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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shades of Green" data-source="post: 5609626" data-attributes="member: 3297">As part of my work on the City on the Ice-Choked Sea, I'm trying to figure out the general make-up of the city's population, and, particularly, the rarity of classed and leveled characters in the City.Note that the City is a well-established city with early-industrial technology and an incipient industry; technology should look like something out of the Age of Sail rather the Middle Ages, with Mad Scientists getting into steampunk proper.First, I'll have to decide how big the City is. Of course <a href="http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/blueroom/demog.htm" target="_blank">Medieval Demographics Made Easy</a> is an excellent reference, but I'm aiming towards something more similar to the Age of Sail (circa 1600-1800) rather than the Middle Ages themselves (that article gives examples from the 1400s). What I have in mind is a population of about 100,000, of which about 70,000 are the relatively new urban working-class formed by newly (last century) disenfranchised peasants. Most new workers live in ramshackle slums around the harbor and the industrial districts, outside of the old city walls. The remainder are mostly urban craftsmen and merchants, with a small nobility (about 1,000 people split into 3-5 major families and numerous lesser houses) and a wealthy merchant class (about 2,000 people split into numerous families). There are also about 3,000 clergy and monks of the New Faith.A good source of inspiration for the class and level breakdown of the population is <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/archive-threads/203642-vanilla-essence-1e-demographics-implied-setting.html" target="_blank">this EnWorld thread</a>. However, I feel that with the large amount of mercenaries, guards and thugs attracted by such a fractured, decaying city, there would probably be more Fighters and Specialists in the population than the 1E assumption of %1 classed characters. What I have in mind are about 5% classed characters, of whom 2% are Specialists, 2% Fighters and 1% all the rest of the classes (including level 1 or higher Changelings and Elders - i.e. Elves and Dwarves). So we're talking about circa 2,000 Specialists, 2,000 Fighters and 1,000 other classed characters (200 M-Us, 300 spellcasting Clerics, 400 Changelings and 100 Elders).As for Changelings and Elders, they should be a minority. Changelings are 5% of the total population, Elders are 1%.So the class breakdown I'm thinking about is:Level 0 Normal Men/Women5,000 Warriors (higher end of HP, usually armed with something - thugs, guards, rank-and-file soldiers and so on)84,600 Non-Warrior Normal Humans4,500 Level 0 Changelings900 Level 0 EldersFighters1,000 Level 1 Fighters500 Level 2 Fighters250 Level 3 Fighters125 Level 4 Fighters62 Level 5 Fighters32 Level 6 Fighters16 Level 7 Fighters8 Level 8 Fighters4 Level 9 Fighters2 Level 10 Fighters1 Level 11 FighterSpecialists1,000 Level 1 Specialists500 Level 2 Specialists250 Level 3 Specialists125 Level 4 Specialists62 Level 5 Specialists32 Level 6 Specialists16 Level 7 Specialists8 Level 8 Specialists4 Level 9 Specialists2 Level 10 Specialists1 Level 11 SpecialistClerics150 Level 1 Clerics75 Level 2 Clerics36 Level 3 Clerics20 Level 4 Clerics10 Level 5 Clerics5 level 6 Clerics3 Level 7 Clerics1 Level 8 ClericMagic-Users100 Level 1 Magic-Users50 Level 2 Magic-Users25 Level 3 Magic-Users15 Level 4 Magic-Users6 Level 5 Magic-Users3 Level 6 Magic Users1 Level 7 Magic-UserChangelings ("Elves")200 Level 1 Changelings100 Level 2 Changelings50 Level 3 Changelings25 Level 4 Changelings15 Level 5 Changelings6 Level 6 Changelings3 Level 7 Changelings1 Level 8 ChangelingElders ("Dwarves")50 Level 1 Elders25 Level 2 Elders15 Level 3 Elders6 Level 4 Elders3 Level 5 Elders1 Level 6 ElderHow much would these numbers (in a 100,000-people city) fit a LotFP campaign?Also, assuming an ice-age on one hand and higher-than-usual technology (and mammoths as draft animals) on the other hand, how many 24-mile-wide hexes would be necessary to feed a 100,000-resident city?Input would be welcome.</blockquote>

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