Tools of a Ritual Mage

So, here’s some info on what ritual mages use in my setting, both lore and stats. They are defenitely the most tool-heavy of all wizardly types.

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Impact of Constitution Against Disease

Well, based on a few posts on Crossing the Verse, here’s some stuff on how a population could be affected by racial Constitution modifiers, and the resulting Constitution score/bonus’ effect on the saves vs. disease.

Five Years Later (DH2)

Here’s the intermediate post between the TPK in my campaign and the new run. Two non-present characters survived, and one 13 year old heir was sent away before the suicidal waking of the dragon…

Medieval Demographics

Okay, so here’s a bunch of data on demographics.

Population Distribution Over Character Levels

Here’s an interesting thought exercise: what would the distribution of character levels be over an entire population? I think most people can agree that the majority would be low- or unleveled characters. My guess would be that a normal distribution could be applied. My assumptions were the following: the mean level is 0.5, with the same amount of people being level 0 and level 1 (in any class, including non-adventuring classes). Level 0 in this case is defined as a healthy, working individual that simply never excels in an area (the stuff that non-leveled henchemen are made of). “Levels” -1, -2, and -3 represent people in increasing degrees of weakness that are still alive and part of society. The rare -4 level person is a true invalid that is kept alive. Character levels are drawn on a 10-level scale, where level 10 is the top end of hero-level characters.

I further assume the deviation to be 1.3 levels, as having over 70% of the population being either level 0 or 1 seems a bit high. (There’s no fancy mathematical reason, I just chose a nice number). This gives me a table like this:

Level	Of population	At most	At least
-4	0.1%	0.1%	100.0%
-3	0.8%	0.9%	99.9%
-2	4.8%	5.7%	99.1%
-1	15.8%	21.5%	94.3%
0	28.5%	50.0%	78.5%
1	28.5%	78.5%	50.0%
2	15.8%	94.3%	21.5%
3	4.8%	99.1%	5.7%
4	0.8%	99.9%	0.9%
5	0.1%	100.0%	0.1%

The reason the table stops at level five is that the number of people above that was just so minuscule that the table won’t show it with only one decimal. I find this spread wholly acceptable. It looks something like this

The perccentage of level 10 characters becomes an impressive 0.00000000008% of all people, which with a reasonable 15th century world population of half a billion, becomes less than one person. Quite a bit less. Maybe the little finger of a 10th level character. Hah. But with 10th level being defined as “Mythic Hero”, it’s fine that one might come along only every hundred of years.

The total number of characters of levels 6 and above come out to about 20 000 in the entire half billion world. There’s some around, at least.

Obviously you could extend this to a larger array of levels, with some numbers changed, if you had, say 20 levels or whatever. Though you might have to add some more negative levels if you want to keep the world low level, as the curve is technically equally long on both sides of the middle.

 

Bonus: Random Level Table

1d20	Level
1	1d6: 1 is -3, 2-6 is -2
2-4	-1
5-10	0
11-16	1
17-19	2
20	3+, roll 1d6. Each 6 is +1 level and reroll

Some Drawings of People

I felt inspired to draw some of the people my players have encountered in the campaign so far… so I did. These are the ones I ended up finishing.

Jumping on the 20 Questions Bandwagon

Because it seems fun. So let’s do all four of the 20 question sets I found… This will be freaking long…