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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 6493788" data-attributes="member: 59082">I don't really understand the connection between ability scores and level demographics, but it seems to me that you should focus more on average ability score rather than an array. If you take the idea that the average human averages 10 in each ability score, then you'll get a bell curve from 3-18 (I have no idea about how it would actually look statistically, but hope someone can calculate it for us). But my main issue with your calculations is that they are just that...calculations. In an actual campaign world, they could be used as guidelines but probably wouldn't be taken too seriously.Also, demographics get really tricky because it depends upon the region. A frontier/wilderness region would likely have a higher percentage of levelled (N)PCs because of it being a more hostile environment. Also, consider that higher level (N)PCs are higher level for a reason: they survived lower levels. So the die-off rate would be much slower, meaning that higher level (N)PCs would accumulate.I haven't really figured it out yet, but in the campaign I'm setting up, the location is a frontier region roughly 150 x 200 miles, or ~30,000 square miles. Using <a href="http://www.welshpiper.com/medieval-demographics-online/" target="_blank">this calculator</a>, if I enter in "Arid" for population density I come up with a population of 600,000. That seems a bit high to me, so I'll lower it to 500,000. Of course 500,000, I'd posit the following, using 5E's tiers of play:100,000 children (no levels)350,000 commoners ("0-level")~40,000 tier one (1-4)~1,000 tier two (5-10)~100 tier three (11-16)~10 tier four (17-20)Or something like that. So that means about one in ten people have a level of some kind, which is quite high, but makes sense given that it is a frontier and draws adventuring types, and also many of the people living there might have enough training to be considered 1st level.Now in a more civilized region, the percentage of levelled characters would be much lower - maybe 1 in 100 or 1 in 1,000, depending.</blockquote>

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