Post originally by Sammy Grimes at 2005-06-17 12:29:13
Converted from Phorums BB System

Uh, only 32 of the clans out of the 111 are mentioned as being peasants, land-owners, or agriculturists (not counting the two clans involved in beer and wine production). The primary occupation of each clan is mentioned in the descriptions of each clan on pages 10-13. Did you read that section? And everyone has a job, they are not parasites. It is very Bussan to simply be a parasite. Clans are there to provide for their family members (as I discussed previously). The jobs are listed under each clan, if they are know to do this kind of job, don't you think that everyone in the clan would be doing those jobs?

As for someone forcing their members to die to collect Shamtla. That sounds like a story seed and maybe I'll do something like that when I get a chance to run a story. Somebody is going to notice that a lot of blockheads from specific clan are dying. You could be a member of that clan, you could be someone from outside the clan who has seen his clan-brothers impoverished from killing members of that rival clan. You could be an OAL officier or the local magistrate who is assigned to find out about this.