Town

D&D organizes community size to establish basic guidelines on he relationship between community size and production. This page offers further guidance on this subject. Small and large towns exist to offer to villages and smaller communities good and services which they cannot produce themselves. Towns will feature more specialization and less part time labor than villages. Towns serve as markets for the local area to purchase materials and goods from outside the area, and for locals to sell their produce to merchants who will carry it elsewhere.
Many demographic lists of craftsmen are based on the 1292 Paris tax census, and are appropriate for cities, but not necessarily towns or smaller communities.

The principle feature of a town is its market. The town itself is a consumer of rural goods, and a producer of craft items that are needed in villages at too small a demand to justify the location of the craft in the village. Because craftsmen in towns tend to specialize more, they can become experts in a limited form of production and produce more fine and masterwork goods. Because of greater craft specialization, townsfolk tend to provide much more consumption from one another as well.
A hundred or more villages are required to support a town.
The medieval town is a market town, but the Romans had another kind of town - the administrative center. In BIRTHRIGHT, each province assumes administrative, guild, temple, and military centers, and most of those will be in the largest community. So, given the size of most provinces in Cerilia, It will be pretty common for every province to have one town, and every realm to have one city. Realms with a lot of low level provinces or a lot of high level provinces will tend to have fewer or more towns respectively.

Small towns are villages, frequently near a castle, which were granted market rights and grew as a result. Some portion of the town will often function like a village, with food producers who exit the town to work the surrounding fields. This might constitute as many as the first thousand inhabitants, but it might be much less as well, depending on location and soil fertility. Everyone in town not primarily engaged in food production is engaged in town functions.
Small towns have between 901 and 2000 humanoids. Small towns have a gold piece limit of 800 gp. This means that only items under 800 gp can be readily purchased. Objects are produced above that limit on a commission basis.
The first 900 people in town, or whatever proportion is agricultural will require the following tradesmen:
miller, blacksmith, leatherworker, carpenter, stonemason, bronzesmith, weaver, potter, salter, brewer, and a bone and antler worker. There will also be a bowyer & fletcher, brothel, a butcher, copyist, a glazier, and moneychanger. After that, everyone is calculated as a townsmen according to the following table.

Guild	Profession	Incidence
Bakers	Bakers	350
Bookbinders	Papermakers	250
Butchers	Butchers	800*
Carpenters	Carpenters	250
Carpenters	Furniture Makers	1000
Carpenters	Plasterers	1000
Carpenters	Roofers	1200
Carpenters	Wheelwrights	275
Carpenters	Woodcarvers	1250
Casters	Bronzesmiths	560*
Casters	Bucklers	1120
Casters	Silversmith	700
Chandlers	Chandlers	500
Chandlers	Soapmakers	400
Masons	Bricklayers	175
Masons	Masons	350*
Masons	Potters	250*
Masons	Tilers	400
Clothiers	Haberdashers	620
Clothiers	Launderers	160
Clothiers	Mercers	520
Clothiers	Purse Makers	850
Clothiers	Tailors	200
Weavers	Bleachers	1680
Weavers	Drapers	250
Weavers	Fullers	1200
Weavers	Weavers	200
Bankers	Pawnbrokers	560
Fishmongers	Fishers	1000^
Fishmongers	Fishmongers	800^
Smiths	Blacksmiths	900
Smiths	Cutlers	1200
Furriers	Furriers	160
Hostlers	Grooms	600
Hostlers	Inn Keepers	1300
Hostlers	Tavern Keepers	250
Jewelers	Jewelers/Goldsmith	900
Medical	Barbers	250
Medical	Physicians	600
Medical	Herbalists	1000
Medical	Midwives	600
Merchants	Beer Wholesalers	1000
Merchants	Used Clothiers	125
Merchants	Dairy Sellers	160
Merchants	Flower Sellers	250
Merchants	Grain Merchants	350
Merchants	Grocers	125
Merchants	Livestock Wholesalers	200
Merchants	Spice Merchants	1000
Merchants	Wine Merchants	620
Merchants	Woolsellers	1250
Merchants	Wool Wholesalers	900
Tanners	Cobblers	120
Tanners	Harness Makers	1200
Tanners	Leatherworkers/Tanners	500*
Tanners	Saddlers	800
Watermen	Water Carriers	500

• Trades so indicated have one incidence of the trade already, so calculations are for additional tradesmen.
  

^ Presumes access to fishing waters.

Large towns no longer have any agricultural inhabitants, but may have several villages nearby. Like small towns, their market is their focus, supplying specialized tools to the area and handling the sale of goods in and produce out. Large towns will use the chart for the small town incidence of tradesmen and will use the following as well.
A large town has 2,001 to 5,000 humanoid inhabitants. Large towns have a gold piece limit of 3000 gp. This means that only items under 3000 gp can be readily purchased. Objects are produced above that limit on a commission basis.

Guild	Profession	Incidence
Architects	Architects	4000
Smiths	Armorers	2100
Smiths	Locksmiths	1500
Artists	Artists	1800
Artists	Painters	1500
Artists	Sculptors	2000
Bankers	Bankers	4500
Bankers	Money Changers	2200
Bankers	Tax Collectors	4000
Bookbinders	Bookbinders	2500
Bookbinders	Booksellers	2000
Bowyers	Bowyers & Fletchers	2500
Brewers	Brewers	2200
Brewers	Distillers	2500
Brewers	Vintners	alternate*
Brothelkeepers	Brothels	2000
Carpenters	Coopers	520
Clerks	Copyists	2500
Clerks	Illuminators	3000
Clothiers	Girdlers	2000
Clothiers	Glover	1900
Clothiers	Perfumer	2500
Clothiers	Vestment Maker	4000
Glaziers	Glover	1800
Glaziers	Glover	1500
Masons	Tilers	2500
Weavers	Dyers	5000
Rug Makers	Tilers	1500
Smiths	Armorers	2100
Smiths	Locksmiths	1500

A complete list of medieval occupations would be something like thirty pages long. Many of the entries would be part-time occupations, duplicate names for the same occupation, or similar occupations. For example, a "whittawer" was a leather workers who worked with white leather, often making saddles and harnesses, sometimes even making saddles regardless of the type of leather.