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Diego Rossi wrote:Yes Caspian, but plant growth don't have a shapeable area of effect. It affect a radius from a centre point.
So Not affecting a road or river that run in the middle of the fields will require you not to affect some field.
I don't see why you would not include the trees. Apples, pears, wood for the hearts or building maintenance are all useful products and all used to cover consumption.
You will want to cover even grassland as it will be used as grazing lands and a better rate of growth for the plants will allow for more animals.Casting the spell "here" because there are only farmalnds in the area of effect but not "there" because half of the area is road, river or built over is the better way to get strife in your territory.
"Farmer Jones get the blessing of the lands and increase yield, he is already the richer guy in the area and he get even richer. We that cultivate the badlands never get it as it would be wasteful to spend the spell on our lands."Great way to reduce your people loyalty and your kingdom stability.
These are the kind of stuff I would throw at my pcs. It's never as cut and dry or as easy as a spell.
My group is attempting the same maneuver with plant growth. This is how i handled it:
Ok, i did the math. According to http://www.deirdremccloskey.com/docs/pdf/Article_50.pdf an open field system farmer needed 20 acres of land to sustain themselves. Since the farm mechanic produces 2BP, and the hex consumes 1BP, i just have to multiply the 20 acres by the population divided by 2 to represent a wife. Then multiply by 2 because it is producing food for the equivalent of another hex. So about 5,000 acres are harvested fields. That is 8% of the hex. Most of those families live in the farming village clustered near a noble farmstead, 8% of 93.5 square miles is 10 square miles. Divide that by 0.8 (the square mile casting area) is 12 castings per farm hex. Which at 4 castings per day is 3 days per hex. Or 2 hex per week, and one week per month managing the kingdom, means that this year you could boon 24 farm hexes assuming 100% efficiency. Only if an edict if declared to build round farms, which pisses off some non economist minded farmers that see good soil on the edges of their land.