Consider the passage of time, yes, with regards to how long it takes to build stuff, or how long it takes to combat opposing realms, etc. But it sounds like you're looking for domain events specifically, which I'd recommend looking around online for.. there are a fair number of supplements with tables for events, I used some of them in my (too brief) Birthright-inspired game. I imagine if ACKS has it, that'd be a good source as well.
Thanks, I'll check that out.
It should be pretty easy to port over to different editions/systems you don't even need to keep the whole divine bloodline if you want to strip it out.
I agree. I always felt the whole holdings system was quite elegant. Abstract enough that it could fit lots of different cultures and societies. I particularly liked the way the domain books interpreted the holdings form abstract to the specific.
Yeah, the abstractness is one of the benefits. I quite like guilds because, like the other holdings, you don't need to define them but it can be fun to. You might say a guild is based on forestry or mining or fishing and it helps define the important industries in your domain which might help in some roleplaying situations or just as a description as PCs move around the domain and see more mining or logging equipment and workers about the place.
I think it was translated into d20 on an unofficial basis, with WotC's blessing, back in the day.
Yeah, I think that was on the old birthright.net site but I keep getting a timeout when trying to access the site.
