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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5785750" data-attributes="member: 58197">I'll be honest: I never actually had a character with followers. The only character who ever got to a high enough level to qualify was a 2E mage, and by the time I got my tower the campaign was more or less over. But the idea of followers and strongholds was a huge draw for me; that my character would not be forever a rootless adventurer, and could one day, if she survived, carve out a realm of her own.One might then ask why we need rules for this. People at Wizards have mentioned their market research indicates most campaigns never get beyond the low- to mid-levels; what's the point of adding a whole new subsystem for followers and strongholds which most people won't ever use? Why not just imagine that my character will one day become "queen by her own hand?"But it makes a difference to have rules for it. Without rules for dominions, it takes an extraordinary and committed DM to step outside the dungeon-crawling idiom of the low levels and create essentially a whole new game to encompass this larger realm. So I can imagine what I like, but I know deep down that if the campaign ever actually does reach those levels, it'll just be more of the same. Conversely, if there are rules for followers and strongholds, I can look forward to using them even if I never reach that point.And, y'know, "most campaigns" is not "all campaigns."</blockquote>