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<blockquote data-quote="ùìéè äîáåê" data-source="post: 89218" data-attributes="member: 1212"><p>In my never-ending quests to create a consistent world, I constructed the following and would very much appreciate any comments on it. Notice my intention is not to provide a true ecologically-sound world, that's way out of my league - and not very interesting, to me. My goal here is to create a system that will allow me to rationalize how come there are X monsters of type Y in that place - I mean, they have to eat, right?</p><p></p><p>I have done so by assuming each creature requires to eat food with a total weight of a creature two size categories smaller than him per day (I dervied this from the Size comparison picture in the PHB <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> ). </p><p>I derived the following population densities, based on the assumption of 1 sq. mile producing enough food to support 180 Medium-sized herbivores.</p><p>The densities are given per sq. mile.</p><p></p><p>Density:_________Herbivores________Carnivores</p><p>Size </p><p>Fine____________37773 1/4_________who cares?</p><p>Dimunitive________7554 2/3_________who cares</p><p>Tiny_____________1259 1/9_________126 </p><p>Small____________251 5/6__________25 1/5</p><p>Medium__________18 8/9___________4 1/5</p><p>Large____________1 1/5____________5/6</p><p>Huge____________5/953____________1/16</p><p>Gargantuan_______0_______________3/746</p><p>Collosal__________0_______________1.74876E-05</p><p></p><p>Does this seem reasonable? Useful? Pathetic? Useless? A mad undertaking only a fool would undertake, that risks undermining all that is good and proper?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ùìéè äîáåê, post: 89218, member: 1212"] In my never-ending quests to create a consistent world, I constructed the following and would very much appreciate any comments on it. Notice my intention is not to provide a true ecologically-sound world, that's way out of my league - and not very interesting, to me. My goal here is to create a system that will allow me to rationalize how come there are X monsters of type Y in that place - I mean, they have to eat, right? I have done so by assuming each creature requires to eat food with a total weight of a creature two size categories smaller than him per day (I dervied this from the Size comparison picture in the PHB :-) ). I derived the following population densities, based on the assumption of 1 sq. mile producing enough food to support 180 Medium-sized herbivores. The densities are given per sq. mile. Density:_________Herbivores________Carnivores Size Fine____________37773 1/4_________who cares? Dimunitive________7554 2/3_________who cares Tiny_____________1259 1/9_________126 Small____________251 5/6__________25 1/5 Medium__________18 8/9___________4 1/5 Large____________1 1/5____________5/6 Huge____________5/953____________1/16 Gargantuan_______0_______________3/746 Collosal__________0_______________1.74876E-05 Does this seem reasonable? Useful? Pathetic? Useless? A mad undertaking only a fool would undertake, that risks undermining all that is good and proper? [/QUOTE]
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