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Default Re: Lord of fertility

Well, at that rate, soldiers should reduce population growth wherever they were stationed because they were eating the excess food. It's the same issue as with civilization - in the real world, armies are built out of population, not lumber or ore or even gold.

So if we wanted to address inconsistencies like the one you describe, we'd start by redoing the entire unit production and maintanence system, not by reworking the special power of a seldom used God.

That said, the Lord of Plenty could produce X people per month. Since those people would grow exponentially if you had growth (and decay exponentially if you had death), you'd want to take the Growth scale.

OTOH, a lord of plenty who spread death and disease, sparing only those in his holy capital, would be pretty cool, I think. Pilgrims flock to his great city to grovel and beg for mercy from the generous one.

Likewise, the Soul Eater (or the Colour from the Spheres) consumes 500 people per month in whatever province his holiness resides in. He takes a growth scale so that his empire can survive his vile appetites?
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