{"id":52970,"date":"2024-12-10T03:01:31","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T16:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/blog\/?p=52970"},"modified":"2025-02-21T16:02:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T05:02:39","slug":"trade-in-fantasy-ch-3-routine-personnel-pt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/blog\/trade-in-fantasy-ch-3-routine-personnel-pt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade In Fantasy Ch. 3: Routine Personnel Pt 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
This entry is part 6 of 20 in the series Trade In Fantasy<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

The 2nd of likely four posts looking at everyday personnel in Trade. In this part, Beasts of Burden, Provisions, Carts, and Wagons.<\/p>\n

\nFor anyone wondering at the cause of the delay, just look at the number of tables that I’ve ended up using in this post – then remember that each of them has to be hand-coded as well as having the data generated and checked.<\/p>\n

Add to that the custom diagrams – six of them, art last count – which can take hours to generate, and it should be clear that I have not been idle!<\/p>\n

I thought about splitting the post, but the logical division point comes relatively early; it would not have been a post up to Campaign Mastery’s normal standards. Furthermore, each time I do that, I have to source a new chapter title graphic – sometimes easy to do, sometimes hard and taking more hours.<\/p>\n

Sometimes, it just takes longer. All you can do is hope that it was worth the wait!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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This composite starts with the ruins background<\/a>, by Dorothe<\/a> (Darkmoon_Art), to which I did a quick-and-dirty extension off to the right. The “dragon” image in the sky midground consists of the wings from an eagle<\/a> (photo uncredited), which I attached to the body of a Seahorse extracted from Hippocampus_coronatus_1.jpg<\/a> by Leo D’lion from Flikr<\/a> via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic<\/a> License. Finally, in the foreground (minus a bush and some indications of ground) is an image of a heavily-laden Hiker<\/a> by Clker-Free-Vector-Images<\/a>, with some 3D toning and shadows added by me. Unless otherwise noted, images were sourced from Pixabay<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Credit where it’s due:<\/h5>\n

The series title graphic combines three images: The Clipper Ship Image<\/a> is by Brigitte Werner<\/a> (ArtTower); Dragon #1<\/a> is by Parker_West<\/a>; and Dragon #2<\/a> is by JL G<\/a>. All three images were sourced from Pixabay<\/a>.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Table Of Contents: In part 1 of Chapter 3: Routine Personnel (last time)<\/h5>\n

3.1 A Choice Of Four Trade Unit Standards (actually, 8)<\/p>\n

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    3.1.0 Principles of Comparative Modes Of Transport
    \n3.1.1 Humans as a beast of burden<\/p>\n