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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jacob Marley" data-source="post: 6090851" data-attributes="member: 89537">Yeah, A Game of Thrones is definitely part of the Appendix N for my campaigns. I take a lot of inspiration from history itself as well, in particular, the Hundred Year's War and the War of the Roses, but I also look to modern day political, economic and international relations theory and practice as guidance for my games.Without jumping too far into politics, I find the inner workings of the U.S. political system very influential. We have two political parties competing for power, each composed of various factions vying for influence; factions that will occasionally "cross the aisle" if they must. In addition, these factions are made up of individuals who all entered politics for various personal reasons. Observing how Washington works has been very influential on how I manage the competing factions within my Greyhawk campaign. I suppose the editors at The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and Foreign Policy magazine didn't anticipate their newspapers being used as role-playing game references! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I generally keep organizations and individuals loosely defined until the point I need to specifically define their actions (i.e. interaction with the PCs*). For example, what I wrote above about the Knights of Holy Shielding is the extent of the notes that I had written at the start of the campaign. As play progressed, the factions became more defined through interaction with the PCs via consultation with the Fate Chart in Mythic: Game Master Emulator. * This can be direct or indirect interaction. The PCs may deal directly with a particular NPC or hear about the situation through a bard in a taproom a dozen leagues away.I don't use a written timeline either, nor do I make the determination by DM fiat. Instead, I make use of series of random dice rolls to determine when and how the PCs discover events that are occurring in the "background." Specifically, the Event Focus Table from Mythic: Game Master Emulator.</blockquote>

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