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Message: <blockquote data-quote="eamon" data-source="post: 4010872" data-attributes="member: 51942">The highest level cleric is 1d6 -2 for a hamlet, since a hamlet's community modifier is -2.  That means 1/3 of the hamlets have no clerics (rolls of 1 or 2), and the other 2/3 are evenly distributed between 1, 2, 3, and 4th level clerics.As a highest level cleric, a 3rd level cleric is no less typical than a 2nd or 4th level cleric, using the DMG's distribution.A typical hamlet that has a cleric at all, has a highest level cleric of 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th level.But, don't sweat it.  As long as the distribution you come up with has many more lower level NPC's than higher-level NPC's, you'll be mostly fine.  In a slightly high-powered campaign (in which even random NPC's might be high-level) I generated random NPC's: For a random NPC, I've used a distribution of 6d6 pick lowest 3, subtract 3 as their level (and on a roll of 0 it's a helpless NPC such as a child, maimed victim or a very old & weak NPC).  That doesn't produce a distribution anything like the DMG's, and yet it's still playable.The DMG distribution would never produce a large town with a wizard of 6th and 4th level, for instance - it's too "chunky".  In other words, the distribution is meant to give a roughly representative image of what a community should look like, not actually make any sense - why can't a town have a wizard of 6th and 4th, when it can have a 7th and 3rd level wizard?There's nothing wrong with using the DMG method to make a community, but it's a rough sketch; don't worry about a level here or a level there - the model just isn't accurate enough to make that matter.</blockquote>

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