On Puget Sound
First Post
Need to know where a character was born, where a teleporter randomly dropped the party, or whatever? The obvious solution of rolling a latitude and longitude ends up with a lot of empty space or ocean. While it is suitable for determining a meteorite strike, it is less useful when you want things to appear where people are, and to be more likely where there are more people.
The USA is conveniently divided into 435 congressional districts of about 600,000 people each. Putting them on a list (go ahead and make Washington DC the 436th if you want) and then using the 1d436 function on a die roller gets you a population-normed random location - that is, you are 18 times more likely to roll one of the 18 CDs in the Los Angeles area than to roll the one representing North Dakota.
Then you can go to this map to figure out what's there.
My villain's secret base will be in..... (1d436 = 42) California - 22.... that's Bakersfield!
The USA is conveniently divided into 435 congressional districts of about 600,000 people each. Putting them on a list (go ahead and make Washington DC the 436th if you want) and then using the 1d436 function on a die roller gets you a population-normed random location - that is, you are 18 times more likely to roll one of the 18 CDs in the Los Angeles area than to roll the one representing North Dakota.
Then you can go to this map to figure out what's there.
My villain's secret base will be in..... (1d436 = 42) California - 22.... that's Bakersfield!
