I'm still reading through #146. Everything is excellent so far (I've read the Scuttlecove backdrop and a little way through "Serpents of Scuttlecove"), except one little nag: The population of Scuttlecove as presented in the little statblock in the backdrop is ~16,000. That's higher than Sasserine's (~15,000), which (1) doesn't match Scuttlecove's much smaller physical size, and (2) just "feels" wrong.
Was the population set that way to produce the proper gp limit and assets? Or is it really the population the authors wanted?
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I'm still reading through #146. Everything is excellent so far (I've read the Scuttlecove backdrop and a little way through "Serpents of Scuttlecove"), except one little nag: The population of Scuttlecove as presented in the little statblock in the backdrop is ~16,000. That's higher than Sasserine's (~15,000), which (1) doesn't match Scuttlecove's much smaller physical size, and (2) just "feels" wrong.
Was the population set that way to produce the proper gp limit and assets? Or is it really the population the authors wanted?
That's the correct population. The maps certainly don't look like that, but that's just an unfortunate result of us not having as much time to work up the map of Scuttlecove as we did with Sasserine. The Scuttlecove map looks great; don't get me wrong, but it should have had a LOT more buildings on it than it did. Basically, Scuttlecove's incredibly more densely populated than Sasserine, and as a result it can be a relatively similar city population-wise but take up a much smaller footprint than the other.
Average number of folks per building in Sasserine's probably about 5 to 10, while in Scuttlecove it's probably more like 15–20, with a MUCH larger homeless population living in the streets and alleys and whatever dungeons & caves they can scrape out under the ground.
That's the correct population.
Cool, thanks. So far that's been my only gripe/puzzle.
On a side note, my RSS feed reader ate the en-dash in your final sentence, so that it read "in Scuttlecove it's probably more like 1520". Which is a lot of people per building.