Developing this comment from Oktar.

“As for a community, he'll help in a sense of helping to keep it bounded, nicely so as not to have conflict between the community and the natural area. For Thistletop in general, Oktar likes to have a place for people to go, who would otherwise be oppressed and shunned. He'll emphasize that freedom he also emphasizes responsibilities, chores and rules in this community. He'll expect even the youth of the attached community to have some organized service to the whole. Like scouts or chore teams.”

However, I think we could give people a choice of how they serve the community. Some options might be …

• Scouts - Let's steal from Baden-Powell's original setup :) A youth organization (male and female <15) that deals with basic survival skills and trains the members as messengers and runners. That could meet weekly, as do most RL Youth Groups. Assume they leave as L1 Commoner at age 15 with Survival +1 and proficient with sling.
• Militia - once a month, the Militia is mustered for drills and training under one of the more experienced melee fighters. It should probably be Sir Robyn, although Dru or one of the senior guards could share the responsibility. We offer basic drills and simple weapons training. Militia members are expected to provide their own arms and armour, and be ready to help defend Thistletop, if required. At 16 they are Commoner 1 - with a trait :] or as part of the training for Expert (or another class) training for another classThe militia is the equivalent of a light trained mob :}
  Average Stats, Prof(soldier)+1, AC 11, Melee: Simple Weapon +0, dam D6(20). Ranged: Sling +0, d4(20)
  Note - this is a Trait Bonus – so does not attract the +3 class bonus.
  Simple weapons could include: Club, Short Spear, Light Mace, Sickle. AC assumes a mix of Dex, Padded Armour and Leather armour.
• Religious/Philosophical - My neighbour spends a lot of her time cleaning and arranging the flowers in a local church. In Thistletop we will (eventually) have a temple to Sarenrae and a shrine to Desna, which could provide a similar commitment for residents. We are also promoting 'The Green Way' as a philosophy, so planting and regular maintenance of community flower or vegetable patches might work for that.
• Work Groups - local community infrastructure always needs maintaining - paths need some clearance, bramble hedges need trimming, and I am sure we can think of other community infrastructure later.
• Organise/Assist - help with the scouts or militia, organise work groups, form a community council or set up a Sunday School (while these have a religious connotation, they met once a week and helped poor kids learn basic skills. It could be tied in with Green Way philsphies).

Need to talk to Oktar and get his views on about Forest Gardens

Note: Some of the earlier suggestions are based on how I run games, and Artifex might have different ideas about NPCs :)

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