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<blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 6545070" data-attributes="member: 92511">There's really no &quot;worldwide norm&quot; to apply here...in my world. It depends on where you are.You could visit a town of 500 people that has an abbey or monastery with a half dozen (mostly low level) clerics, a village &quot;wisewoman/apothecary&quot; who has a couple levels as a wizard, a would-be thief looking to make his move to the &quot;big time&quot;, and 2 guys with Fighter levels serving as the Mayor and Constable. You could go to a [large] town of 5,000 and have fewer classed individuals than that.A large trade-hub port city [10k +]with people coming and going from all points on a globe, and requiring the goods and services to do so, not to mention need for mercenaries to accompany delivers hither and yon, the city guard, a couple of feuding thieves guilds, half a dozen temples and a wizarding academy (not to mention the few private master/apprentice mages not affiliated with the academy who are around), throw in an order or two of paladin knights, a ranger's guild/lodge that operates primarily outside the city but is administrated from within,...and just retired, for-hire, and powerful heroes... you might end up with 1 in every 100 people has some amount of levels. So, pretty much anywhere from 1 in 100 to 1 in 1,000. It just depends. There's really no set formula that applies to everywhere.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="steeldragons, post: 6545070, member: 92511"] There's really no "worldwide norm" to apply here...in my world. It depends on where you are. You could visit a town of 500 people that has an abbey or monastery with a half dozen (mostly low level) clerics, a village "wisewoman/apothecary" who has a couple levels as a wizard, a would-be thief looking to make his move to the "big time", and 2 guys with Fighter levels serving as the Mayor and Constable. You could go to a [large] town of 5,000 and have fewer classed individuals than that. A large trade-hub port city [10k +]with people coming and going from all points on a globe, and requiring the goods and services to do so, not to mention need for mercenaries to accompany delivers hither and yon, the city guard, a couple of feuding thieves guilds, half a dozen temples and a wizarding academy (not to mention the few private master/apprentice mages not affiliated with the academy who are around), throw in an order or two of paladin knights, a ranger's guild/lodge that operates primarily outside the city but is administrated from within,...and just retired, for-hire, and powerful heroes... you might end up with 1 in every 100 people has some amount of levels. So, pretty much anywhere from 1 in 100 to 1 in 1,000. It just depends. There's really no set formula that applies to everywhere. [/QUOTE]

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