Re:Vingan Number Crunching

From: Michael Hitchens <michaelh_at_0Ram94zFAwQMmvNOVPU_RiKwF6MPLrpHyiVBUIxyHNlm3PXfh2iUZDyk9qu1w0sGcqi>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:11:01 +1000 (EST)


On Sun, 8 Apr 2007, Ian Cooper wrote:

> I think we have forgotten some previous work on the 15% problem on the
> HeroQuest-RPG list, and some insights from Greg. In figuring this out in
> the past we looked at the population of the whole of Sartar and took the
> 15% figure from the whole population (c. 27,000) rather than per clan.
> We then reasoned that many of these people might live in the towns and
> cities.
>
> Greg also pointed out that rather than even distribution across many
> clans we were likely to see clans clusters of worship in specific clans,
> at perhaps more than the 15% figure. So for example the Isolting clan of
> the Malani have many worshippers of Humakt. So this 15% is not evenly
> distributed in each clan. Greg figured that it was likely that there
> were two Humakti clans, and then a scattering everywhere else (which
> some wag pointed out was probably entirely player characters). You can
> find the numbers in an article on the Glorantha site:
> http://www.glorantha.com/new/q-and-a/humakti.html
>
> So if you want to find your missing women, you also look for clans that
> have significant clusters of people following other-ways, perhaps a clan
> that has a lot of Maran women for example, instead of relying on the
> idea that there are 15% of women following other ways per clan.
>
> It is something I got a little wrong in my first Red Cow write up,
> because each clan has its a group of 'one-in-seven' who follow other
> ways. I now think it is enough to leave that at the Heler loving Red Cow
> and Elmal loving Dolutha among the Cinsina and have smaller percentages
> of those following 'other-ways' among the other clans.

Fair enough, but the original question was not necessarily about the individual clan level - it just made it easier to crunch some numbers that way. It was more like "of the 15% women over all Sartar, are the majority o them Vingans?" and Greg said no. Which settled that.

Michael



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