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<blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 5385111" data-attributes="member: 59082">The thread in the 4E forum on &quot;The Slow Death of Epic Tier&quot; got me thinking about, for lack of a better or more accurate term, the &quot;demographics of level.&quot; While I'd like to keep this open to players of every edition of D&amp;D, I'm going to use 4E vernacular. In your campaign world, what percentage of player character races&nbsp; (speaking, intelligent, civilized people that are generally accepted in&nbsp; the market of a major city) are leveled? What percentage of PC races are Heroic tier? Paragon tier? Epic tier? What's the ratio of, say, Epic tier characters to Paragon tier, to various levels of Heroic tier?I'm going to try figuring this out for my own campaign world as I write. There are roughly a million inhabitants in the region of my campaign, an area roughly a third the size of the United States. It is very much a &quot;points of light&quot; style setting, meaning it is (obviously) sparsely inhabited, with vast stretches of wilderness, very few settled regions, and a high percentage of adventurers. I'm going to make this up as I write, but I figure:total population of region: 1 millionlower Heroic tier (1-5 level): 50-100,000upper Heroic tier (6-10): 5-10,000lower Paragon tier (11-15): 200-500upper Paragon tier (16-20): 100-200Epic tier (21+): &lt;50That means that about 5-10% of the total population is equivalent to a leveled character; roughly 10% of 1st level characters either survive or advance to 6th level, and less than 1% survive or advance to Paragon tier, and less than 1-in-1,000 make it to Epic tier. How does that sound? Again, I just made those numbers up on the fly (except for the million total population), so am not attached to them if they make little sense.(I vaguely remenber writing a thread like this some years ago, either here or on RPG.Net but I forget the details and don't have a link)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mercurius, post: 5385111, member: 59082"] The thread in the 4E forum on "The Slow Death of Epic Tier" got me thinking about, for lack of a better or more accurate term, the "demographics of level." While I'd like to keep this open to players of every edition of D&D, I'm going to use 4E vernacular. In your campaign world, what percentage of player character races (speaking, intelligent, civilized people that are generally accepted in the market of a major city) are leveled? What percentage of PC races are Heroic tier? Paragon tier? Epic tier? What's the ratio of, say, Epic tier characters to Paragon tier, to various levels of Heroic tier? I'm going to try figuring this out for my own campaign world as I write. There are roughly a million inhabitants in the region of my campaign, an area roughly a third the size of the United States. It is very much a "points of light" style setting, meaning it is (obviously) sparsely inhabited, with vast stretches of wilderness, very few settled regions, and a high percentage of adventurers. I'm going to make this up as I write, but I figure: total population of region: 1 million lower Heroic tier (1-5 level): 50-100,000 upper Heroic tier (6-10): 5-10,000 lower Paragon tier (11-15): 200-500 upper Paragon tier (16-20): 100-200 Epic tier (21+): <50 That means that about 5-10% of the total population is equivalent to a leveled character; roughly 10% of 1st level characters either survive or advance to 6th level, and less than 1% survive or advance to Paragon tier, and less than 1-in-1,000 make it to Epic tier. How does that sound? Again, I just made those numbers up on the fly (except for the million total population), so am not attached to them if they make little sense. (I vaguely remenber writing a thread like this some years ago, either here or on RPG.Net but I forget the details and don't have a link) [/QUOTE]

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