I’m a GM running Extinction Curse, and one of my players wants to be a chic business woman from Absolom — but whose business really originated in a much more hardscrabble city. She suggested “the Detroit of Golarion”.
What would that city be? Is there a city that’s fallen upon hard economic times that’s a reasonable distance from Absolom?
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I’m a GM running Extinction Curse, and one of my players wants to be a chic business woman from Absolom — but whose business really originated in a much more hardscrabble city. She suggested “the Detroit of Golarion”.
What would that city be? Is there a city that’s fallen upon hard economic times that’s a reasonable distance from Absolom?
Several, including some that have not been suggested yet. But Detroit was specifically the "motor city," and its hard economic times were prompted by the decline of employment in that central industry. So what is your player's business? If a merchant, what does she trade in? If an industrialist, what does her business make?
Someplace like Numeria. The cities could be a rundown combo of magic/tech with rusty buildings, lots of dirt, smokey/pollution. Also down in the Mana Wastes where they make guns.
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The only industry which suffered a large scale setback was slavery.
Or maybe something local, for example now that the mendevian crusades are over the towns and cities which economies depended on supplying said crusaders now have hit hard times.
You're onto something here, which is that the Inner Sea Region is at most proto-capitalist and thus doesn't really have a business cycle. Booms and busts (whether generally or in particular industries) are driven primarily by good and bad harvests, wars, and government policies, not by endemic overproduction.