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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Storm Raven" data-source="post: 4162029" data-attributes="member: 307">This line of thinking is only valid if you believe that the PCs are special snowflakes in the campaign world. It is also probably only true if the campaign world is poorly designed. The people in power in a D&D reality would be the people who can stay in power. Anyone who couldn't deal with a pack of miscreant adventurers would be replaced in short order by someone who could (or by the miscreants themselves). If the ruler doesn't have the resources to deal with a murderous archmage, or random groups of wild adventurers, he's not going to last.If the campaign world is worked out to any reasonable extent, then those in power will be in power for a reason, and that reason has to include answers to the questions (a) how did they get into power, and (b) how to they hold on to power. If those two questions aren't answered in some way, then the world will probably appear to make little sense to anyone who spends more than a minute or two thinking about it.</blockquote>