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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 62907" data-attributes="member: 177">Is a town of 720 really big enough to support an orphanage?  Unless a lot of parents have been dying recently, thre won't be too many orphans.  They'd likely get absorbed by relatives, friends,  or the local churches.Likewise - three churches?  That's less than 250 people per church.  And a separate meeting hall?  Most rural communities would use a local church for the purpose.  Remember that if you get the entire population together, and give them one square yard each, they'll easily fit in a 90 foot square.Remember, a town built upon agriculture and logging isnt going to be terribly rich.  Manual labor doesn't pay that well.  They won't have lots of money for buildings or items they don't really use.  Would this community actually call for an armorer, for example?  Wood-chopping axes can be made by a blacksmith.  A small community might well have cooperative buildings - a granary or icehouse, for example.A lumber town will have lots of people who work with wood - there will be a lumberyard, wheelwrights, coopers, cabinet and furniture makers, and the like.  If you're going to ship the wood, it pays to work it first.By and large, this is probably going to be a largish area - lots of space for wagons to pass carrying wood and such.  Workshops would probably be spread out.  Unless there's a reason to put a wall about the town, expect it to be at least half a mile across, if not more.Edit - to answer a couple of questions you asked...A perosn can walk 230 feet in 4 rounds.  A brisk walker can cover a quarter mile in a couple of minutes.The stone wall you mention would probably only be protecting the most important buildings, mostly because the town won't have enough people to really man a wall anyway.</blockquote>

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