[Rq-rules] [RQIII] Cultures - Nomad vs Barbarian

[Wayne Shaw]

At 12:20 AM 10/23/2007, you wrote:
>Not to start an arument about whether cultures are restrictive or not and
>what RQII did etc but here goes:
>
>In my session I have some people who are IMO Barbarian. However, they do
>tend to migrate from summer to winter homes and then some. So does that
>make them nomads or barbarians? IMO they remain barbarians, kinda like the
>Helvetai whoe were doing a migration when Caesar gave them a seeing to.
>Some of my group however say that if you don't stay put in one area, you
>are nomadic. I see their point in the purest form. Anyway, just wonderwed

I'd say it depends more on whether they have more or less permanent 
dwellings.  If they're essentially just moving from one village to 
another in a more permanent location, they aren't really nomades.