Populating the Mini Campaign Civilization

Last post on the mini-campaign I nailed down where the ruins, dungeons, and other dangerous places were. Let’s now return to civilization and get to “populating” civilization.

Back in post #3 some of the details of the civilization on the map were loosely laid out, we really aren’t going in too much deeper but a few things should get a little attention. The Castle in hex 9-2 is occupied by The Overlord, the castle in 9-4 is occuipied by the wizard Allazar (a former adventuring buddy of The Overlord), in the city we can find a clerical ally of The Overlord, and somewhere out west a thief buddy/henchman hides from the attention of his former allies.

Most of the villages are going to be okay sized places to be worth visiting but not huge. I’m going to go random again and have these villages populated by 200-800 folk.

Each town is going to need 1 or 2  trades as well to make it stand out.

Populations: (pops, trades, high level NPCs)

2-4: 400, miners and goat-herders, 8^th level dwarf fighter

3-2: 700, bowyers and horse dealers, 4^th level Fighter

4-5: 300, barrels and charcoal, 8^th level thief

5-4: 600, Brewers and Amber miners (there’s amber in the swamps), 6^th level cleric, 5 1^st level clerics, 5^th level MU

7-3: 500, Vineyards(wine) and Waterwheels providing a semi-mechanized lumber-mill, 6^th level Fighter

8-3: 400, Barley and Beer, 2^nd level thief

8-4: 500, Copper Mine and an Astrologer, 4^th level MU (not the astrologer)

9-1: 400, Cow-herders and Turnips, 3^rd level fighter

9-3: 2300 (it’s the big town I set it to half the size of the total of all the other villages), Shipyard, Churches, Taverns, 9^th levek Cleric, 8^th level cleric, 2- 3^rd level and 12- 1^st level clerics

9-4: 600, Redsmith and sheep herders, 3^rd level fighter

10-2: 400, Fishers and an oracle, 6^th level thief (retired pirate)

The Castles

9-2: Castle of the Overlord.  The Overlord 11^th level Fighter, 6h level fighter, 4^th level MU, 5^th level cleric, 10- 2^nd  level fighters (all fight as knights), 30- 1^st level fighters (half have crossbows), 100 peasant levy (a draft to keep young dangerous guys in check). The overlord and his knights ride griffons (there are 2 griffons for each knight living here). 144,000 gp worth of loot.

9-4: Allazar’s Keep, 10^th level MU. 3^rd level MU. 12 1^st level fighters (half archers), 20 Hobgoblins, 2 Ogres, and a small red dragon. Allazar has a Roc as his mount. 96,000 gp worth of loot

7-5: The Dark spire, a 6/6 fighter/MU, 30 dark elves, 50 kobolds and other possible monsters. 45,000 gp worth of loot.

5-5: Chateau De’Verde, a 3^rd level fighter rules here as hereditary ruler he resent the overlord but lacks power to deal with him.  6 3^rd level Fighters (knights), 30 0-level archers. 36,000 gp in loot.

1-3:  Morden’s hill fort. A remote outpost ruled by a dangerous 9^th levelfighter, 5- 3^rd level knights, 12- 2^nd level fighters, 20- 1^st level fighters. The master of the fort has a tamed red-dragon that serves as his mount. 68,000 gp in loot.

1-5: Elf Hall, here dwell 100 Elves and their Lady. 20 Pegasus riders among the elves. 40,000 gp in loot.

The castles hold over 400,000 gp in loot. They are  a prime target for thieves and those seeking power. From castle dwellers alone with exp awarded at 100 exp per hd and 1 exp per gp we are looking at a setting with about a half million exp up for grabs and we haven’t gotten to the dungeons yet.