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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 1178327" data-attributes="member: 463">That's true.  A mistake people often make is thinking that there is any official way of deriving numbers of higher-levellers from the general population of an area.  Monte's Town Generator is designed simply to find the highest level characters _within a settlement_, so it assumes a heavy concentration of high-levellers (and wealth) in the larger cities, which are intended to be rare.  As a way of working out the total numbers in a country, say, it's pretty useless.  IMO it's prett poor in general (too few low-level NPCs over 1st level, way too many 20th level Commoners), but YMMV.I find that 'half number at +2 levels' while commonly used, gives what to me look like ridiculous results, like a typical regimental commander of 3000 being a 22nd level Epic Fighter.  I use the 1e DMG rule that 1 in 100 of the population are 'PC class', and a half number at each higher level rule, which to me gives intuitively satisfying results, like the commander of 3000 being 12th level, which apparently is actually the case for Mistledale! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>