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<blockquote data-quote="Gez" data-source="post: 708032" data-attributes="member: 1328">First, there's a question of mindset. I don't know about you, but I have trouble imagining a cleric of a deity of war, magic or nature (the three types of deities prevalent in a D&amp;D world) bothering his deity with discussions on what is the best political system for the greater good. It's just an idea they won't have.Karl Marx hadn't written his Manifesto during a period of stable feudalism, but after huge society changes coming from industrial revolution. Same thing here, as long as something seems to work OK, why try to fix it ? Why even have the idea to fix it ?In other words, they may fight against a cruel/unfair/oppressive king; but they won't have the idea of fighting against the system of royalty.Furthermore, it's true high level characters (level 10+) may have devastating effects. But they'll be quite numerous. In a fantasy world, kings, hierophants, archmages, and guildboss are usually very high-level also -- and they usually are on the side of the status-quo. Rogue adventurers wanting to upset the state of things will have equally powerful heroes on their back. See Sep's excellent story hour (especially the <a href="http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&amp;threadid=13733" target="_blank">Heretic of Wyre chapters 1</a> &amp; <a href="http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&amp;threadid=18032" target="_blank">2</a>) for an illustration of that.The Birthright setting was also a good illustration of how magic and feudalism blend well.Finally, magic -- which's the problem here, as always, damn magic, it ain't working like normal reality -- lend itself very well to nobility indeed. As an anecdote, one of my PC is an aristocrat/sorcerer. Her sorcerous bloodline is her &quot;divine right&quot; to rule. And her idea of how things must be are very feodal (with her on the top of the pyramid, of course). Sure, that may be seen as a sort of magogracy, but it's magocratic only because the royal family has a sorcerous bloodline.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gez, post: 708032, member: 1328"] First, there's a question of mindset. I don't know about you, but I have trouble imagining a cleric of a deity of war, magic or nature (the three types of deities prevalent in a D&D world) bothering his deity with discussions on what is the best political system for the greater good. It's just an idea they won't have. Karl Marx hadn't written his Manifesto during a period of stable feudalism, but after huge society changes coming from industrial revolution. Same thing here, as long as something seems to work OK, why try to fix it ? Why even have the idea to fix it ? In other words, they may fight against a cruel/unfair/oppressive king; but they won't have the idea of fighting against the system of royalty. Furthermore, it's true high level characters (level 10+) may have devastating effects. But they'll be quite numerous. In a fantasy world, kings, hierophants, archmages, and guildboss are usually very high-level also -- and they usually are on the side of the status-quo. Rogue adventurers wanting to upset the state of things will have equally powerful heroes on their back. See Sep's excellent story hour (especially the [url=http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=13733]Heretic of Wyre chapters 1[/url] & [url=http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18032]2[/url]) for an illustration of that. The Birthright setting was also a good illustration of how magic and feudalism blend well. Finally, magic -- which's the problem here, as always, damn magic, it ain't working like normal reality -- lend itself very well to nobility indeed. As an anecdote, one of my PC is an aristocrat/sorcerer. Her sorcerous bloodline is her "divine right" to rule. And her idea of how things must be are very feodal (with her on the top of the pyramid, of course). Sure, that may be seen as a sort of magogracy, but it's magocratic only because the royal family has a sorcerous bloodline. [/QUOTE]

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