Post #4220394
2026-07-29 17:11 UTC
I think I've got a good system for using no more than 3d6 to simulate evolution up through at least the end of the paleozoic--there have been extinctions, but not a mass extinction unless you roll particularly poorly.
Now I'm trying it out on my latest science-based Earth-like planet 'simulation' and excited to see that my two land-pioneer vertebrates happened to randomly colonize two different biomes on two different continents. Exciting!
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@michaelc@scholar.social 2026-07-29 17:48
Based on die rolls and a random latitude/longitude generator, it looks like I've got 5 pioneer species on land. Three (a gastropod, an arthropod, and a vertebrate) are on one continent, and two (arthropod and vertebrate) are on another. The gastropod's random location for emerging onto land was actually between the continent and an island chain, so I'm putting some on both and letting their geographic separation do its thing. Meanwhile the rift valley on Continent A evolved insects! 2/n