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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 7152245" data-attributes="member: 463">Yup, as I said in the other thread, when I compiled the number of Tier II+ NPCs in the most detailed part of my Wilderlands sandbox, having 1% of NPCs Tier 1, and 1/10 per higher Tier, looks dead on.  So in an area of 100,000 NPCs you get 1000 Tier I, 100 Tier II, 10 Tier III and 1 Tier IV.I think the formula works best for adventure-heavy areas such as borderlands, points of light, and large cities - the kind of places PCs gravitate to. I think vast swathes of agricultural territory will have lower concentrations of powerful NPCs - eg a large agricultural kingdom of 25 million resembling medieval France probably should have about an order of magnitude fewer Tiered (CR 1+, or PC-equivalent) NPCs overall, with concentrations in the capital city, major regional cities, and in the borderlands. That would give:25 million people25,000 Tier I (0.1%)2,500 Tier II250 Tier III25 Tier IVI think that works for something like Greyhawk's Great Kingdom, a Roman Empire analogue like Mystara's Thyatis, or Mystara's Alphatian Empire (Alphatia that is noted as having a Grand Council of 1000 Wizards - I'd probably give them 1000 Wiz 11+ in 5e, most would be Tier II in CR power terms).A notably vast and peaceful realm might have another order of magnitude fewer Tiered NPCs, eg if I want to threaten my 100 million population China analogue with barbarian invaders I might give them100 million people10000 Tier I (0.01%)1000 Tier II100 Tier III10 Tier IVOr I might say they still had plenty Tier 1 types, but frequency fell off much faster at higher Tiers.Yet still, in the borderland regions or imperial capital, where the PCs are most likely found, the distribution will still resemble 1%/0.1%/0.01% etc - so I think it's a very handy rule of thumb at ground level.</blockquote>

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