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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mmadsen" data-source="post: 330564" data-attributes="member: 1645">I get the feeling many Game Masters really would rather be writing a novel; they just need the built-in audience provided by their gaming group.You make a really good point.  Unfortunately, it's not nearly as easy to fit a kingdom and armies into your game as it is to fit a magic sword and bigger, tougher monsters.D&D needs some good Birthright-esque rules for kingdoms and armies.  In particular, it needs a good way to fit heroes and their enemies into dramatic battles between larger armies.Take a vivid image (Rain of Fire) and follow its consequences.  What does this do to our grand land war?  Can we no longer concentrate our forces?  Or do we concentrate them and protect them with some magical counter?  Or is there a mundane counter?  Or do both forces keep their forces spread out, then time a grand concentration in one big break-through attack?Or take a vivid image (thousands upon thousand of quasi-Roman legionaries marching on the mountain-top citadel of the vampire lord) and figure out what could logically lead to it, and shape your game that way.</blockquote>