@WrongOnTheInternet Nah. We have less mountains and more tolerant former governors.
Plus, a much more bloody relationship with another US state. Did you know we almost got in a war with Michigan? More than just college football, folks.
@WrongOnTheInternet Yet everyone forgets bout both us AND Michigan and just talks about Indiana, with their race cars and their being the name of the purchase and all that.
@WrongOnTheInternet No, that's Illinois. Michigan is the guy's brother who tries as hard as possible not to be associated so just sorta blends into the background as a whole.
@WrongOnTheInternet Mmm, yeah. There's a point right there. But think about it, aside from the Flint fiasco, when's the last time you've heard anyone mention Michigan outside of sports?
@WrongOnTheInternet Ah. So looks like Michigan finally got dragged out into the street, shown the state their brother is in, and threatened with it. They did not meet the demands.
@WrongOnTheInternet The main political ideologies here are... "Who the president is gonna be" and "Sorry, I was too busy rooting for a failing sports team thAT JUST WON WOOOOOOOO"
@Papayaman1000 Well, property prices are stupid high in the Denver area, and outside the denver area is horrible poverty if you don't live in a resort town.
@WrongOnTheInternet What baffles me is that people eat at Dominoes there when they can get a pizza that tastes three times as good at a third of the price.
There are some issues with international speculation / ownership driving up real estate, but unfortunately ownership isn't (yet) tracked so it's all guessing.
@SPavel There's a whole lotta NIMBYs who freak out any time any rezoning other than single-family is proposed by the city. And renters won't speak out, because those freaking out are their landlords.
@nitsua60 Yeah, I think they need pruning but it's quite hard to decide which. I think maybe the “have you read the DMG…” and “what are you running…” comments are second-order-of-business and could probably be held until after they respond to the more basic requests.
@SevenSidedDie Thanks, I had the same question for 5e and found that one, but I suppose I should have asked it again with a different tag if I wanted to answer it. I know for next time now :)
@Gram Yeah, self-answering is totally okay to do! For that particular question it might not be a well-received question & answer because it's pretty quick to answer, but more uncertain self-answered questions tend to get upvote love. People like seeing non-obvious knowledge being shared.
oh, btw -- what elements of a campaign world should I have built first before starting play and what elements can I leave open to developing as needed?
@Shalvenay world building should be done kinda like an inverse doughnut: the players need information about their immediate surroundings, and information about the general world they're in (what kind of world is it, what are the basic pantheons and civilisations and so on), and don't really need to know anything in detail about any specific place they're not presently in.
so figure out the general shape of the big picture, and detail the place right around them, and everything else can be developed on the fly.
deadEarth chargen asks you to roll a minimum of 627d6 + 6d10 for chargen. There is no upper limit, and no guarantee you will get a playable character at the end of the process. So they suggest you roll three characters and pick the most playable.
So that's a bare minimum of 1,899 rolls for a single player's suggested chargen process.
I managed to roll a character who was going to die of liver failure in 1d6 years, reverse-age and die as an embryo in 1d6 weeks, and die of spontaneous combustion in 3d6 hours.
If I had a lot of time and very little to do, I might make a character sheet. If I had even more and even less of each, respectively, I might make a character sheet generator.
