This is an interesting topic. I'm currently running a West Marches-style campaign under 4e rules, with the PCs based out of a small village some distance southeast of Lodz. My non-research-driven numbers for the local population when we started the campaign were:
2 infants
5 children/pre-teens
3 teenagers
10 young adults (military service age)
19 mature adults (above service age)
15 elderly
I've assumed a roughly 1:2 male:female ratio for the adults, slightly more even for the kids and elders.
Since game start, the PCs have added two more young adults, one elder, and two teenagers (with four more teenagers living in the area but not quite brought in from the cold yet). There's also a five-person partisan group from Tomaszow Mazowiecki that's currently staying with the village while two members receive medical care for critical injuries.
- C.
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