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Message: <blockquote data-quote="painandgreed" data-source="post: 3083508" data-attributes="member: 24969">I would disagree, especially in large melees. If you're a fighter in the third rank back of a unit. Your first rank has fallen and the second is getting worn down and you think the outcome is fortold. You can run instead of step up. Enemy forces cannot chase you or they will suffer AoO from your second rank. Even if they do, they cannot catch you if similarly armored. Even the second rank can probably withdaw and not get attacked as long as the movement between the chaser and the chased is the same. From there it becomes a matter of con to see who can run farther unless they can reach the treeline and use hide.Once everybody is running and not attacking, the mounted units come into play as they can run up to the enemy, then take a standard move action and an attack. The person on foot can then either take an AoO and run or withdraw at twice speed with no AoE usually setting themselves up for another attack by mounted attacker. This is how cav runs down routed troops.Back to governments, one should not discount the emotional motivators besides game mechanics. Rallying under "the son of good King Robert" will have greater effect than rallying under some unknown with twice the levels. Lawful societies are going to want orderly means of inheritance and a kingdom will prosper greater by having an easy transition to a low level king that a rough one, with possible civil war, to a high level adventurer.I also think that the act of ruling will probably be the adventure. The king won't have to take time off to adventure as his duties will probably require him to do so. Leading his men into combat. Chasing down monsters that threaten the kingdom. Fighting in wars and riding the kingdom of bandits. Sure, he could always allow others to do this, but it would be fully within a kings duty to ride out and do this themselves and gain XP and support from the kingdom for doing so.Then you also have to consider that the game has gods and clerics. Most coronations probably include some amount of divination to justify the kings rule, possibly passing a king over if the divination is bad. There is also the possiblity of actual divine right. The king and his family may claim right of rulership due to celestial bloodline or because they are actually blessed by the gods. If a god sends messages to all their clerics telling them who should be king, its pretty sure who they will support to be king.</blockquote>

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