Re: (TFT) Is this a decade of thought? SO SAD!

["Jay Carlisle" <Maou_Tsaou@charter.net>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Tapley"
Subject: Re: (TFT) Is this a decade of thought? SO SAD!


> Jay,
> interesting breakdown! It reminds me of Warcraft, Catan (the
> card game), and some other games as well as TFT; that makes me think
> it's got some good ideas in it (since they appear other places as
> well).

Hi Mark!

That section invoked the "decade of thought" crack as it's from a post about 
ten years old.
As I recall, the list was largely lifted from Age of Empires... although 
Warcraft was involved too I think?


> Just wanted to add a comment about religious structures - if
> they are successful, religious structures (and institutions) can
> become totally dominant in a culture's activities. Both from a good
> point of view (rescue missions to Haiti, or equivalent; storing up of
> grain for famine years; accumulating knowledge of genealogy,
> technology, winemaking, etc. etc.) and from a bad point of view
> (crusades; Aztec sacrifices; the Pyramids; etc. etc.).

I agree.
That's what I'm trying to cover useing socitital traits.
It's kinda like Sim City combined with Farmville.

> Coming across central France in the middle ages, the first
> hint a traveller would have that he was nearing a city would often be
> - the sight of the cathedral spire, dominating the countryside for
> miles around.

Great point. I've expended some brain sweat on issues of visability. I'll 
see if I can pull up the stuff about useing square miles from township 
section range maps to draw "travel scale" hexes and walking from minor 
mountain peak to minor mountain peak around the arch mages 4d house.
Alot of monumental structures have this among their effects.

> Although you are right that there is a very wide range, I
> would be sure to acknowledge how central a temple could become under
> some circumstances. Certainly it could subsume the function of the
> town hall, library, etc.

Another execlent point. Combine that with the various building materials and 
construction styles developed in diffrent locations at various times and I 
figure it's better to give general information on building construction 
rather than to focus on a list.
I think a list of the commonest forms would serve well though, just like 
there are relativly few effecient layouts for the simpler setlement types.

> I also might add several other Originating Skills: New
> Followers, Bard/Master Bard, Literacy, and others.

Yes, although compound buildings throw this off abit.
It's the functions of the building that determine what Tallents can be 
practiced there. 
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