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Old 11-03-2009, 11:54 PM   #75
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Default Re: Emerging smokepowder weapons in my fantasy

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Originally Posted by martinl View Post
So you're saying humans in your FR are too sensible to risk the survival of their species for personal advantage?
Not at all.

I'm saying that their species, due to factors such as the frailty of infants and the reduction in birth rate during times of less nourishment, has an inbuilt resistance to explosive overpopulation. Sure, this resistance takes the form of infant mortality and is therefore not popular, but it's still a fact that humans are far less likely to build up the kind of population pressure that orcs routinely do.

While individual mad archmages or divine prophets might play with the future survival of the species, most humans are not able to do enough damage to seriously risk the survival of the species.
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