Population Density

[S'mon]

Well, for pop number, that's up to you, however I used the numbers based on heros or those of high level as adding zero to the end of it

ex: a first level person is 1 in 10
a second level person is 1 in 100
then 1000, 10000, 100000, 10000000 and so on. (this is for active heros...if you have old heros, or those who dont actively adventure...then their may be afew more.)

For D&D I tend to use a 1/2 or 1/4 progression, not 1/10, but start with only about 1% of the population as PC-class,

For 1/2, half 1st level.

So in kingdom of 1 million:

100,000 PC-class.

50,000 1st.
25,000 2nd.
12,500 3rd
6,250 4th
3,125 5th
1,622 6th
811 7th
405 8th
202 9th
202 10th+

This may be too many high levellers for some settings though.

For 1/4, something like

72,000 1st
18,000 2nd
4,500 3rd
1,250 4th
312 5th
156 6th+

 

[Roman]

For D&D I tend to use a 1/2 or 1/4 progression, not 1/10, but start with only about 10% (corrected from 1% to 10%) of the population as PC-class,

For 1/2, half 1st level.

So in kingdom of 1 million:

100,000 PC-class.

50,000 1st.
25,000 2nd.
12,500 3rd
6,250 4th
3,125 5th
1,622 6th
811 7th
405 8th
202 9th
202 10th+

Yep, I use exactly the same progression. IIRC it came from somewhere in the 2nd Edition AD&D - probably the Hight Level Campaigns book.

 

[S'mon]

Yep, I use exactly the same progression. IIRC it came from somewhere in the 2nd Edition AD&D - probably the Hight Level Campaigns book.

Yeah, but I actually do use 1% not 10%, so those figures were for pop 10 million not 1 million - no wonder I thought they were a bit high!

In a typical county of 100,000, just 1,000 PC class:

500 1st
250 2nd
125 3rd
62 4th
31 5th
16 6th
8 7th
4 8th
2 9th
1 10th