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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Victim" data-source="post: 3895627" data-attributes="member: 78">How does personal ambition relate to toppling or forming governments?  As a general rule, adventuring confers intrinsic personal power - the power to do something.  Politicing provides institutional power - other people do things for you because of your position.  If the PCs have the ability to overthrow nations in themselves, then they're already outside and above conventional social structures.  Is becoming a ruler a way to fullfill ambitions, or is it a dangerous distraction from the process of improving one's personal abilities?-------------------------------------Moreover, just because a party can agree that thing X is bad - be X a monster or tyrant - doesn't mean they'll all be able to agree on the replacement if they get involved in such matters.</blockquote>