While obviously there will be some snowflaking and whatever, there isn't generally much reason to do so. While there are some islands, the majority of places on Earth can vary in area rather than density.violence in the media wrote:Isn't the 1:10000 ratio supposed to be the baseline? Obviously, people are going to snowflake things up for their Knoxville or Billings local game and have however many creatures they feel are necessary. But when/if people write material for the setting at large, 1:10k is the assumed starting point. If a player in the Knoxville/Billings game decides to fly off to some place the MC hasn't anticipated, the 1:10k assumed ratio comes into effect.
1:10k is just the assumption that you should write up a reason for deviating from when planning your Lakeland by Night campaign.
Having a domain claim hinterland isn't a problem. Basically ever. Some of your creatures are some variety or another of forest monster and want to at least lair off in the woods outside explicitly urbanized areas. Some of your adventures want to be exploring shacks in the woods or haunted mansions outside of town. The only reason to not claim nearby rural and wilderness areas as potential lairs and adventure locations for your characters is if the urban core is already so populated with Kin that you have trouble keeping all the characters straight.
Consider a D&D campaign for a moment. If someone asked you if you wanted a Bladereach campaign to include the adjacent Banemires as part of the potential campaign space you'd answer "Yes." But you'd also look at them like they were stupid, because the answer is obviously yes. Similarly, an urban fantasy campaign set in Knoxville would obviously want to include Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Because, fucking obviously. Some of the creatures are going to want to go sleep or perform rituals or hunt deer or whatever in the woods, and the fact that they can drive there from the city center in 70 minutes means it's basically completely accessible anyway.
The only reason you wouldn't include Great Smoky Mountains National Park in your play space is if there were already too many characters to keep track of. Which means the only "special snow flakes" that actually make sense is having your target domain be underpopulated so that you can claim more space and get more cool landmarks in without having an overly large group of Supernaturals throwing their weight around.
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