D&D 4E Strongholds, Followers, and Domains in 4e

[Kerrick]

I was thinking about this a bit last night, and I came up with something new.

A stronghold or domain's population is based on its owner's Leadership score, as noted below. All extra personnel are assumed to be families, servants, hirelings, etc. - not actual followers.

		Stronghold 	Domain
Basic		x1		x5
Average		x5		x10
Grand		x10		x15

So let's say you've got a Leadership score of 20 - that gives you 50 1st, 5 2nd, 3 3rd, 2 4th, and 1 5th level followers. If you've only got a basic stronghold, you can have up to another 60 nonessential personnel living there. If you had a basic domain, you could have up to 300 such people living in and around the stronghold.

Although, each stronghold/domain should have a population limit - you can't cram 120 people into a small keep, but you could into a larger one. Likewise, as your domain expands, you have more space for people to live - farms, nearby houses (in the city), a town around the keep, etc. The actual followers would be overseers, personal guards, crew chiefs, slave drivers, etc., while the extra people are the actual laborers, family members, etc.

 

[Sigdel]

I like what you've brainstormed so far. I think the best way to treat it is an artifact: when you do related things, your stronghold improves. I like the artifact system because it's outside the level system, it rewards PCs for wise management and it gives PCs a motivation to adventure.

I jotted down some very basic ideas related to strongholds-as-artifacts here: Strongholds - 4E "Classic" - General - Necromancer Games - Message Board - Yuku

Sorry to necro this thread but I have been looking for these rules for the last few months. I first saw them a few years ago and at the time they were not what I was looking for, but now that they are what I would like to use, I find the link-path that Khuxan posted a dead end.
So I am asking, begging, pleading, if anyone has a copy of what Khuxan first put up, or if Khuxan could put the rules up himself, I would be most grateful.