Villages are smaller so they are easier to generate and fit on a page than towns. But people design based on what they experience (in games and in real-life). S

Villages are smaller so they are easier to generate and fit on a page than towns. But people design based on what they experience (in games and in real-life). So most adventures take place in towns or in the wilderness. Americans probably never seen a village. > A realistic town might need 300 houses for each inn 300 houses in one place is already a big city in dark ages. Let's say 2 stories with 2 families on each level, with 5 people in each family - that's 20*300 = 6000 people. 6000 people would probably be top 10 city in a kingdom in 1300. Rome was 25 000 people back then. And inns were mostly for travellers, so the number of houses weren't that important - it mattered if you are integer number of days of travel from the last trade center.