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Originally Posted by hal
After all, what is a farmer but a food production specialist? Once you free up a population to have more specialists in areas outside of food production, you begin to climb the rungs of technological advancement.
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There's an easier way.
Create Food can transform organic matter into tasty food. It costs 2 FP per casting. It is a Regular spell, which means it can transform a SM 0 item (say a 150-pound mass of weeds tied together) into food. If the average person eats 2 pounds of food a day, then one mage can easily feed himself and 74 other persons every day year round. If he casts it more than once a day, each extra casting feeds another 75 people. With Powerstones and Recover Energy, one mage can feed a truly amazing number of people.
And your typical medieval culture is built around food production. Farming, harvesting, and protection of same - it all revolves around food.
If Create Food doesn't warp the economy and culture, nothing will!
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