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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Endur" data-source="post: 1552891" data-attributes="member: 3346">What is the current population of Menzoberranzan?  I'm vague on the answer for this, but I can tell you that Menzo should have survived the War of the Spider Queen (including Groomph).  The actual answer is in book six of the War of the Spider Queen (which will be published this fall? next spring?).Example:  One of the 2E source books (don't remember which) stated that only 1% of the worlds population had levels in a PC class and that there were about half as many Lvl N pc's as Lvl N-1 pc's.i.e:1 in 100 people is lvl 1.  1 in 1600 people is lvl 5.1 in 1/2 Million people is lvl 10.1 in 1/2 Billion peopl is lvl 20.The sources are conflicted on levels for NPCs.  The 1e DMG sort of followed this, but not quite.  It said to assume that 1 in 100 people might be interested in becoming an adventuring cohort.  However, my recollection is that that didn't include people with PC levels who weren't interested in adventuring.Also, how do you handle bugbears, giants, etc. who have hit dice instead of levels?  Its obviously up to the new GM, but I think you have to assume that the real level progression does not follow geometric progression.  I think the 3.5e formula works well, with Menzo and other Underdark cities having special modifiers because of their epic nature.  A gm could make a reasonable assumption that in a city like Menzo, the goblinoid slaves have the NPC classes and that all Drow have PC classes.The Forgotten Realms is so full of epic level wizards that they didn't even bother to describe epic level fighters in the ELH.</blockquote>

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