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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9863881" data-attributes="member: 2209">An interesting one for me is <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3279/hollowfaust-city-of-necromancers?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Hallowfaust: City of Necromancers</a> from the Scarred Lands. A strongly themed Necromancer magocratic city state, a strongly themed LN necromancer refuge in a hostile monster filled wilderness. It is different in being a place where mindless undead are openly used simply as protection and utilitarian service and non-evil necromancers are openly there and in power. Originally a bunch of necromancers just wanting a safe refuge base to live and do their research it built up with people flocking there for the stability in a dangerous magical post-apocalyptic world.It has a lot that I like, a strong interesting D&D theme that conceptually is fun and easy for players to get into, but the execution of some of the concepts just do not work for me. It goes hard on the research necromancers becoming efficient involved enlightened self-interest rulers for the city state down to the level of multipanel judges for court cases are made up solely of necromancers and not delegated servant bureaucrats. While I see magocrats wanting to hold power, I don't see research necromancers all giving up the time to bureaucratically staff everything anywhere near to the level portrayed in this 128 page book or to be any good at setting up or running such an involved bureaucracy focused on the good for the citizens and mostly not the necromancers themselves. It might just be my political science major and attorney background, but the practical government aspects jarred for me particularly and threw off my enjoyment of it.Scarred Lands in general had great themed city state sourcebooks, there was also the dwarven mage undermountain kingdom city state, the paladin run city under a dormant divine titanic mithril golem from the god war surrounded by monster lands, and a Conan style city of decadence one.</blockquote>

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