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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hellcow" data-source="post: 1648640" data-attributes="member: 15800">Hey all!I don't intend to be too concerned about this, I'm afraid. What's done is done. However, for what it's worth, the population of Khorvaire is not supposed to be evenly spread across the land. As people have said, there are monsters here (and while some of the monstrous population has been counted in the population numbers, certainly not all), and the idea of stretches of dangerous and uninhabited forest and moor is part of what I *LIKE* in a fantasy world; if there are farmers everywhere, why haven't *they* dug up those goblin ruins? There's a lot of open space, and people cluster together. You have a mass of people in Sharn. You have farming communities around Sharn. But that's not to say that you have a solid continuous level of population from Sharn to Zilspar, let alone Sharn to Orcbone. By comparison, 14th-century England was a relatively safe island where the most dangerous predators were people. This will be expanded upon when the different nations are dealt with in more detail, because different nations do have differing density; Zilargo and the Mror Holds in particular have tight population centers in a lot of open space. But the big thing is: if it bothers you, quintuple the numbers. Yay for you! On my end, I've never had the party counting each peasant. Perhaps the population should have been higher for maximum realism, but it is what it is -- and that's not the sort of thing I'm going to worry about erratawise, because unless you do get all of the citizens of Breland in one room it shouldn't adversely affect your game. One thing I will say is that I believe that the goblinoid population is most likely higher than has been revealed. The goblinoids dominated the continent before the arrival of humanity, and despite their wars and troubles, there don't seem to be enough of them for that. However, this doesn't concern me, because what's in the book is what is known. A hundred years ago, people didn't realize how many goblinoids were in the region of Darguun; now they do. The goblinoids retreated to the mountains, to Khyber, to the depths of forests, and its possible more will appear, especially if one of the Heirs of Dhakaan consolidates the power of the clans.</blockquote>

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