Well, I'm thinking about my next campaign starting out in a Republic. When I say Republic, I don't mean a county's council or something that simple, I'm talking about an entire, New Age, republic with a political parties, campaigns, and races to see who can grab the highest office and most of the senate, all taking place a magical influenced dark-age/renaissance world. The politicians are not especially corrupt, but there is always corruption with power. Overall, its a prosperous nation and it doesn't seem be anywhere near a war. The population is mostly human with dwarves not too far behind, but other races in the minorities. It's important to note, that in the campaign world, Humans are not the most powerful race and, with the exception of this one large republic, are actually pretty unimportant compared the Dwarven Kingdoms and Republics and the huge Elven Empire. The Republic doesn't have a problem with fair governments, even if they are monarchies. The nation itself is allied with such governments, even human feudal states. Mind you, not everyone is happy with empires, kingdoms, and feudal states... thats just the general opinion.
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An important thing to mention that there is no Divination magic at all, with an exception to the level 0 spell-Detect Magic. This means no talking to the dead, no telling if someone is lying, and ect. Charm/manipulation magic is much weaker outside the battlefield, because its easier to detect within a city. This pretty much throws out the possibility of a magic-user manipulating/mastering politics on his spells alone. Another huge change: No Divine Magic or Divine Casters, at all(some spells will be joined into Arcane Magic however). There is no proof of Gods, and religions vary greatly(there is no single pantheon, or even more than two or three religions with such a thing). The only things that could prove there are such beings exist is magic, however some see magic as a science, creating many debates. Finally, speaking of magic, Teleport-type spells take a big hit as well. Not only can you never teleport somewhere you've never been, you have to perform some type of ritual with the location to be able to warp their in the first place. Naturally, since its unknown if anyone has ever performed this ritual in any other kind of plane of existence, let alone visited such a thing, teleporting to other planes has never been heard of. I'll keep cosmology out of this, I think I've spoken too much already.
Directly to the south, across a small ocean that separates two small continents is a Socialist (Hob)Goblin country that is incredibly powerful when it comes to all-forms of military. Naturally, the Republic has a large distaste for socialist country, which is also supported by racial hatred of Goblins. Some want to war with this nation(seeing them as a threat in the future), some want to leave them alone entirely, some want to ally them despite their nature, and some want to convert them into a republic. A very important detail is that his Socialist Hobgobln nation is able to hold back and even defeat hordes and hordes of Goblinoids and other types of Barbarians(though not all evil, simply ambitious), which hardly endanger the republic but would completely demolish their Human allies west of the wildlands, a group of weaker feudal states. While the feudal states are known for this powerful combat skills and their ability to survive the hordes thus far, there is no way that they would stand a chance against the entirety of such a force. The Elven Empire, on the other side of the human states show no interest in helping, as they are able to completely protect themselves from the hordes if needed. The Dwarves, who wouldn't mind helping, are on the other continent and are too far to care. This all makes the relationship with the socialist nation complex.
Another important global event, to the northwest of the Republic, is a small nation ran by "vampiric"(I use this term loosely) race of people, who also suffer from racism of Dwarves and Humans, that is currently weeks or months away from an all-out civil war of three factions: Theocracy, Democracy, and Monarchy(current [corrupted] government). It would be in the Republic nation's best interest that the nation become a democracy. The worst case scenario would be the Theocracy, its headed by religious fanatics that seek to destroy all who oppose the greatness of this race(as their one and only prophet has declared years ago). Getting directly involved in the war would be horrible idea, so the use of secret agents has become common place.
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Organizations, everything I listed in the title of the thread, ect ect. Let's make a fun thread. You can make something up based on what I said here, or you can tell what you have done in the passed in similar settings.
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An important thing to mention that there is no Divination magic at all, with an exception to the level 0 spell-Detect Magic. This means no talking to the dead, no telling if someone is lying, and ect. Charm/manipulation magic is much weaker outside the battlefield, because its easier to detect within a city. This pretty much throws out the possibility of a magic-user manipulating/mastering politics on his spells alone. Another huge change: No Divine Magic or Divine Casters, at all(some spells will be joined into Arcane Magic however). There is no proof of Gods, and religions vary greatly(there is no single pantheon, or even more than two or three religions with such a thing). The only things that could prove there are such beings exist is magic, however some see magic as a science, creating many debates. Finally, speaking of magic, Teleport-type spells take a big hit as well. Not only can you never teleport somewhere you've never been, you have to perform some type of ritual with the location to be able to warp their in the first place. Naturally, since its unknown if anyone has ever performed this ritual in any other kind of plane of existence, let alone visited such a thing, teleporting to other planes has never been heard of. I'll keep cosmology out of this, I think I've spoken too much already.
Directly to the south, across a small ocean that separates two small continents is a Socialist (Hob)Goblin country that is incredibly powerful when it comes to all-forms of military. Naturally, the Republic has a large distaste for socialist country, which is also supported by racial hatred of Goblins. Some want to war with this nation(seeing them as a threat in the future), some want to leave them alone entirely, some want to ally them despite their nature, and some want to convert them into a republic. A very important detail is that his Socialist Hobgobln nation is able to hold back and even defeat hordes and hordes of Goblinoids and other types of Barbarians(though not all evil, simply ambitious), which hardly endanger the republic but would completely demolish their Human allies west of the wildlands, a group of weaker feudal states. While the feudal states are known for this powerful combat skills and their ability to survive the hordes thus far, there is no way that they would stand a chance against the entirety of such a force. The Elven Empire, on the other side of the human states show no interest in helping, as they are able to completely protect themselves from the hordes if needed. The Dwarves, who wouldn't mind helping, are on the other continent and are too far to care. This all makes the relationship with the socialist nation complex.
Another important global event, to the northwest of the Republic, is a small nation ran by "vampiric"(I use this term loosely) race of people, who also suffer from racism of Dwarves and Humans, that is currently weeks or months away from an all-out civil war of three factions: Theocracy, Democracy, and Monarchy(current [corrupted] government). It would be in the Republic nation's best interest that the nation become a democracy. The worst case scenario would be the Theocracy, its headed by religious fanatics that seek to destroy all who oppose the greatness of this race(as their one and only prophet has declared years ago). Getting directly involved in the war would be horrible idea, so the use of secret agents has become common place.
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Organizations, everything I listed in the title of the thread, ect ect. Let's make a fun thread. You can make something up based on what I said here, or you can tell what you have done in the passed in similar settings.
