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<blockquote data-quote="Rahkan" data-source="post: 195569" data-attributes="member: 3583">I would say noFirst of all I don't think size has much to do with age. Size has more to do with how large an area is 'served' by your city. Rome was THE center of the Roman empire. Anyone who was anyone, anyone who wanted any say in governance, had to live in Rome and all of those people needed other people to serve them (shine their boots, clean their houses and whatnot). And of course having all those people in one place necessarily entails that there must be a huge area that is devoted to feeding this large non-food-producing populace. That being said I would think your city would be much larger than Rome.&nbsp; The reason is magic. Magical items never go away. Whereas the Roman emperors built grand structures (like the Colosseum and Aquaducts) the emperors of your city would have built huge and powerful magical items. Not only would they build floating palaces but they would create huge portals to the plane of water to provide water for your city and a stone that summons food or whatnot. As more time passed more and more of these big (immovable) magic thingies would be created. This would mean that the population would continue to grow because the main reason for living there (the magical amenities) would never go away. Furthermore it wouldn't matter if the empire that supported your city declined because the people could be fed by magic. Also in most campaigns there was actually more magic in the past than in the present. Thus people might be attracted all the old magical crap (that they can't make anymore) which is still in your city.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rahkan, post: 195569, member: 3583"] [b]I would say no[/b] First of all I don't think size has much to do with age. Size has more to do with how large an area is 'served' by your city. Rome was THE center of the Roman empire. Anyone who was anyone, anyone who wanted any say in governance, had to live in Rome and all of those people needed other people to serve them (shine their boots, clean their houses and whatnot). And of course having all those people in one place necessarily entails that there must be a huge area that is devoted to feeding this large non-food-producing populace. That being said I would think your city would be much larger than Rome. The reason is magic. Magical items never go away. Whereas the Roman emperors built grand structures (like the Colosseum and Aquaducts) the emperors of your city would have built huge and powerful magical items. Not only would they build floating palaces but they would create huge portals to the plane of water to provide water for your city and a stone that summons food or whatnot. As more time passed more and more of these big (immovable) magic thingies would be created. This would mean that the population would continue to grow because the main reason for living there (the magical amenities) would never go away. Furthermore it wouldn't matter if the empire that supported your city declined because the people could be fed by magic. Also in most campaigns there was actually more magic in the past than in the present. Thus people might be attracted all the old magical crap (that they can't make anymore) which is still in your city. [/QUOTE]

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