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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Phlebas" data-source="post: 3895289" data-attributes="member: 23810">In an earlier thread we ended up talking about high level PC's taking over castles / cities / kingdoms and then getting very bored with the trivia of management, which they'd normally be pretty bad at (also explaining why grand viziers end up running everything) and unless you have players who want to start empire building there's a lot of work to do with little obvious reward. (i know - i'd love for players to take an interest in politics but unless you tell them the guys in red hats are the baddies and safe to kill they're not interested)You could always explain it away in game as fighting the world destroying threats rather than the kingdom ones (after all, whats a few oppressed peasants compared with the destruction of the entire world?)the other perspective could be that when the players are that powerful / well known there's probably a lot of people with vested interests in stopping them taking over the kingdom / empire. The PC's might be mega powerful but the massed weight of the aristocracy / guilds / masses could easily be motivated by a few 'concerned' individuals to block the party's / individuals route to power. So unless the PC actively sought power and was willing to pay the price (tame bards etc) it wouldn't happen by default.After all, in fantasy the champion of the kingdom is the most powerful, but he still has to swear fealty to the true king.....</blockquote>

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