It seems to me, looking at figures for Medieval Europe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_demography
that Hyboria is very overpopulated for it's social and technological level. (e.g. according to The Road of Kings supplement, Aquilonia has a population of 25 million!) It's no wonder people are attempting to colonise the Pictish Lands. When Europe reached those levels, pressure was only relieved by the Black Death, the Hundred Years War, and numerous famines.
I can imagine that in some countries, the people are living at the limit of the available food supply, and it will only take one poor harvest before mass starvation occurs, leading to peasants' revolts and the like (especially since many of the nobles seem to live in decadence at the expense of their subjects).
It could be that the Hyborian world is on the verge of the end times, and a dark age is about to fall. That would be an interesting, if rather bleak, campaign idea!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_demography
that Hyboria is very overpopulated for it's social and technological level. (e.g. according to The Road of Kings supplement, Aquilonia has a population of 25 million!) It's no wonder people are attempting to colonise the Pictish Lands. When Europe reached those levels, pressure was only relieved by the Black Death, the Hundred Years War, and numerous famines.
I can imagine that in some countries, the people are living at the limit of the available food supply, and it will only take one poor harvest before mass starvation occurs, leading to peasants' revolts and the like (especially since many of the nobles seem to live in decadence at the expense of their subjects).
It could be that the Hyborian world is on the verge of the end times, and a dark age is about to fall. That would be an interesting, if rather bleak, campaign idea!