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[iofhua]

Is there any advantage to having a larger-size human town develop in your world? You can see them grow on the world map during world gen:

+ = small size town
* = medium size town
# = large size town
There is also a gigantic size that uses an asterisk with a hole in it, I don't know how to type it.

Do they have better stuff, or more places to explore in adventurer mode? Or does the size just not matter at all?

[Astrid]

The larger the town the larger the population, usually...

The largest towns do contain shops and such places, sewers, etc. The smallest villages usually contain not much more than homes and a well.
You wont find artifact weapons in human towns. And you probably wont find more useful stuff than what you can 'borrow' from a random enemy. You can sell your stuff in the larger towns, but as of right now that's not really worth doing.

Matter of taste really.

[davidc]

There is also a gigantic size that uses an asterisk with a hole in it, I don't know how to type it.

Pretty sure that's a Turtleman town.

[iofhua]

Nope it's human. You can see the different site characters here:
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Site

Also thanks for the help, everyone. I have been generating a lot of worlds over the weekend trying to find that perfect embark location. It's good to know that the larger towns have more places to explore in adventurer mode.

[draeath]

You can sell your stuff in the larger towns, but as of right now that's not really worth doing.

Coins make for wonderful throwing munitions, and you can carry a lot of them.