At 04:36 PM 1/31/2004 +0100, irdeggman wrote:



> Unfortunately it never will since the unnotable scions will never be

> mentioned in any source document that can be used as a reference.

>

> That is to say there is no basis to determine the `proper` demographics

> and IMO there is none.



Let me try it this way... if one were going to make an estimate what kind

of distribution do you think there might be? Are there twice as many

tainted scions as minor, twice as many minor as major, etc? Is the

distribution top heavy in that there are more great bloodlines than would

be possible for a standard, curved demographic spread. I`m just curious

what people`s impressions are here.



Or, optionally, if one were going to make up a chart to determine the

bloodline strength of a random NPC scion using numbers that reflected the

actual distribution throughout the population of Cerilia what numbers would

you put in? Assume for the moment that one isn`t constrained by d100 if

one thinks great bloodlines should be 1 in 1,000 or something like that.



Personally, I always like using the halving method when doing such a

distribution because it`s so simple and easily conceptualized. That is,

half the scions in Cerilia are tainted, half the remainder are minor, on up

through all the strengths, but in this case I`m not so sure that works

since it comes out to something like:



Tainted 50%

Minor 25%

Major 15% (rounded up)

Great 7%

True 3%



In some old number crunching using the population levels in the published

materials the population of Cerilia came out to be somewhere in the

neighborhood of 6 or 7 million. (The population probably should be more in

the neighborhood of 15-20 million, but we needn`t worry about that at the

moment.) If one in a thousand Cerilians are scions that would make for

7,000 (rounded up) scions and a couple hundred true bloodlines, and around

500 great bloodlines, so halving alone doesn`t work very well--unless one

sees a lot more beefy bloodlines running around than I normally do.



Gary