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<blockquote data-quote="Rechan" data-source="post: 4796407" data-attributes="member: 54846">All this talk of &quot;PCs can't be in charge of anything and adventure&quot;, I advise you to pick up the book &quot;Powers of Faerun&quot;.That book is all about campaigns designed with PCs in charge of things.Maybe I'm wrong, but I always felt &quot;adventure&quot; had little to do with &quot;Go out and find a dungeon&quot;. I've ran several city campaigns. Adventure can be had in a single location - granted, it's going to require more work, and more establishment, but the adventures barely involve dungeoncrawls, and are still fun and rewarding. But, now that I'm rubbing two braincells together, it would be easy to establish adventures for PCs if they are rulers. You just have to have the adventure come to the PCs, rather than the other way around: assassination attempts, moles in the court, the city under siege (and thus, defending/marshalling the defense). X happening to the King while he's on a hunting trip. A portal/plague/natural disaster occurring in the King's city, thus panic and action and escape and suchlike.What about a Barbarian king? Where &quot;Might makes Right&quot;, and the king of the barbarians is supposed to be the baddest dude around, who has to show how awesome he is with feats of strength, and contest rivals in single combat? What about Argamemnon of the Battle of Troy - who personally went to get his wife back? What about King Arthur, who was The adventuring King?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rechan, post: 4796407, member: 54846"] All this talk of "PCs can't be in charge of anything and adventure", I advise you to pick up the book "Powers of Faerun". That book is [I]all[/I] about campaigns designed with PCs in charge of things. Maybe I'm wrong, but I always felt "adventure" had little to do with "Go out and find a dungeon". I've ran several city campaigns. Adventure can be had in a single location - granted, it's going to require more work, and more establishment, but the adventures barely involve dungeoncrawls, and are still fun and rewarding. But, now that I'm rubbing two braincells together, it would be easy to establish adventures for PCs if they are rulers. You just have to have the adventure come [i]to[/i] the PCs, rather than the other way around: assassination attempts, moles in the court, the city under siege (and thus, defending/marshalling the defense). X happening to the King while he's on a hunting trip. A portal/plague/natural disaster occurring in the King's city, thus panic and action and escape and suchlike. What about a [i]Barbarian king[/i]? Where "Might makes Right", and the king of the barbarians is [i]supposed[/i] to be the baddest dude around, who has to show how awesome he is with feats of strength, and contest rivals in single combat? What about Argamemnon of the Battle of Troy - who personally went to get his wife back? What about King Arthur, who was [i]The[/i] adventuring King? [/QUOTE]

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