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This is the thing, really. The point of the popes was they wielded a massive amount of worldly power in medieval Europe. Your typical...

To solve the whole Commune/Divination problem you just need something answering on each side of the schism, it doesn't really have to...

Really depends on how magic heavy your world is, because as others have noted, places with serious winters generally avoided large scale...

Historically you generally didn’t.

Historically I don’t think it was generally done, with the exception being the maintenance of sieges. You read about the 'campaigning...

Fiest you need to define the kind of winter the territory experiences. The war you can wage will vary. Is this kind of winter where...

There would likely need to be a Valley Forge place where you can winter camp if you still wanted to wage war, otherwise most armies went...

Your army goes village to village of your enemy, killing and taking their food, and burning their stuff for warmth.

I recall that Power of Faerun had a chapter on religious authority that talked about this a lot, albeit in the context of religious...

In D&D the eternal problem is spells like Commune. Doctrinal or hierarchical schisms are had to sustain when once you hit level 9 you...

How many places have one head of the church? Do all the gods have a head of church? Do all of them get together once a year to create...

Cadaver Synod except instead of being dead the previous Pope's undead and they have to end the threat the lich poses.

So Highlander/Kaiju fights with Popes? I am so in.

One obvious possiblity, since we're dealing with a group that has easy access to high-level divine magic, is how one deals with passing...

I would assume that combat would basically be halted during winter and its more about taking each other’s supplies. Typical fighting...