The Indiegogo crowd funding project, Solar Roadways is ending June 20th at 11:59 pm. At the time of this posting the project has raised almost 2 million. I wanted to spread the news and see what you all thought. Paizo has helped out several third party developers with advertising their projects on site, while this one isn't connected to gaming I still thought it was worthwhile.
After some research I have discovered the weight of cannons during the golden age of piracy. Now with so many sizes of cannons the ratio works out as, the weight of the cannon is 200 times the weight of the iron cannonball to be fired. For example a common cannon size was a 1600 pound cannon that fired 8 pound cannon balls. 24 pound shots were known as ship wreckers, anything larger were normally used in coastal defense. Pathfinder rounded and used 25 pounds as their base cannon shot for a 5000 pound cannon. While a fiends mouth cannon is 30 pounds as base shot with a 6000 pound cannon. Following this ratio increasing the poundage of the shot fired by five increases the damage by 2d6. Now before any one starts saying that's op, every five pounds for a cannonball also increases the cost by 3000 gold. And for a bit of realism each shot needs half the weight of the cannonball in gunpowder to fire properly. All because of the fabricate spell I had to do this. Blasted wizards.
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In golarion, I think only Absolom is bigger with a higher density. Most other towns and city's in the golarion setting you could fit on the island. Keep in mind this island already held a town of Cyclopes for a very long time and was able to feed at least a hundred of these guys. So you could have a town of over 2000 people and still be in good shape with modern farming techniques. Or in golarion, have a Druid or two help with your farming, having domestic herd animals will help and don't need the space people do but that does mean farmland for grazing, or animal feed. And fishing is a staple food supply in many places. So the island is plenty big enough to settle with a good population of people, you just can't look at population standards in a modern era. And if it still isn't big enough for you, magic is the solution. There is a lot of dirt that can be moved from a 500 foot tall Mesa that is several square miles in area.
Don't have the time or people to do it yourself? Animate object, and let them work it out. Best thing about golarion is that you have options to solve problems.
A furnace specially made to take advantage of the dragons elemental nature and breath weapon, to craft weapons and armor for adventurers so the dragon can scry on them.
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