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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cbwjm" data-source="post: 9731123" data-attributes="member: 6788732">Sure. It's the dungeon world system which is used for settlements (or steadings in dungeon world terms) but I think it can probably be used well enough for a PC's new barony. It uses tags for population, prosperity, and defences which is sort of rated by a number but uses descriptors instead (so a 1 in prosperity is instead poor, while a 5 is rich). So you can have something like:Draven's Watch, a moderately prosperous (most mundane items available) town with a steady population (neither growing or shrinking) defended by armed guards.Other tags for Draven's Watch:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Resource: Iron Mine, the reason it was settled.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Blight: Orc and Gnoll raids (the other inhabitants of the valley the settlement is located in)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Oaths of fealty to Harrison's hold, a local lord who guards the eastern marches; support of Oakhurst, a small village located in the nearby forests.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Trades with: Oakhurst (meat and animals skins from Oakhurst), Harrison's hold (supplies them with iron)</li> </ul>Because it is just tags/descriptors you can expand it as you'd like, I threw in arcane and divine levels as well but didn't have a nice simple word to describe them. By the end of the campaign the orcs were allied with the town and the gnolls suffered a devastating defeat so that might result in the town growing after the blight tag being removed. It makes it easy to think about as you just make adjustments to the tags, adding new ones or removing old ones. I'm pretty sure it would work out well for PC domains.You might start using fronts from dungeon world to threaten larger domains, perhaps signs of a growing army of the mountain king that is going to sweep out of the mountains, but otherwise tags seem to do the trick and don't rely on too much book keeping for the DM or player. Even with a general description of the town, it's still less than a page to describe everything about it.</blockquote>

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