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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ace" data-source="post: 774020" data-attributes="member: 944">Another Voice on this and Putting it together (Part 1)Ok I thought I would add another voice to this facinating topicAfter digesting both of these threads here is what I came up with First my world assumptionsI don't use the adept class. I just don't see the need for it and anyway taking it out won't hurt demographics much.  Ratio of farmers to folks 3-1. This means that 25% of the people are non food producing. This ratio includes magic spells such as Plant Growth and the non canonical (but likely) crop bless  A person achieves first level at 15A non adventuring person gains 1000 xp per year (per Sean K. Reynolds) this amount is modifed by up to plus 50% in dangerous times and -25% for sheltered folks. ABout 10% of the population has stats suitable for adventuring classes and is likely a member of one of those  those classes. his is 40% of  the non farmer types BTWNon adventurers  are created either with 15-20 point buy (higher point buy for the occasional higher level types or average dice i.e. 3 six sided dice, numbered 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5. People with very feeble stats will probably die young. The occasional INT 6 type might survive but the Con3 person will likely die of a childhood ilness or somethingAdventurers are created with either 4d6/keep best 3 or point buy 25+. Thye tend to have rather high stats. Adventurers gain XP at a higher rate than NPC classes. I would suggest tweaking this amount to suit you campaign. As an example IMC the average mage is 5th-7th and about 26 Years old-- This will very from game to game and JMO should be adjusted for campaign necessity. I would as a default assume 2000xp per yearUSing the demograhics  modern iceland  (from <a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Iceland" target="_blank">here</a>  )  as a basis   our population breakdown look like this 0-14 years: 23%. 15-64 years: 65% This is the age when someone is active65 years and over: 12% I would adjust them to account for social differences to 0-14 years: 30% slightly bigger familes and less infant mortality. Note that some of the kids (age 12-14) may have apprentice levels in one or more classes12-64 years: 65% This is the age when someone is active and isa at65 years and over: 5% The toughness of medievaloid life cuts life expectancyOK now lets do a hypothetical kingdom-- The kingdom of Examplia (population 10,000,000)This means that in Examplia there are 6,500,000 adults age 15-65. Of those 4,875,000 are farmers or in similar trades and live in the countryside.  These guys are probably Commoners level  1-8 averaging 3-5. A scant 10% are unusualy high level or multi classed or whateverTHe total number of PC classed folks is around 200,000 (3% of the total population)as  I figure that the countyside has a decent number of Clerics, most of the Druids, Barbarians and Rangers. The other classes are more city oriented IME  In the cities lives 1625000 folks among those 7/10 of the adveturing population.  Thats means 585,000 folks with adventurer classes live in the various cities. These guys cover the gamut of levels from 1-20 and upYou can plug in SJohn Ross's  formula <a href="http://www.io.com/~sjohn/demog.htm" target="_blank">(from here) </a>   to determine the population of the largest city in the kingdom. This is equal to (P times M), where P is equal to the square root of the country's population, and M is equal to a roll of 2d4+10 (the average roll is 15). Be warned though, to make the formula work with the new demographic you need to triple the M factor. I would just use a base of 45Thus in examplia the largest city is around 160,000  or twice the size of London in 1300--  If you game favors bigger cities or a different composition double or triple the city size. This will approximate 17th century London in scope.WhewOK Once you have the demograhics together you can set down and do the NPC's I highly recomend And Everyone Else from Ambient <a href="http://www.dreadgazebo.com/dnd/everyone.html" target="_blank">http://www.dreadgazebo.com/dnd/everyone.html</a>Most of them you won't need to worry about, after 4,000,000 of your folks live in the country and  are commoners level 1-8 averaging level 3-5. Well the rest comes later <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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