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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 2660257" data-attributes="member: 8835">ANDI came from a town of 300, they had 5 churches in town.  3 main denominations, and 2 less common ones.  The Catholic church took up the length of a city block, and was about a third as wide.  People from outside the city limits would come in (it was a rural area).  Anyway, estimates of only a few churches are REALLY off when compared to real life.  Granted, now I live in the land of mega-stadium churches, so I imagine how people could think that 1 church can hold the entire population of a town.  But even down here, there's a ton of strip-mall churches, small churches, and medium sized churches.It might be fair to generalize (without disparaging any religion or even opening that can of worms), that most populations will have multiple churches, even when devoted to the same deity, simply because of differences in taste.  (the preacher might be favored by one group or another, or there are style reasons).So while it may be technically possible to build 1 church and stick all 2000 people in it on a weekly basis, odds are good that a realistically modeled population (remember, we're vaguely simulating reality here), will have some variance and choose to attend different churches, thus justifying multiple churches in any town.Reasons for having only 1 church:cultstate/city sponsored religiontoo small of a population (based on # of Clerics, per DMG)Reasons for having multiple churchesfavorite pastor (same religion, but we like Preacher Tom better)different godsdifferent variants on the same religionpopulation disparity(east side vs. west side, racism, social class division)Janx</blockquote>

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