Also here from the dicebreaker video and looking forward to building a small city for a homebrew campaign!
I had a blast and am very happy with how my city turned out. The development phase creating a real history is exactly what I wanted, though the power didn't come into any of my rolls; my city had a lot of hardships: predators, famine, pirates. I spent a lot of time losing and gaining resources. One thing that did happen was the famine had me remove a district when I only had one district. I wasn't sure what to do at that point. I just took a phase for natural growth and considered the district loss/growth a wash and moved on. Again, very happy. Thank you!