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<blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 8178648" data-attributes="member: 8461"><p>Recently I was rereading the <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/149132/Dungeon-Masters-Guide-35?affiliate_id=820" target="_blank"><em>3.5 Dungeon Master's Guide</em></a> and took note of the listings for various settlements by population (p. 137):</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Thorp:</strong> 20-80 people.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Hamlet:</strong> 81-400 people.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Village:</strong> 401-900 people.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Small town:</strong> 901-2,000 people.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Large town:</strong> 2,001-5,000 people.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Small city:</strong> 5,001-12,000 people.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Large city:</strong> 12,001-25,000 people.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Metropolis:</strong> 25,001+ people.</li> </ul><p>What bothered me about this was that I knew that I'd seen a listing for a larger population center somewhere. After some checking around online, I was finally able to zero in on where. The <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/23683/Epic-Level-Handbook-3e?affiliate_id=820" target="_blank"><em>Epic Level Handbook</em></a> revised the population tables (from the 3.0 DMG; the revisions weren't kept in the 3.5 book, which is part of the reason I had such a hard time finding it initially), and in so doing added the following:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Planar metropolis:</strong> 100,000+ people.</li> </ul><p>Now, it's fairly intuitive that these population distributions are meant to reflect a pseudo-medieval world, where urban centers aren't nearly the size that they are today. Even so, I found it quite amusing to consider that a town with a hundred thousand people or more is so large that it constitutes being <em>known across the multiverse</em> for its size. </p><p></p><p>"Across the planes of existence, there are places where untold masses live, converging in groups so large as to boggle the imagination. Places with names such as Sigil, Dis, the City of Brass, and...Akron, Ohio."</p><p></p><p>So that got me wondering: how large are the largest population centers in your campaign world? Are they places with a few tens of thousands of people, like in the DMG? Or do you have them approaching more contemporary standards? How big are your world's "big cities"?</p><p></p><p><em>Please note my use of affiliate links in this post.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alzrius, post: 8178648, member: 8461"] Recently I was rereading the [url=https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/149132/Dungeon-Masters-Guide-35?affiliate_id=820][i]3.5 Dungeon Master's Guide[/i][/url] and took note of the listings for various settlements by population (p. 137): [LIST] [*][b]Thorp:[/b] 20-80 people. [*][b]Hamlet:[/b] 81-400 people. [*][b]Village:[/b] 401-900 people. [*][b]Small town:[/b] 901-2,000 people. [*][b]Large town:[/b] 2,001-5,000 people. [*][b]Small city:[/b] 5,001-12,000 people. [*][b]Large city:[/b] 12,001-25,000 people. [*][b]Metropolis:[/b] 25,001+ people. [/LIST] What bothered me about this was that I knew that I'd seen a listing for a larger population center somewhere. After some checking around online, I was finally able to zero in on where. The [url=https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/23683/Epic-Level-Handbook-3e?affiliate_id=820][i]Epic Level Handbook[/i][/url] revised the population tables (from the 3.0 DMG; the revisions weren't kept in the 3.5 book, which is part of the reason I had such a hard time finding it initially), and in so doing added the following: [LIST] [*][b]Planar metropolis:[/b] 100,000+ people. [/LIST] Now, it's fairly intuitive that these population distributions are meant to reflect a pseudo-medieval world, where urban centers aren't nearly the size that they are today. Even so, I found it quite amusing to consider that a town with a hundred thousand people or more is so large that it constitutes being [i]known across the multiverse[/i] for its size. "Across the planes of existence, there are places where untold masses live, converging in groups so large as to boggle the imagination. Places with names such as Sigil, Dis, the City of Brass, and...Akron, Ohio." So that got me wondering: how large are the largest population centers in your campaign world? Are they places with a few tens of thousands of people, like in the DMG? Or do you have them approaching more contemporary standards? How big are your world's "big cities"? [i]Please note my use of affiliate links in this post.[/i] [/QUOTE]
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