which he's addressed multiple times already)? Will you go "oh, well, that's not a resource I can use," or will you use it as new fuel for the vendetta? Because I'm sad to say the last few days haven't given me a lot of confidence in that direction and I don't want to be part of it.
But you'd do well to ask why so many different people are reading your site interactions as more hostile than you intend. There are specific patterns, focuses, and phrasings you could work on.
(eg, if you're interested in how to search for spells efficiently, don't spend the majority of the question on the math of how a particular claim that it's possible must rely on illegal resources.)
(And if you think a moderator is acting inappropriately, don't ask for crowd justice with a meta question: flag it for other site mods to review or bring it to the attention of the community moderators--they're the elected mods' bosses.)
@Mala This is where "ask the question you want answered" comes in. By focusing on Nit's comment about searching the PHB, you gave the impression you wanted a resource for searching the spells in the PHB. Is that not the case?
Searching RPG.SE for terms like "5e digital resources" or "5e spell search" gets me questions like this and this, which link to the SRD and a number of other isolated collections of spells. They also link to dndclassics.com, a search of which revealed purchasable character building programs which claim to contain all the spells in the game.
In the midst of the kerfuffle I also saw a link to an apparently complete fan site compendium which claimed to be adhering to the WotC Fan Site rules.
@Mala Then that wouldn't be the program I saw. It was designed for players, not GMs, to build their characters.
@Mala Your original question also obscured that by spending more than half of its text on analysing an (apparently irrelevant) anecdote about searching the PHB. The skill of writing good questions includes learning how to identify superfluous information which obscures the important stuff.
You can learn from this encounter to improve your future posts.
The sad thing is that a simple main site question that says "What's the quickest way to search through all the extant 5e spells for specific parameters, like damage types?" Then we could just say things like "use 5esrd.com/spellcasting/spellfilter"; without all the drama
The fan site link is probably gone if it was in a comment; personal attacks tend to lead to all-cleansing fires that sweep away the useful and the detrimental. But if it was in chat, a search shouldn't hard to do.
@Mala Nah, it's not tool-rec just because answers would probably recommend tools. The difference is that it hasn't pre-supposed that a tool is the best solution.
I suspect Hasbro was behind the game engine's privatision. And to be fair, the d20 bubble/bust wasn't exactly a fun roller coaster to be on, much less to be responsible for.
@BESW I like minis and maps, but I only play with them very seldomly, actually only pathfinder, which I play on cons and chats only. And in the later case, it is digital maps...
@Mala, you just got off a site suspension for creating a mess in a crusade against a specific user, and you're right back at it in this chat room the next day. I'm suspending you from chat for a week. You can still use the main site right now; that allows you the opportunity to show that you can turn over a new leaf and leave off from the compulsive witch-hunting.
@SevenSidedDie in that new user's defense, I feel like a lot of people probably start reading a question around here and have the "What game is this, how does everyone know what game he's talking about? Oh tabletop dnd...." reaction =)
@nitsua60 Agreed, I expect a lot of people have that reaction. I suspect we provide a lot of bemusement and amusement for the rest of the network via HNQs.
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