Comment on “Worldbuilding 5e: Village”

Please delete the test comment that might have gone through, I can’t tell.

I could use some help understanding the economic/manufacturing productivity of hamlets and villages in your taxonomy.

In your 2019 thoughts on the assignment of hex benefits (hammers, coins, food for those who don’t know that term), I recall you gave figures for how many people those benefits might represent in the food production, manufacturing, and service industries. This was motivated by your proposal that more benefit symbols would mean higher and higher tiers of specialization and facility available related to those things. I believe the phrasing you used was that 1/2/3/4 symbols would mean the presence of Production/processing/manufacture/administration.

I know that you are still yet to come up with any general solution for translating hex benefits into presence/absence of facilities, but have you made any strides in thinking about population numbers, specifically, as they relate to hex benefits? For instance, have you Been revisiting “15 PD per food unit (not symbol) at the 2 mile hex level; Five manufacturing persons per hammer unit; 100 gold of commerce per coin unit”?

As usual when I try to ask you questions I find it takes me more effort to phrase them on paper than it did when I was talking to myself in the shower… But maybe this is enough to start a conversation.