So I've been brainstorming a bit, and I would love to know your opinion for the campaign world I've thought up of for D&D 5e:
"The four elemental gods have fought a war, and it has destroyed the world above. Humans now live in the underground, and are accompanied by the halflings who escaped to the underground when they first saw the seeds of conflict. Humans are deeply shamanistic and fiercely devout to their select elemental god, and when they turn approximately 40 years old they start a transformation that will last about another twenty years and will eventually turn them into a genasi. While humans that believed in a certain elemental god are more likely to become a genasi dedicated to him, there are rare occasions when they are transformed to a genasi of another type, and are then usually exiled from their tribe. While many humans live in a nomadic lifestyle, the halflings are more inclined to live in cities, and the more open cities (usually lightfoot-heavy ones) also accept humans, and those cities are where many of the exiled genasi live in. To all of the mentioned people the tunnels are relatively new, and new species and plants are being discovered every so often."
What do you think of it? Also, do you think it will be best suited to a one-shot, or perhaps a longer campaign?
I mean, this is implausible as heck, but the idea is still cool.
I cannot speak for the English but I know the French wanted a strong Polish ally as a replacement for Russia (given the revolution) as an eastern deterrent against Germany. However one of the most contentious portions of Versailles was the Polish Corridor, whose main purpose was to give the new Polish state access to the sea. What I am wondering, is couldn't the French have killed two birds with one stone by advocating both for a united Polish-Lithuanian State whose port would be the Lithuanian coastline?
Let me know if this is better suited for r/HistoryWhatIf, but I am genuinely curious why the Allies didn't take the opportunity to make such a large state in Eastern Europe as a bulwark both against the rise of communism in the area as well as to keep tabs on German eastern-ambition.
After WW1 ended, the generation who fought mostly in the Western Front was shocked to the core, left traumatized and in some point nihilistic, but, in WW2, the generation who came home, even if the war was more atrocious with the events of the Holocaust and battles like Stalingrad or Berlin, was more cheerful, starting a small golden era until the 70s Why was that? What made the difference?
I'm not a historian in even the loosest sense of the word. I've read a few books, watched a few documentaries, etc. Based on what little I know, it would have gone something like this:
Without American troops backing them, the British would have been less eager to make headways into the heart of Europe through Italy, and the Normandy invasion would have been unthinkable. Their front would have been mostly limited to bombing runs on Germany and direct confrontations in both North Africa, which they may have been able to take completely once Rommel was out of action, and Southeast Asia, where they may have managed to drive the Japanese back out of Burma, but no further.
As such, the war would eventually be reduced to a stand-up slugging match between Germany and Russia, a war that Russia would have eventually won, but at much greater length and much greater cost. Hitler and Mussolini would have had to allocate fewer troops to the Western front due to the lack of invasion, which meant they would have more to throw at Russia. Likewise, Japan, unweakened due to not being at war with America, might have broken their separate peace with Russia to come to the aid of their Axis allies, forcing the Russians into a second front of their own.
When the dust finally settled, Germany would have been in ruins, while Russia is completely spent but with a majority of Western Europe under its direct control, which could possibly become a series of satellite communist states when order is re-established. The United States is completely untouched, but far less influential due to the lack of military impetus slowing development of the atom bomb and the general lack of respect that comes from standing around doing nothing when everyone else is fighting. The Cold War starts up later than usual, both because WWII lasted longer and because the kick-off event of the Berlin airlift never happens, but inevitably the ambitions of the USA and USSR would result in butting heads. However, Russia would have both an advantage in its European gains and a disadvantage in that it would need significantly longer to recover its strength.
That's my best guess. I'd love to hear if I'm totally off-base, though.
So many people died in the conflict and it is known that Treblinka was almost wiped off the map and in the records by the Nazis and almost went unnoticed. This camp exterminated about 1.6 million people and only had a handful of survivors. However, these handful of survivors wouldn't have known the total number. This is the same for other camps such as Auschwitz.
So how long did it take for people to count up the numbers?
Or a better way of phrasing this: how long did it take them to know the true number?
Some points like how the hyuga main and branch family conflict was solved The truth about Itachi being told to people of Konoha Kakashi's days as a hokage and others
In the utter chaos and destruction that was World War II, how did the world and it's governments clean up and return to normal? (Or some form of normal.)
