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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Piratecat" data-source="post: 527127" data-attributes="member: 2">I faced this same question when I developed <a href="http://www.d20reviews.com/StoryHours/PC1.zip" target="_blank">Eversink</a>, and here's how I did it:1. Develop your major power centers. Who are the groups playing around in politics? In my case, it was 3-4 major merchant families and 4-5 minor merchant families riding on their coattails. I also added in a town council, an assassin's guild, the main church, and a powerful organization of adventurer mercenaries.  With this, I had enough people for major and minor political plots.  Make sure that every organization and major NPC has a secret. The secret may never come into play, but it will be REALLY useful in helping you build adventures. For instance, one of the secrets in my game is that Lord Griggan had visitations of what he thought was an angel, who would tell him secrets about other Families. Griggan's wife's secret was that she was pregnant by another man - an elf - and she was terrified of what would happen when the baby was born.  That sort of thing.2. Determine the minor power centers.  Every group has leaders, some of whom are opposed to one another.I took the families I was using for my main plot, and predicated an old matriarch and her bitter, conniving son. I also had a former assassin who is politically prominent, some people who desperately wanted the PCs' help/approval, and some people who were jealous of the group.3. What are the groups currently up to?  There are two main types of political adventures. One has the society in status quo, but the arrival of the PCs shakes things up like a rock tossed into a still pond. The other has the political forces striving towards something, and the PCs can help or hurt these plans.4. Why are the PCs important?  They can help or hurt. they may become the "flavor of the week", invited to lots of parties then dropped when something better comes around. They may become actually useful, in which case they could be adopted.Remember that in politics, suggestion is as important as fact. The PCs may only say hi in passing to a political boss, but if someone else sees them "conferring", rumors are going to fly.</blockquote>

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