Determining population sizes? [Archive] - Wizards Community

Determining population sizes? [Archive] - Wizards Community

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Ironfisted Tyrant
04-13-07, 04:09 PM Does anyone know of any good guidelines for determining regional populations? I'm been trying to figure out how best to set populations for regions, countries, and whatnot in my homebrew campaign, and I want to be sure the numbers I use are believable, rather than something completely off-the-wall.
GoriceXII
04-13-07, 04:20 PM Maybe you could give some parameters for what your campaign area is like? For instance is it largely desert, are there multiple kinds of environment, what? What tech level exists? etc.
Jisho
04-13-07, 05:49 PM check this out: http://www.io.com/~sjohn/demog.htm. Its a pretty in-depth article about medieval demographics designed for fantasy world building, and has links to several calculators at the bottom.
Davith Bothain
04-13-07, 07:00 PM Ho-HA! (http://www.rpglibrary.org/utils/meddemog/)
Araes
04-14-07, 12:21 AM Here's a Kingdom Generator combined with a City Generator (http://araesmojo.googlepages.com/Kingdom_Demographics_Generator.html) I wrote a while back based on the above article and the book "Magical Medieval City Guide" by Expeditious Retreat Press.

It includes things like percentages of magical based creations as well as city layouts and the like.
yellowdingo
04-15-07, 07:33 AM I'd suggest that you find a good book on medieval agriculture and calculate the capacity to support a population on some productivity level...

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
Ironfisted Tyrant 04-13-07, 04:09 PM	Does anyone know of any good guidelines for determining regional populations? I'm been trying to figure out how best to set populations for regions, countries, and whatnot in my homebrew campaign, and I want to be sure the numbers I use are believable, rather than something completely off-the-wall.
GoriceXII 04-13-07, 04:20 PM	Maybe you could give some parameters for what your campaign area is like? For instance is it largely desert, are there multiple kinds of environment, what? What tech level exists? etc.
Jisho 04-13-07, 05:49 PM	check this out: http://www.io.com/~sjohn/demog.htm. Its a pretty in-depth article about medieval demographics designed for fantasy world building, and has links to several calculators at the bottom.
Davith Bothain 04-13-07, 07:00 PM	Ho-HA! (http://www.rpglibrary.org/utils/meddemog/)
Araes 04-14-07, 12:21 AM	Here's a Kingdom Generator combined with a City Generator (http://araesmojo.googlepages.com/Kingdom_Demographics_Generator.html) I wrote a while back based on the above article and the book "Magical Medieval City Guide" by Expeditious Retreat Press. It includes things like percentages of magical based creations as well as city layouts and the like.
yellowdingo 04-15-07, 07:33 AM	I'd suggest that you find a good book on medieval agriculture and calculate the capacity to support a population on some productivity level...