Recent content by cbwjm

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...

I've done the same with a thread titled something like "into the borderlands" I kept thinking it might be about a ttrpg version of the borderlands video game series.

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.

Thanks, I'll check that out.

And if the players do something that plausibly allows them to bypass those swamp encounters but the DM forces them through them anyway, that seems a good definition of railroading to me.

Thanks for the list, sounds like I have even more books to seek out and read through.

Birthright suggests focusing the action in the area the players are located, but it does have an events table that is rolled on each domain turn to see what, if anything happens. Can't remember how detailed it is and I'm sure birthright DMs would have expanded on it, but there is a system there...

I've always seen railroading as this is the sequence of events A-B-C. Even if you find a plausible way to bypass B and move on to C, B is going to happen to you anyway.

I do have that one. I'm mainly interested in 3e era ones for any ideas they might have.

And also here a few years later, and then a year after that, then the 10 year anniversary.

Does anyone know if 3e had anything that dealt with running domains or was that not until pathfinder that something was put together? I know they had the leadership feat which represented gaining followers like in earlier editions and I think there was a book about building strongholds, but I'm...

The d20 WoWRPG had a kind of similar system for building settlements, I can't remember what the stats were but it levelled up like a character with 4 "classes": civilian, arcane, divine, and military. Each gained different stats and skills and some feats might be easier to get or require with...

That's a large part of the reason I don't really want to get into a highly detailed domain system, something that players can easily interact with. Like you, I enjoy tinkering with this stuff as a DM, but I wouldn't want it to be too much of a focus during a session as a player. Mind you, as a...

I did have a look at An echo resounding (turns out I'd added to my drivethruRPG library at some point), I think it was too much for me when I read it a couple weeks back, but that might have been because I was flicking through it too fast trying to quickly grasp it.

Sounds almost like the inspiration for microscope RPG.