Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Rocket your D&D 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5E games into space! Alpha Star Magazine Is Launching... Right Now!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grayswandir" data-source="post: 1227889" data-attributes="member: 585">I've got the usual mix: a few traditional monarchies, a few theologies, some places ruled by whatever warlord has the most power, some ruled through other determinations (most powerful wizard, most powerful psion, richest merchant). Or you could do what one high-level elven ranger did in one of my campaigns ...First, take the Leadership feat and assemble yourself a band of loyal followers. This works best if you start spreading hints of discontent against the current king and subvert some of his border guard or soldiers to be your new followers. Next, get an insanely powerful dreagon really, really angry with you. Then, hole up in your peaceable forest kingdom until the dragon tracks you down and begins systematically demolishing the entire nation just to cause you grief. Wait until the king realizes that the dragon is totally unstoppable and decides to evacuate himself, his court, and pretty much his entire population instead of allowing them to be slaughtered - preferably to somewhere very far away, such as another plane, but the next region over will suffice if necessary, so long as it's somewhere they can establish a permanent new kingdom. Be sure to assist the evacuation with your loyal followers, but be sure that you and your followers stay behind to "guard" the minority of the population that refuses to leave their forest homes of old. Then, assemble your adventuring party and dispose of the dragon (not so easy as it sounds - it helps if you have an artifact-level magic sword laying around). Finally, proclaim yourself queen now that there's no one to contest your rule, and begin rebuilding the ruins of the once-great elven nation.</blockquote>

Verification