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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bugbear" data-source="post: 754599" data-attributes="member: 503">Very difficult indeed.  Most "nations" in the Forgotten Realms are not really nations at all, just various communites surrounded by wilderness. For example outside of say a days ride of Silverymoon, The region is controlled not my the union of the Silver Marches, but by various humaniods.  Even in say Cormyr (which probibly comes the closest to being an actual nation) any thing beyond two or three days outside a major city is controlled only in name.therefore you couldn't use the size of a region to determine it's  power level.  Perhaps if you used the population of a region as the base line to start.  Then figure in any powerful npcs who call the region home. You would also need to figure out the relative power of various churches and cults to each other, as well as other organizations.  and then determine the amount of influence that each church and organization exerts in a given region. (You may want to figure organizations themselves as regions of there own, with there own "Power Level")Once you have all of that, you will have a reference for comparing the relitive power and influence that one nation may have over another.But then again, I just got done DMing a eight hour session, so I may just be talking out my butt.~Bugbear</blockquote>