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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mlund" data-source="post: 4223422" data-attributes="member: 50304">I think Points of Light makes perfect sense if you stop trying to frame D&D in a Renaissance perspective. Heck, to truly get the Points of Light in a British setting you'd have to go back to before the Battle of Hastings - maybe the Arthurian period. We're talking about Petty Kindgoms here, maybe a few cities and towns - not a secured nation-state.Folks on the borderlands between Camelot and say, Lot's kingdom or the domains of the Picts have a lot of risks to deal with. "Border security" was typically limited to making sure you got your taxes and no other power center got control of your land. The throne running off Barbarians, Monsters, and Bandits was not the kind of thing you could regularly accomplish without a full sortie from your heartlands. You didn't do it every time some dirty Saxons with axes stole Farmer Johnson's cattle and then ran off. Sucks to be Farmer Johnson, though, since the tax collectors always seem to have the soldiers they need.- Marty Lund</blockquote>