Message no. 1

From:	scotthiller2002@*****.com (Scott Hiller)
Subject:	Determining City Population Size and Area; also: Demographics
Date:	Wed, 15 Sep 2004 00:16:17 -0700 (PDT)

I just picked up a copy of Mr. Johnson's Little Black
Book and what I was able to skim through was great!

One thing more I'd like to know: how does one go about
determining the population size and area? The only
thing I've been able to come up with is to take the
percentage of population and area increase from
present-day Seattle to the fictional Seattle Sprawl,
apply that to whatever city you're working with, then
roll 1d6 to determine if the variable is a positive or
a negative. If the vairable is an increase, then roll
1d100 percentile dice and add the result to the new
city population. If the vairable is a decrease, then
roll 1d100 percentile dice and subtract the result
from the new city population.

What do you guys think? Is there a better way to do
this?

Also, as far as racial demographics, I usually use the
Human/Metahuman percentage mentioned in the front of
the old Sprawl Sites book, then apply the +/- variable
to the Human population. then, I roll 1d100 for each
of the Metahuman races. Seems to work okay, but you
could get a heavy Metahuman sprawl where that doesn't
really make sense, like 82% Ork for Cincinnati. Does
anyone have any ideas on how to do this differently?

Thanks,

Scott

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
http://mail.yahoo.com