On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 18:01 -0600, JL Hatlen Linnell wrote: > Exactly. MOST were peasants and poor. The very small class of landed > gentry would have been able to afford this, as would small numbers within > the rising merchant class in a few cities.
Actually, those who could afford them was a wider group than this - it included a broader range of city dwellers and country land-holders than you think. The mass-produced munition plate and similar equipment was crap, but it was affordable too. So was mass produced steel, and from it you got cheap scythes and plough-shares. The demand for cheap metal tools had a lot to do with the deforestation of Europe in the late middle ages. -- Rupert Boleyn A pessimist is an optimist with a sense of history. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
