From:	Jani Fikouras <feanor@**********.UNI-BREMEN.DE>
Subject:	Re: Shadow community Size
Date:	Fri, 29 Sep 1995 12:27:42 +0100

> > No the numbers are not fictional, they used the statistics published by
> > FASA. Stuff like 1% of the population is magicaly active and 1% of that
> > are full mages etc. I think it makes great sence and it sure help you
> > understand how the shadow community really works.
>
> Let's see, Seattle has a population of about 3,000,000 people. 1% is
> magically active, makes 30,000. Of these, 10% (not 1%) are full magicians,
> makes 3,000. Erm, yes, it seems the shadow community is a lot smaller than
> we (or at least I) tend to think...
> The trouble here is that in this case any PC would know just about anybody
> else in "the biz," if not by name then at least by face...

Yes and if you weed out children, gramps and others that simply dont wish
to run the shadows because they got better things to do (read wagemages)
the number gets rather small. As I said the NAGEE narrows it down to about
60 full blown runner mages wich is pretty reasonable if you think about
all the conditions a runner magician must fulfill.
And yes that does mean that they all probably know each other at
least by name. As far as I am concerned this makes the whole way
fixers operate more believable.

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