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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BSF" data-source="post: 1129021" data-attributes="member: 13098">OK, if you are looking for a sourcebook on all the ways that magic will alter the fabric of society, this isn't quite for you.  For me, it provided a much more detailed look on how a medieval society was structured.  Given that I live in the Southwest United States (New Mexico, we have lots of land and not many people), this book showed me how a feudal structure works.  We are much more ranching country out here and I am much more familiar with the concept that all the farmers/ranchers have their own fields, on their own fenced in land.  I have always tended to just extend that concept out to serfs with the assumption that they don't own their land.  It doesn't quite work like that.That is just one example of what I found the book useful for.  The coverage of magic is much more on the integration side.  How magic can be introduced without, necessarily, tearing the society down.  I also have ideas on how I can better integrate curch vs state politics, how I can bring in a presence fro Druids and why smart Lords will work with them rather than against them, how I can use land and title as a reward for characters and still have it be more than just flavor or a hassle, all sorts of things.In fact, my next campaign is starting off around a City-State.  The city-state itself dows to no other leige, but has an entire feudal structure around it.  I want the characters to start off on the lower end of that chain and, hopefully, move their way up through their adventuring career.  In all, I think it is a great book.  But, it might not provide you with what you are looking for.</blockquote>

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