[Political supplements] Let's classify and list them!

[Heretic Apostate]

I'm hoping this will start a series of threads that will help classify and list supplements of various types. Please help refine the classifications, and list appropriate supplements for them. And if you can think of other mega-classifications that need to be broken down, list those as well.

Political supplements. To me, a political supplement can fall into one of four classifications.

1) Kingdom vs. Kingdom
Warfare, espionage, assassinations.

2) Running a Kingdom
Resource allocation, establishing control.

3) Running a Royal Court
Intrigue, social skills.

4) Running a Noble House (or Merchant House or Crime Cartel)
The Great Game. Competition for power within a kingdom (whether ruthless or not). I'm lumping in Merchant Houses and Crime Cartels for those who wish to play the Merchant Houses of Dark Sun or the Crime Cartels of various cities.


Examples of situations where I'd need each type of supplement:

Crane Clan courtier (Rokugan) would need #3 for the intrigue.

Birthright campaign would need #1 to pit kingdom against kingdom, and would need #2 to allocate resources and compete for control.

Feist's Lady of Empire trilogy or Initiate Brother/Gatherer of Cloud campaigns (noble houses competing for dominance; Acoma for Lady of Empire, Shonto for Initiate Brother) would require #4.

Again, if you can think of supplements that fit into different classifications, list them. And if you can think of another subject that needs classification, please list that also.

 

[Heretic Apostate]

My one and only bump...

 

[CCamfield]

I think you might have more luck with this in the General Discussion forum, as this isn't really something that requires responses from publishers et al. And it would probably reach more people that way.

I also think you need at least one more category. Participating in politics does not require actually running anything. You can be influencing leaders, acting as a courtier, plotting, etc, without necessarily being the person holding the reins of power.