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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silveras" data-source="post: 1198131" data-attributes="member: 6271">MMMM.... Master of Magic... no, I don't see as many parallels here as I do to Civ. I liked Master of Magic, and would love to see an updated version with newer graphics, etc.... unless it is done a la Master of Orion 3 (awful !). The approach I was taking with Birthright was to make it less world-specific. One of Birthright's few major flaws, in my view, is that many of its concepts are hard-wired to a specific campaign world-view. My revisions tried to address creating more generic versions of those aspects. My approach on rulership would be different, too. I think giving each character class additional features for rulership is the wrong approach. For example, I use Green Ronin's Shaman and Witch base classes. While neither is exactly likely to be a ruler, it can also be said that Bards are a bit of a stretch as Kings, too. No, a system that adds abilities to each class means that more work needs to be done as each Base class is added to the overall system. Hmm... and, Mr. Mearls, you missed the NPC classes (Aristocrat esp) when it came to handing out such modifications. I also disagree with the Template approach used by AMMS:WE; it seems wrong to just suddenly gift the ruler with a couple of levels worth of abilities. Although, with the "racial levels for templates" approach, it is pretty close to being a short Prestige Class (my approach). For modifying Birthright, I was working on a modified Aristocrat class that was more PC-quality, and a Regent 5-level Prestige Class (requirements: something to rule, and royal blood; benefits: +1 per level bonus on performing Domain Actions, 3 bonus feats). I also created a bunch of rulership-oriented feats like 'Efficient Military' and 'Efficient Bureaucracy' that allowed a Regent to save money on maintenance (military and domain, respectively). I was taking the same approach in coming up with mass combat statistics as is already present in Empire, so I certainly have no quibbles there  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> . Some other plugs: I will likely scrap my work on alternative Sources (A Birthright term for Power Nodes, Nexus points, etc.) and Ley Lines in favor of using the versions Heroes of High Favor: Elves (Badaxe Games). I am not going to bother revising the Birthright bloodline rules to feats (I had a working draft), and instead will focus on the Bloodgift feats from Hammer & Helm: A Guidebook to Dwarves (Green Ronin).I am looking forward to seeing what Green Ronin's Nobles' Handbook looks like. I have found the other volumes in the Master Class series quite good, so I have high expectations for this one, as well.</blockquote>

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