I would not want to go with 'change for change's sake' - the numbers
on 'Typical Stead' were reseached by John and Steve and I'm willing to
go with them.
Remember, the 'under 15' is very typical of a primitive society. Many
children won't be reaching 15 due to disease, injury or starvation in
those bad years....
Jeff
> Heck.
>
> reading TR again, I notice that the population refers to
adults, so
> a stead of 70 has 35 men, 35 women, and 70 children. This seems
slightly
> extreme to me (half the population is under 15?), but the numbers in
my
> list need to be increased by at least 50% to reflect this, which
makes the
> issue of stead governance even more extreme -- the Pat. and Mat. may
have
> to deal with 120-150 people!
>
> Peter Larsen