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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tauric" data-source="post: 1197374" data-attributes="member: 7778">For the rest of the state (for the record, I grew up in East Lansing, but had family in Negaunee and Ishpeming):Michigan [Yuper]+2 Str:  summers spent chopping wood for winter, winters spent carrying wood+2 Con:  it gets really cold in winter, and can get surpiseingly (sp?) hot in the summer-2 Dex:  Yupers tend to be on the burly side-2 Cha:  nobody else seems to understand what they're saying+2 Innuendo with other Yupers (see above)+2 Survival (or whatever it's called in Modern, I only have 3 & 3.5):  excellent hunters+2 Fort saves:  running back and forth from frozen pond to sauna makes them hardyImmune to the bite of a Stirge (the mosquito is the state bird of the U.P., and the horseflies are actually the size of their namesake).Michigan, lower penninsula:no ability modifiers, we're pretty average specimens+2 swim:  you can't go 5 miles without hitting some body of water+2 Driving:  the rest of the state's roads aren't any better than Detroit's.+2 craft (automobile):  we like to repair our cars ourselves</blockquote>