| Apupunchau |
I’ve been slowly but surely building up a small town in an exercise on world building. Fashioning each piece of a small farming village called Nestletop and exploring some historical aspect of what the place or people would be like. We’ve talked, about smithing, trade, communal gathering, horses, and this week we look at the 2nd of the founding families and their venture as the leaders of herdsmen and shepherds.
What period of farming and herding do you use, the early medieval model with serfs raising a lord’s livestock? Do you have free peasants who control their own herds or flocks? Who tends to the animals’ veterinary needs? What kind of animals can thrive where your community is situated?
| Bjørn Røyrvik |
F*!& sheep.
F!&!f!%#f##*f*~%f*#$f*&+ them.
Now that that's out of my system, it really depends on the country the PCs are in at the time. Sometimes serfs, sometimes free peasants, sometimes basically American frontier folks, sometimes old Norse greatfarmers with subsidiaries, sometimes almost modern attitudes. It really depends.
As for who takes care, it can be the farmers themselves (usually). If they are lucky they have someone with a little magic to help them, like a local cleric or a friendly druids (a la Master Oakhollow in Deed of Paksenarrion).
Again, the type of animals depends on the climate and culture in the area. It's impossible to get more specific without listing every single little pissant farming community that our PCs have visited.