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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5553910" data-attributes="member: 82106">I think the issue is always the same issue with this kind of stuff. You can find very specific implementations which (at best) capture some aspect of this kind of thing that is useful within ONE setting or environment, or one narrow style of play. It is MUCH more difficult (I would say impossible in most cases) to make some kind of generic systems for these things that work in most games. Beyond that they have a somewhat negative effect. Once you have some 'Prestige' system that works adequately for a given setting/genre/playstyle it becomes the defacto approach everyone expects for every similar situation. Yet I do not believe you can make a Prestige system that would adequately cover Feudal Japan, Renaissance Italy, Dark Ages Europe, and Arabian Nights. Nor would every playstyle or genre really benefit from the same approach even for a specific setting. Likewise with things like realm rules. There are a lot of different styles of play where things like building castles, commanding armies, fighting mass battles, etc could occur. For instance my group would be utterly uninterested in playing through mechanically based mass combats, nor do they fit terribly well with my own DMing style and setting (though I've been a TT minis gamer for years and enjoy mass battles MYSELF, the players I have do not in general). IMHO the thing that is most useful for these kinds of play are general articles giving the DM and players ideas and outlining possible approaches. I'm OK with some UA article or tutorial article where someone goes into enough detail to allow someone to mechanically support these things in a specific way where they find that useful. I am just not convinced that the Big Book of How to Run a Kingdom or The Big Book of Intrigue and Politics is a great idea.</blockquote>

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