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Message: <blockquote data-quote="taliesin15" data-source="post: 3080642" data-attributes="member: 22058">Really, there's a couple of questions at hand here. I find it kind of odd that the assumption is that PCs will ultimately become the rulers, and retire comfortably. Perhaps it all points to a great deal of unrealistic parameters inherent even in a fantasy role playing game. Almost like nobody's read the Fafhrd and Grey Mouser stories. Then again, one can easily imagine the whining from players if their mid level characters ever got their house with all their booty and both their girlfriends torched, ended up working as mercenaries and drinking themselves to oblivion every night at a seedy bar, only to one night have some spellcaster put a Geas on them, which has them halfway across the world, etc. The notion that their characters could ever end up poor, hungry and scrounging for pennies (but still 6th level) is anathema to most players. Probably says something about class and society in the west, but no politics...The main thrust of the first post seemed to be at governments, and again I find myself scratching my head. IMC, as I think most, you have a mixture of monarchies, tyrannies, theocracies, plutocracies, family (clans) or class(social)-based rule, and maybe the occasional republic. Gygax's essay on this in the first DMG has yet to be surpassed vis a vis RPGs, AFAIK. Try there first.</blockquote>