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Message: <blockquote data-quote="magnusmalkus" data-source="post: 5503506" data-attributes="member: 34915">I cannot find the book where I had read a bit of instruction on how to resolve how many leveled npc's of a particular class were present in a community and what levels those npc's might be.The instructions were meant for a DM who was building a hamlet/town/city/etc  from the ground up.  The problem I am having is that I'm not entirely confident in my ability to recall these instructions accurately and I cannot recall or find the resource I gleaned it from.If I recall correctly, the instructions were to determine how many of the highest level PC class were present in the community.  From that number, there would be double as many at half the level, rounding down.  So, if a city had two 8th level clerics, there would be four 4th level cleric underneath them and eight 2nd level cleric underneath THEM and then sixteen 1st level clerics at the very bottom.There may have been more to the formula and my recollection of the passage is fuzzy at best.  DOES ANY OF THIS SOUND FAMILIAR TO ANYONE?  Do you remember where you read it?I'm fairly confident I got this instruction from a book I owned... it DEFINITELY sounds like a DM's resource.  Among my library, I thought it might be among one of these books:World Builders Guidebook (from the old TSR days for 2nd edition)DMG 1 DMG 2Ultimate NPC's from Mongoose PublishingCity Works from the Legends and Lairs series by Fantasy Flight GamesI've been thru these books multiple times now but still cannot find the passage.Not much else in my collection would have this kind of minutae instruction on such a niched topic.  I do not own City Scapes (or whatever it's titled) by WoTC, nor do I think I've ever laid a hand on that particular resource, so i'm sure that book is out of the question.At the very least, does anyone have a particular method for populating a (from scratch) city with leveled NPC's?Many thanks in advance,Magnus Malkus</blockquote>

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