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<blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 9581967" data-attributes="member: 1210">Impossible to say.My setting takes place on the inside surface of an enormous air bubble in an (maybe endless?) ocean. The bubble is about a million miles in diameter. Many continents and islands float on the surface. This leaves me a ton of room to flesh out areas as I decide I need or want to. Which means that most of the world is unexplored in game and in my notes, and intentionally so; I have lots of room to expand or create areas to explore different themes.Now, I can speak to the explored core of the campaign area, where most of my games have been set over the years... but that's not an easy one to answer either, due to in game events. Not so long ago- somewhere around two years in game time- there was a massive Chaos apocalypse that came perilously close to wiping out all life. Slaad tadpoles rained from the sky for days, and transformed into full grown slaadi only minutes after hitting the ground. This was worldwide. At the end, when the pcs managed to defeat Ygorl and end the apocalypse, the slaadi transformed into other creatures fairly randomly- so while some became humanoids, others turned into trees, fish, animals, and monsters. The end result is that the population swelled again, but many of the creatures posed threats to one another or couldn't survive in the environments they found themselves in. So at a guess, I'd say the current humanoid population of the core area- a roughly 10,560 x 4,080 mile area- numbers in the high hundreds of millions, split between many different types (including a bunch of old edition types that aren't in official 5e sources and homebrewed creatures). But it's just a guess and isn't firmly established.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="the Jester, post: 9581967, member: 1210"] Impossible to say. My setting takes place on the inside surface of an enormous air bubble in an (maybe endless?) ocean. The bubble is about a million miles in diameter. Many continents and islands float on the surface. This leaves me a ton of room to flesh out areas as I decide I need or want to. Which means that most of the world is unexplored in game and in my notes, and intentionally so; I have lots of room to expand or create areas to explore different themes. Now, I can speak to the explored core of the campaign area, where most of my games have been set over the years... but that's not an easy one to answer either, due to in game events. Not so long ago- somewhere around two years in game time- there was a massive Chaos apocalypse that came perilously close to wiping out all life. Slaad tadpoles rained from the sky for days, and transformed into full grown slaadi only minutes after hitting the ground. This was worldwide. At the end, when the pcs managed to defeat Ygorl and end the apocalypse, the slaadi transformed into other creatures fairly randomly- so while some became humanoids, others turned into trees, fish, animals, and monsters. The end result is that the population swelled again, but many of the creatures posed threats to one another or couldn't survive in the environments they found themselves in. So at a guess, I'd say the current humanoid population of the core area- a roughly 10,560 x 4,080 mile area- numbers in the high hundreds of millions, split between many different types (including a bunch of old edition types that aren't in official 5e sources and homebrewed creatures). But it's just a guess and isn't firmly established. [/QUOTE]

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