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Message: <blockquote data-quote="clark411" data-source="post: 1138762" data-attributes="member: 4768">"I want to rule the plane" should be preceeded by "I want to rule the world" which should be preceeded by "I want to rule the continent"... which should be preceeded by "I want to rule the country" which should come only after "I want to rule the duchy/barony/fief" and that comes only after you finish with the "I want to rule the city."So... build a city.  You say there are few people and you'll be recruiting them.  I recommend some policy that makes people want to come to you even if you're ruling with an iron fist and taxing the bejeezus out of them as your previous posts on the matter have implied.Are you powerful enough to provide a city protection above and beyond what a standard guard can?Are you the only one offering civilization in your immediate area (100 odd miles)?Are there people who are regularly victimized by war parties / raiders in the area?If so, excellent... if not, you're evil, so make it the case.  I would, in secret, rally some bandit group and start hitting the local dispersed villages or lone settlements.  After that, I would publically offer walls to the people- walls and organized safety in exchange for taxes, much of which would go into maintaining and improving the safety provided them.You can then apply that formula to the rest of your conquest / ascension.  Usually new planes/places have a sort of equilibrium in them- cities are there because they're strong enough to stay there.. long time rulers are there as they've managed to stake out a claim that no one strongly opposes.  As a new element from a new plane, it's up to you to shake things up and offer a better existance for these people.  It may not mean advancing out of the feudal age (personally I have cringe at players who say "Hey, I think it's time for the McMetagame Industrial Revolution!  Here's your mass-produced dwarven sword, and would you like fries with that?") but it will mean altering the current ... sociological equilibrium.In other words, stir stuff up, come in as the hero offering better, and then fortify your claim by solving the problems that you secretly made.  Do this on grander scales until literally the entire plane is at risk and you're the only one that can stop it.  That's the best evil in my opinion, the kind that will happily gamble an entire world or plane for its own betterment.</blockquote>

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