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<blockquote data-quote="HeavenShallBurn" data-source="post: 3598816" data-attributes="member: 39593">My homebrew is aside from a few notable exceptions in specific locations or regions based on the bronze age.&nbsp; So in certain city-states modeled on Mesopotamia there is bueaucracy, a strong monarchy and institutionalized temples. Even here the higher status you are the higher level you are once adulthood is reached because if they weren't powerful their enemies would have killed them and taken their position.&nbsp; In most of the rest of the world settlements are smaller and government in any sense of the term nonexistent.&nbsp; Here rule is through direct power and extends only as far as your own ability to enforce it or use immediate followers to do so, soon as someone more powerful comes along they kill you and take over your position as local petty despot.The players who have been part of my gaming group have done every permutation of insanity imaginable.&nbsp; From in one campaign killing a local petty despot and taking over his village because the character's home town had been raided and their relatives taken as slaves.&nbsp; To instigating a cult for the sole purpose of assasinating a particular royal family of a sky island.&nbsp; To in the most aggregious example two years ago the dwarf character used a portal to the elemental plane of water and a crapload of endless decanters to destroy a town with a mudslide because the local lord stiffed him.&nbsp; Then there was starting a civil war in Gallee.&nbsp; Destroying the replacement body of the Sorcerer-King of Babble just before he really needed it(that was an accident).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="HeavenShallBurn, post: 3598816, member: 39593"] My homebrew is aside from a few notable exceptions in specific locations or regions based on the bronze age. So in certain city-states modeled on Mesopotamia there is bueaucracy, a strong monarchy and institutionalized temples. Even here the higher status you are the higher level you are once adulthood is reached because if they weren't powerful their enemies would have killed them and taken their position. In most of the rest of the world settlements are smaller and government in any sense of the term nonexistent. Here rule is through direct power and extends only as far as your own ability to enforce it or use immediate followers to do so, soon as someone more powerful comes along they kill you and take over your position as local petty despot. The players who have been part of my gaming group have done every permutation of insanity imaginable. From in one campaign killing a local petty despot and taking over his village because the character's home town had been raided and their relatives taken as slaves. To instigating a cult for the sole purpose of assasinating a particular royal family of a sky island. To in the most aggregious example two years ago the dwarf character used a portal to the elemental plane of water and a crapload of endless decanters to destroy a town with a mudslide because the local lord stiffed him. Then there was starting a civil war in Gallee. Destroying the replacement body of the Sorcerer-King of Babble just before he really needed it(that was an accident). [/QUOTE]

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