Worldbuilding 10: The Lords of Capital, Part Three 

"Many machines on Ix, but no exchanges" Well played, Colville Haderach.

Speaking on the skill challenges section, there is a podcast with people playing DnD called Critical Hit that runs 4th edition DnD (usually) in which the (usual) DM frequently uses skill challenges and does a great job with them. It might be a good place to look for seeing why skill challenges are cool if you're still unsure from the streams so far.

I choose to believe that Zurok is the Dwarven equivalent of like 'John' or 'Mike'

Book of Names more like most useful DM tool ever printed.

Break ends at 1:40:50

Best intro ever!

In the world I wrote up, the king had an order of assassins who’s only job is to keep the economy stable. Anyone who has enough money to affect the economy negatively is quietly bumped off and the money is redistributed back into the economy to keep the value of gold, copper, and silver roughly the same.

I omow Ajax as the cleaner, less so as from the iliad, but I still think Ajax is a badass name.

As God is my witness I swear Matt colville and I must listen to the same music and remember the same silly things from movies. Helm to 108 !

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Where can I watch O.D&D? I'm having trouble finding it

You describing class systems is the first time I've distinctly thought "oh, Matt doesn't fully understand this aspect of society/history". Yes, culturally ingrained class systems like the one in the UK certainly have aspects which have nothing to do with how much money you have (you can be a Lord and have less money than someone who identifies as culturally working class). In a way, the UK classes almost behave more like castes in this way. However, the US does also have a class system, although it's not as core to people's cultural identities as the UK one. People in the US don't necessarily define themselves as "working class" or talk about class dynamics very much, but there are working class people in the US, and a lot of the country's political problems come from the fact that identity politics have supplanted class politics in the cultural imagination.

Can we please have access to this google doc?

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Matt I love your stuff but as someone who has grinded my way up the the economic ladder from below the poverty line, I am a little bothered by your "it's just about money and performance" stance. I moved from a dying rural community where nobody had anything and made myself a fairly comfortable life out here in Cali. There is a definite aura that exists with my coworkers here in which my background is only forgiven if I'm up to join in on mocking the shit out of the rural communities I came from. It's pretty grating to be honest. It just disappoints me to see people pretending this isn't something common in the US, especially so in California.

Hate to break it to u Matt but wealth or the lack thereof creates classes.

"Quay" is pronounced "key".

Please trim the 14 min of nothing off this video