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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alkiera" data-source="post: 4210745" data-attributes="member: 41353">1) Midieval cultures tend to be agricultural; these inspire large families, and multi-generation houses.  A farmhouse could have a set of grandparents, a set of parents, and ~4-5 kids, easy.  Add in a farm hand, and that's 10...  put a bunch of those around the city.They suggested 11 buildings were random structures; often business people live in their work buildings; the blacksmith lives not in the forge itself, but in an attached living area; as do his apprentice(s).  Same for the baker, the priest, the general store owner, etc.  If the church is 1 building, that's 10 buildings with ~5-10 occupants, and 6 houses, with 5-10 occupants... Even at max, that's 150 +priest and acolyte(s) in the town proper.  That leaves 800 people to make up... which is quite a few.Then again, in a story I read recently, the master/apprentice ratio was more like 1/20.  Master had 2 senior apprentices, 8 midling apprentices, and ~10 noobs.  Also had a couple other adults helping manage the crowd; a cook, a teacher, etc.  Took in 8 year olds, taught them reading, writing, math, and thier trade(gemcutting), released them 9 years later as journeymen.. the ones who stayed that long.  Only 2 made it out of each yearly n00b class of 10.  Others moved to less prestigious shops.So if some of those random buildings are craft-shops like that... we're still short a bunch.  Eighty out-lying farms seems like a LOT for a village.  Even 40 seems like a lot; and 20 people on a farm seems like it'd be... cozy; and I thought all adventurers came from farms where they were raised by their parents alone, and half the time one of them was already dead, too.</blockquote>

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