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<blockquote data-quote="iwatt" data-source="post: 864346" data-attributes="member: 11085">That´s what I thought. Most of the &quot;savage&quot;&nbsp; monstrous races have too many special characteristics to be correctly applied by just shifting the population percentage tables to Monster XX 97%, Humans 2%, etc. My Initial concerns are:1) Effects of Racial Favored Class on NPC Demographic´s.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; - Higher possible levels for Racial Favored Class?&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; - Multiclassing&nbsp; 2) Barred classes.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; - Ogre Wizards? Come on, this is OK for specific DM &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; related characters, but having most generic Ogre hamlets &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; have 3rd Level Wizards seems ridiculous.3) Racial Modification to population sizes.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; -&nbsp; Town Sizes reflect many factors, but mostly they are related&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; to resource availability. Continuing with the Ogre example,&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; one of these suckers easily eat´s 2-3 times as much as a&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; human. Does that mean that a village of Ogres should have &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; a third of the population of a corresponding human village?&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; - Fertility and reproduction cycles. How to estimate how many &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; young ones exist, or how viable a population size is. If you &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; kill 300 orcs, according to normal practice, the buggers are &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; replaced in about 5 years. If you kill 300 dwarves, you´ve &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; just decimated a clan, and it will probably take them 200 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; years to recover, if ever. &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Right now I can´t think of any other important parameters used to afect the demographic´s of a monster town. I know I could probably eyeball many of these doubts, but before I comit myself I´d like to get a brainstorming going.Maybe these ideas will generate some interest in the topic.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="iwatt, post: 864346, member: 11085"] That´s what I thought. Most of the "savage" monstrous races have too many special characteristics to be correctly applied by just shifting the population percentage tables to Monster XX 97%, Humans 2%, etc. My Initial concerns are: 1) Effects of Racial Favored Class on NPC Demographic´s. - Higher possible levels for Racial Favored Class? - Multiclassing 2) Barred classes. - Ogre Wizards? Come on, this is OK for specific DM related characters, but having most generic Ogre hamlets have 3rd Level Wizards seems ridiculous. 3) Racial Modification to population sizes. - Town Sizes reflect many factors, but mostly they are related to resource availability. Continuing with the Ogre example, one of these suckers easily eat´s 2-3 times as much as a human. Does that mean that a village of Ogres should have a third of the population of a corresponding human village? - Fertility and reproduction cycles. How to estimate how many young ones exist, or how viable a population size is. If you kill 300 orcs, according to normal practice, the buggers are replaced in about 5 years. If you kill 300 dwarves, you´ve just decimated a clan, and it will probably take them 200 years to recover, if ever. Right now I can´t think of any other important parameters used to afect the demographic´s of a monster town. I know I could probably eyeball many of these doubts, but before I comit myself I´d like to get a brainstorming going. Maybe these ideas will generate some interest in the topic. [/QUOTE]

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