From 3248ce35fe549f053d3e83d3c96a40bd0977fd26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Senji Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 09:10:51 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] More thoughts on children --- Meta/Brainstorming.mdwn | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Meta/Brainstorming.mdwn b/Meta/Brainstorming.mdwn index 583656ff..74f7daf8 100644 --- a/Meta/Brainstorming.mdwn +++ b/Meta/Brainstorming.mdwn @@ -87,4 +87,36 @@ So that just about fits in for the 10-days in a season. Allowing for weather an Children -------- -Approximately [[nine sixteenths|http://www.representingchildhood.pitt.edu/medieval_child.htm]] of live births survived to the age of 10 and in 1250 they had a life expectancy of about 30 more years at that point. Population was growing at an amazing rate (England was in danger of a Malthusian collapse by the time the Black Death hit a century later) so babies were being live-born at about twice the replacement rate - 1 for every 15 people over the age of 10 each year. The covenant pays well (positive LCM) so infant mortality will be below average and mostly below the age of 5 (we can ignore kids below that age. Lets say 25% total infant mortality - actually it's going to work out slightly less than that when we convert to covenant population points), so lets call that 1 for every 20 over 10. Each Year. So a full fifth of the covenant population is going to be between 5 and 10 at any point. Better keep them away from the magi! Actually it isn't because the LCM factor applies to the adults too - meaning they'll live longer. As an aside approxinately 1% of pregnancies are twins (but twin births tend to be bad news in medieval times). +Approximately [[nine +sixteenths|http://www.representingchildhood.pitt.edu/medieval_child.htm]] +of live births survived to the age of 10 and in 1250 they had a life +expectancy of about 30 more years at that point. Population was +growing at an amazing rate (England was in danger of a Malthusian +collapse by the time the Black Death hit a century later) so babies +were being live-born at about twice the replacement rate - 1 for every +15 people over the age of 10 each year. The covenant pays well +(positive LCM) so infant mortality will be below average and mostly +below the age of 5 (we can ignore kids below that age. Lets say 25% +total infant mortality - actually it's going to work out slightly less +than that when we convert to covenant population points), so lets call +that 1 for every 20 over 10. Each Year. So a full fifth of the +covenant population is going to be between 5 and 10 at any point. +Better keep them away from the magi! Actually it isn't because the +LCM factor applies to the adults too - meaning they'll live longer. +As an aside approxinately 1% of pregnancies are twins (but twin births +tend to be bad news in medieval times). + +Our base poppoint value is two points per normal covenfolk but to +allow for the number of specialists and the longer life as mentioned +above lets call that 2½ (we'll come back later when we have actual +statistics) so that's going to be one kid per 50 population points per +year. Before you start drooling over all the potential apprentices +then note that under the baseline rate of the gift (about 1/10000) we +can expect one gifted child a millennium or so. Even if we assume +that conditions are somehow particularly favourable (they probably +aren't) that's not going to get better than once a century or so. + +Mere Supernatural abilities are going to be more common though -- many +of them run in families, the covenent is more understanding of +strangeness, and the kids are spending less of their time in a strong +Dominion aura than most inhabitants of Mythic Europe. -- 2.30.2