tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4829093857574761981.post8032318343239908818..comments2024-03-26T01:17:49.256+00:00Comments on Roles, Rules, and Rolls: We Built This City On Nickels and DimesRoger G-Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08594440701279968693noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4829093857574761981.post-81195877469602458792011-12-19T01:15:47.952+00:002011-12-19T01:15:47.952+00:00Serves me right for not embiggenning the picture t...Serves me right for not embiggenning the picture to where everything was easy for me to read.The Great Khanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18342783210750664992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4829093857574761981.post-27452646221974375942011-12-18T22:40:04.996+00:002011-12-18T22:40:04.996+00:00Cool. I have been mulling it over and I just can&#...Cool. I have been mulling it over and I just can't come up with anything. Still trying to foster my free-thinking spirit. Look forward to what you are working on, it sounds like what I might need.<br /><br />Thanks,<br />TBThe Banehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07618418974424858748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4829093857574761981.post-29890107414923588642011-12-18T19:22:09.741+00:002011-12-18T19:22:09.741+00:00@William: Actually, I did suggest the foreign coin...@William: Actually, I did suggest the foreign coins thing in the lower left. Obviously it depends on how much traveling you do and things like proximity to another country, but yes, I was thinking about things like Canadian nickels.<br /><br />@ Bane: Thanks and please feel free to develop your own version. I think you may be happier with the next installment, which is a way to detail individual districts, that will also work for towns of population 1000-2000. Stay tuned...Roger G-Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08594440701279968693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4829093857574761981.post-8771760273175895042011-12-18T17:42:15.741+00:002011-12-18T17:42:15.741+00:00Roger, thanks for the 'shout out', it is a...Roger, thanks for the 'shout out', it is appreciated and I sent a link back here from my latest coin based post.<br /><br />I really like what you have done using more of the elements of the coins; ie. year, heads/tails, value, etc. Very cool! I hadn't thought of that. This mental experiment is rather 'outside-the-box' for me. But it is fun.<br /><br />I hope you don't mind, but I want to riff of this as I continue on. As I mentioned, I like what you have done, and what Talysman suggested on my blog, but I need it to suggest how to map the city and how it falls out, with logical results. I am just afraid, using the population scale per settlement that I am going with, it just wouldn't look right at 1:5 mile hex to 2000. I intend to try it though!<br /><br />I also want to go from small to large, rather than large to big, using the physical size of the coin to represent the communal size of the group. So, in your 'One Page Coin Settlements', I would have Laborers (Peasants) be the largest coin, Crafters (Commodity Workers) the next largest, Traders next smallest, and the Rulers the smallest.<br /><br />I am hoping the small to large transition will also scale up through the hex map scales, as well, when I am mapping so as not to break a 5 mile hex border until somewhere around the small to large town range. Time will tell if I can figure this out.<br /><br />I never thought 'thinking-ouside-the-box' would be so hard for me.<br /><br />Again, awesome stuff!<br /><i>TB</i>The Banehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07618418974424858748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4829093857574761981.post-15342727943525199632011-12-18T15:18:31.585+00:002011-12-18T15:18:31.585+00:00This is a really cool way to generate towns. You c...This is a really cool way to generate towns. You could even use foreign coins to represent a foreign quarter or different ethnicity, although that probably wouldn't work for everyone everywhere, I just live near Canada, so we get the occasional Canadian coinage mixed in with our change.The Great Khanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18342783210750664992noreply@blogger.com