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Malenfant
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I'm a bit perplexed by the logic of defining the government UWP (2d-7+population)...
There seems to be a general bias toward "hi pop = more likely to have totalitarian government". I'm not sure that this is remotely the case.
Why should hi-pop worlds be the only ones that have Religious Dictatorships (D), or Religious Autocracies (E) or Totalitarian Oligarchies (F)? There's no particular reason why these should only be found on worlds that more than hundreds of millions of people on them.
I wonder if it might be more sensible to separate government from population completely (eg just roll 3d-3 to get a number from 0-15(F)). You'd probably have to jiggle around the government types though, since thus would mean most results would be around the 3d6 average of 11, modified to 8.
Or roll 2d but with DMs for population that range between -3 and +3, rather than adding the entire POP digit.
Thoughts?
(I may have asked this before here, I can't recall)
There seems to be a general bias toward "hi pop = more likely to have totalitarian government". I'm not sure that this is remotely the case.
Why should hi-pop worlds be the only ones that have Religious Dictatorships (D), or Religious Autocracies (E) or Totalitarian Oligarchies (F)? There's no particular reason why these should only be found on worlds that more than hundreds of millions of people on them.
I wonder if it might be more sensible to separate government from population completely (eg just roll 3d-3 to get a number from 0-15(F)). You'd probably have to jiggle around the government types though, since thus would mean most results would be around the 3d6 average of 11, modified to 8.
Or roll 2d but with DMs for population that range between -3 and +3, rather than adding the entire POP digit.
Thoughts?
(I may have asked this before here, I can't recall)