Mutants & Masterminds Mutants & Masterminds: Struggles of Iannin - City Creation

Ouroboros · April 3, 2011

Settlement Size

1: Tiny Village/Hamlet (population <150)
2: Village (population 150-500)
3-4: Small Town (population 500-1500)
5-6: Medium Town (population 1500-5000)
7-9: Large Town (population 5000-12,000)
10-12: Small City (population 12,000-20,000)
13-15: Medium City (population 20,000-35,000)
16-18: Large City (population 35,000-60,000)
19: Metropolis (population 60,000-100,000)
20: Mega-City (population greater than 100,000)

Surrounding Regions (optional)

City Defenses

1-3: Undefended - no walls or defensive positions, no militia or army to speak of
4-6: Lightly Defended - wood Palisades, a small fighting force
7-9: Moderately Defended - wood Palisades with towers, a small fighting force and a local police/law force
10-12: Fairly Defended - stone walls, a properly sized militia/army and a local police/law force
13-16: Adequately Defended - stone wall with towers, a large army & militia, a sizable police/law force
17-18: Heavily Defended - massive walls and towers, a large experienced army, and a capable law keeping force
19: Fortress City - massive walls, towers, and defensive weaponry, a large and well trained experienced army, and an experienced police/law force
20: Impregnable - As Fortress City with even greater capacity, no attacker would risk even a prolonged siege.

Ouroboros · April 4, 2011

Type of Government (optional)

1-2: Autocracy - ruled by a single nobel
3: Confederation - ruled by a variety of competing groups
4-5: Democracy - Citizens vote for their leaders
6-7: Hierarchy - Ruled by some kind of tiered group structure, much like most military
8-9:Gerontocracy - Ruled by the elders
10: Gynarcy - Ruled by a council women only
11-12: Magocracy - Ruled by a council of Mages only.
13-14: Military Government - Ruled by the military.
15-16: Monarchy - ruled by a royal family
17: Oligarchy - Ruled by the elite citizens
18: Pedocracy - Ruled by a council of scholars and wise men
19: Plutocracy - Ruled by the wealthy
20: Theocracy - Ruled by the religious heads

Level of Wealth (optional)

Presence of Magic

1-3: Non-existent - Either by law, prejudice, or simple lack of incentive there are no mages in this town.
4-6: Uncommon - Only a handful of magic users call the city home.
7-9: Familiar - Magic use is common enough to be routine but there are still only a few resident magic users.
10-12: Common - As above but with a greater number of magic using residents
13-15: Somewhat Prominent - Magic is commonplace with one or more guilds and many magic users living in the city.
16-18: Prominent - As above but with a great many resident mages who have voices in the local government.
19-20: Pervasive - Magic is so common it sees use in daily life of all citizens. Many magic users make their homes in the city and the government, military, law, and all other walks of life utilize magic.

Ouroboros · April 4, 2011

Presence of Religion

1-2: Non-existant - Religion is either outlawed or the citizenry are atheists or uncaring.
3-5: Moderate - A few churches and temples, the people are religious but not strongly so.
6-7: Mixed with one Prominent God - The people tend to be religious with a wide variety of faiths, though the worship of one god in particular is strong.
8-10: Single Dominant God - A single god and religion dominates the city pushing out or minimizing all others.
10-12: Indifferent or Noncommittal - Some of the populous is religious, others not. No one faith is strongly represented within the city.
14-16: Wide Open - A wide variety of religions with no clear majority or dominate faith.
17-18: Bizzare - Local cults or specialized religions unique to the region dominate the city.
19-20: Zealots! - A single faith dominates the city to the exclusion of all else and penetrates into the government, military, and all other aspects of life.

Ouroboros · April 4, 2011

Other factors to consider:

Racial breakdowns - % of each race within the city
Major economic focus - mining town, farming or mill towns, trading crossroads, etc
Major landmarks - Arcane University, World Wonder, Seat of Kingdom, ports, etc.
Style of architecture - wooden buildings & thatch roofs, stone an masonry, Gothic, cavern hewn, etc.

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