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Message: <blockquote data-quote="genshou" data-source="post: 2955165" data-attributes="member: 13164">Actually, those stastistics can come in very handy.  It's the "default" for determining what is a normal community in a standard D&D setting.  Some of us actually want to know these things, especially me.  I noticed that on EN World people were often complaining about how "high-magic" standard D&D is, and how there are so many high-level NPCs running around with powerful spells, so I endeavored to find out what a true "standard D&D" setting would look like.  Imagine how much easier some of my calculations would be with such a spreadsheet or program!Of course, the random numbers used to determine which type of community any given one is are horribly messed up, and need to be fixed.  Otherwise, you generate a large number of cities with few smaller farming communities to support them.  Since magic is not widely available enough to negate the need for farmers like in the modern day, nor are magical refrigerators going to be possible for every man and his dog to obtain, this is nonsensical.</blockquote>