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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 9581649" data-attributes="member: 59082">Been thinking about humanoids lately for some reason (how could that be?!) and was wondering: What are the general demographics of humanoid species in your campaign world? If you don't have a homebrew, feel free to speculate on a published setting or the hypothetical "archetypal D&D world" as it is implied in the core rules. Meaning, what is your world's total humanoid population and what percentage of that are each humanoid species, or at least he major ones?I know, this is a big ask - and assumes that either you have the data or could even speculate. But... while I know most don't get this granular in their world building - at least not for a whole world/planet, but also knowing the joys of world-building, I wouldn't be surprised if some have (for the world of my fiction stories, I do actually have population charts of every region and major city, but there are only a handful of races, so it is easier to do the demographics than D&D). And yes, I realize that there are something like a hundred humanoid species...but probably only about a third of those are regularly used in D&D campaigns. At the least, you could use this thread to speculate a bit!For the sake of context, here is our world's population at different historical peroids (according to Qwen):10,000 BC (pre/early Agricultural Revolution): 1-10 million3,000 BC (beginnings of history/Bronze Age): 14-40 million1 AD (Roman Empire):  150-300 million1000 AD (Early Medieval): 250-350 million1500 AD (Renaissance): 450-500 million1800 AD (Industrial Revolution): 900m - 1 billion2025 AD (now): 8+ billionPresumably most D&D worlds would be closest to 1000 AD or 1500 AD, so in the 250-500 million range. But some could be closer to other periods of time. For instance, a "points of light" style world (or apocalyptic) might be closer to 3000 BC or even 10,000 BC, so tens of millions. Or a more developed, "early Modern" style world could be a billion or so. I would imagine the Forgotten Realms being somewhere in the half a billion range, maybe more. Greyhawk probably closer to half that. Eberron is more industrial, but is smaller I believe, so would be less.But then the harder question...whatever your number is, what percentage are human, elf, dwarf, orc, halfling, etc? Are there "greater" and "lesser" species, in terms of relative portion of the population?If the whole world is too daunting or unknown, what about regional? For context, here's Europe at the same dates, also thanks to Qwen:10,000 BC: 100-500,0003,000 BC: 1-3 million1 AD: 30-40 million1000 AD: 30-40 million1500 AD: 60-80 million1800 AD: 180-200 million2025 AD: 750 million</blockquote>

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