It takes a village to raise a PC (note: not a PC origin story!)

[atemu1234]

I'm working on a Diopsid village for the PCs to visit while they're in the underdark, and I have a few questions.

1. How big should the village be? I don't want to make a ton of NPCs, but I want it to have the appearance of a clan.
2. How should they interact with the PCs? With the personalities given to the Diopsid in dragon compendium, I'm thinking they'll honor them, but that's just a guideline.
3. How should they interact with other villages? I'm thinking they trade with the nearby Githerzai and Githyanki (I homebrewed this. There's a githyanki and a githerzai nation in the underdark apiece, rather than planes or the like).

[Dr. Azkur]

Are the Diopsid described anywhere besides the Dragon Compendium or a Dragon Magazine?

[atemu1234]

Not as far as I know, no.

[Dr. Azkur]

About a dozen combatants and half again as many non-combatants seems right for a clan. They seem like they would treat strangers very well, just like a store owner would treat a potential buyer, trying to be charming and pleasing, but not giving anything away for free.

[VoxRationis]

30 people is a very small clan in the technical sense of the word.

[Dr. Azkur]

Aren't clans measured by how many elbows there are? 120 elbows is plenty!

[drack]

30 people is a very small clan in the technical sense of the word.

30 can be fine for a clan. Hechk a small clan could probably have closser to 10-20 expecially if there's fluff of many recent deaths. Still ass GM you're not RPing all of them, so make up 6 that stand out to the PCs, and have the rest just be a general number that you tell the PCs