I remember I’d just happened to buy a resin 3d printer, and so had bought a few masks to use for that. I got into printing and painting Warhammer because of the pandemic. Still have a a small army that’s entirely printed and about 3/4 painted from that time.
Similarly, from an engineer’s perspective, scientists are a great addition to the working group when you need to find the flaws in the system, but awful when you actually just need something to go into the real world and work 80% of the time ;)
Program management system for the entire division? Excel. “Agile” task tracker? Excel. Requirements manager? Oh no no, that one’s written in a word document with no version control. I have trauma. Use tools made for the thing you want to do, please.
The room is pitch black, you’re relying on dark vision, and you just failed your perception check. I can definitely see this happening outside of bad DM’ing, and I think the PC being sus of a blank room in an otherwise dangerous dungeon could also be in character.
If they were able to meet the actual up/down metrics for the subsidy, I don’t see why they shouldn’t get it. But they weren’t able to do that, so they don’t get the subsidy.
I’d say likely yes to this. It’s much easier to centrally govern a more geographically dense and homogeneous country.
In the US we have strong localized government (city/county, state) and the more sweeping Federal government.
And they do submit to central government, that’s exactly what the discussion in this article is about- will the central court decide to strike down their local laws?
I feel like it’d make gift giving more difficult, but more meaningful- you would have to give people actually customized things, something you made or something you think they need that they haven’t noticed. Harder, but shows more thought than giving generic-consumer-item#528