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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Someone" data-source="post: 2882445" data-attributes="member: 5656">Sure, I agree with that. See last response.I´m afraid I didn´t explain myself clearly, as usual. By saying "your approach is the wrong one" I mean that perhaps, instead of starting from the premises ("There are characters able to decimate an army. How would politics evolve?") we should instead try a different one, mainly "In may game I want large kingdoms ruled by relatively low level kings. How´s that possible?"Not necesarily. The premises are: characters don´t have their levels written on the face, so attacking another ruler is always risky*, and a sufficiently large number of characters are willing to fight in a king-of-the-throne game.*There´s a large potential employment for bards telling how badass the king is!I fail to see how. In King Puppet´s kigdom more characters of various levels can live, with a simple condition: they don´t want the throne, are afraid of fighting for it, or think another throne would be easier to conquer.There are various problems we´re talking about, so I´m not sure, but probably yes. In any case, though, the example isn´t intended as a foolproof, ironclad explanation of how large empires must necessarily and logically emerge from DMG´s demographics. Instead, is a tongue in cheek explanation of how we can join a desired result (large kingdoms) with the premises (DMG demographics), with enough verosimilitude to not break a player´s suspension of disbelief (and that´s what we´re looking for, isn´t it?), so it´s natural it has problems. But, if you´re at the table and your DM explains the history of the Pupper Dinasty to you, would you gladly swallow it with little effort, or would you start saying "Sorry lad, wait a moment. That thing it´s actually impossible because..."On another topic, (and believe me I don´t want to be insulting) the part about extrapolating the simplified PHB´s economics intended for equipping characters to setting economies made me laugh out loud. I wonder if horses are 10 feet wide in your games.</blockquote>

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