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That being said, a question I forgot to explicitly ask: * What's the skill base of the colonists? These people are cityfolk, so stipulated. That means that they're not herders, farmers or hunters. In fact, if they're refugees, did the PC party scoop them from the middle/upper class parts of town, or from the po' part of town? If the latter, then there's a much better chance that they have useful skills such as pottery, smithing, fishing, baking and the like, and at least are likely inured to hard physical labor. If what you have, by contrast, are scribes, notaries, jewelers, orators and the idle rich, that's a problem.
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What virtually any suburban or semi-urban low tech person would have is a greater familiarity with animal handling and gardening. They wouldn't necessarily be useful as farmers, but they can at least keep chickens, keep a pig alive until slaughtering time, and grow vegetables on a small scale. If you want historical examples of new colonies at about the right TL, take a look at how any of the cities in North America were founded, and how they fared. Some were colossal failures, some had massive struggles to survive, and a few had their act together from the start and developed without too many problems. |
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08-07-2022, 12:47 PM | #25 |
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Well since it is land owned by another Kingdom being given to this group to settle in, it stands to reason these couple of things: First, the land is likely not that great or otherwise it would already be well settled in. Second, unless it's a particularly large kingdom, there will probably be at least a few native communities within reaching distance that they can trade with and maybe even solicit help from. Look at early New World communities working with Native American populations for example.
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A previous settlement might well have been depopulated by the same war that made this place recently part of the kingdom, and/or one or both sides may have had a large military encampment there, it being a good place to out one for the same reason it's a good place to put a town. A stockade or some surviving community buildings (warehouses, temples, mills, docks, anything of that nature) would be a big leg up.
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So yes I see this folks having a lot of knowledge about gardening and farming or preservation of food. Remember they hadnīt fridges or a supermarket, and most folk couldnīt afford buying all their food in a tavern. Or do you dine daily in a restaurant? But my question would rather be were theyīve gotten the livestock and seeds from? Not to mention supplies and tools until first harvest and a smithy is build? Refuges as they are tend to cramp their ships with people and the last valuables not with such stuff. A gift from the king? |
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