How much and what kind of traffic do you recall as being on the Sakbe roads?
Was it consistent or did it vary by region and/or season?
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How much and what kind of traffic do you recall as being on the Sakbe roads?
Was it consistent or did it vary by region and/or season?
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Saturday was the TFT group, Sunday was the guy who was sitting right in front of you at last year's Gary Con game, and you can see the trireme at the TRE Games website. It looks like a very nasty customer, even without the oars. (If I saw this thing coming at me, I'd be reaching for that dear old M-10 'Fist of Vimuhla' spell and no fooling around.)Originally Posted by Gronan of Simmerya
Agreed! I find myself with not one, but two groups forming, with a lot of interest in all three of the world-settings I support. I will keep you posted on what happens, of course.
Last edited by chirine ba kal; 10-19-2016 at 05:35 AM. Reason: typo
Lots and lots of traffic, usually getting heavier and heavier the closer one got to a town or city. It's like the US interstates or the UK motorways; out in the rural areas, traffic is usually pretty sparse and long-distance travelers. Lots of bulk haulers, too, near urban areas. It does vary by season and region; farming areas like around Hauma have huge traffic jams at harvest time, and the roads out of the great military bases like Khirgar, Tumissa, and Sokatis see huge military columns in campaign season. Jakalla has lots of traders' caravans going north; if they can't travel by the rivers or by the coastal shipping trade, then there's nothing for it but boot leather to the northwest and northeast. Bey Su, as you might assume, has lots of traffic both ways, with travelers and farm carts pretty well packed in together.
This is where tipping the road guards, who double as 'traffic cops', helps get one from place to place in a timely manner.
Traders prefer not to move a lot of bulk goods, but usually have high-value, low-weight / low-volume cargos in the backpacks of their bearers. Usually, traders will buy bearer slaves for long trips, with the idea of selling them at the end of the trip; this often results in the same slave doing long round trips, but under different owners. Bearers and carts may also be hired for shorter trips from the transport clans, as may ships and boats for water travel. Most people walk, but wealthy people have or hire palanquins so they won't have to.
My leaden alter ego is considered 'charmingly eccentric' because he hired our staff of bearers on long-term contracts; he does not own slaves, due to his part in the crushing of the slave revolt in Ferenara. The 'hired help' is still with him, and a new generation of 'contract bearers' is now starting work - and they all still send a portion of their pay back home to their clan in Meku. (And yes, they are all portrayed as miniatures, too.) The baggage train has a dozen bearers, a cart with driver (and his fiancee) to carry the tents and luggage, and a second cart and driver to carry fodder for the chlen. Additional 'short-term' bearers as needed, too. (Got the whole thing in miniature, I'm pleased to be able to say - including the cook fires and pots on stands, too. Our friends in the UK make the most amazing accessories for miniature figures!)
Does this help? More detail needed?
Show us lead Chirine's caravan enroute and in camp.
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Yes.
1. Are there good drawings anywhere of these tri-level roads?
2. What's the short list of your mini suppliers?
3. Yes pictures of the whole entourage.
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Here's a question out of Left Field...
What are the demons in this Pocket Universe?
Actual supernatural demons or some form of dimensional aliens?
Is there any sense of the Lovecraftian Mythos in Tekumel?
What about any real-world mythologies?
Even the the "cutting edge" storygamers for all their talk of narrative, plot, and drama are fucking obsessed with the god damned rules they use. - Estar
Yes, Sean Connery's thumb does indeed do megadamage. - Spinachcat
Isuldur is a badass because he stopped Sauron with a broken sword, but Iluvatar is the badass because he stopped Sauron with a hobbit. -Malleus Arianorum
"Tangency Edition" D&D would have no classes or races, but 17 genders to choose from. -TristramEvans
Are Sakbe roads the only land way to get around? There are no secondary or smaller roads?
Assuming that Sakbe is not the roads, what about them? What quality? How heavily traveled? Well maintained? If so, by who?
If/when no roads, how easy is it to cut across an area? Farmers shooing you out of their fields for trampling their crops?
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It'll be this weekend, when I have the time to get them all out and set up. There are some photos on my Photobucket page of a 'vacation trip' with the whole household, and this might help.
Yes.
1. Are there good drawings anywhere of these tri-level roads?
2. What's the short list of your mini suppliers?
3. Yes pictures of the whole entourage.
1. You might find some on-line; we did some in the old 'zines, but I don't think you can get those anymore. Have a look, and I'll scan something in. There's photos of the Battle of Anch'ke on my Photobucket page, where we had a smaller Sakbe road.
2. Howard Fielding's The Tekumel Project; David Allen Designs, one of Howard's sculptors; Mike Burns and his Dark Fable Miniatures; David Soderberg and his Bronze Age Miniatures; Alex Bates and his Forge of Ice; Tim at TRE Games; Grand Manner in the UK; Steve Barbour, also in the UK; JR Miniatures; Old Glory Miniatures; Crocodile Games; Brigade Models, in the UK, for the Celtos line.
3. I'll take the photos; see previous post on the topic...
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