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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ubiaratne the weird" data-source="post: 2802960" data-attributes="member: 39399"><p>I was wondering why a lot of dms are obsessed with their nobles or whatever  having these gigantic wars with hundreds of people in them. If the world you run is magic rich, rich in feuds and fighting, and your nobles are rich, Why dont they just spend all their money on magicking up one or two people until they are really really powerful, or training a sick nasty warrior retainer and having that one person just decimate the opponents hundreds of soldiers in minutes? I mean, with all the templates and suchlike you have, eventually one of these nobles is going to get the bright idea of hiring on a couple of quarter dragon-quarter beholder-quarter medusa-quarter giantoids and sicking them on their enemies as a sort of strike squad of the gods. I would think that in a world with all of these great monsters and magicks the nobles would just have a few extremely powerful monster-knights duking it out somewhere while the commoners are happily doing their work, not having to get up every hour or so to go and get slaughtered by a couple of wizards with fireball and lightning bolt. Seriously, one of these ungodly smart npcs is going to figure out that he can FRIGGIN DESTROY A WHOLE FRIGGIN ARMY WITH A FRIGGIN SQUADRON OF GODS DAMNED OGRE MAGES instead of having to rouse thousands of commoners for battle. In the campaigns i run, the nobles have one or two of these amazing champions, paying them in loot and privledges for their services, and occasionally sending them out to kill one another. You still haved the great peasent revolting scheme, since the peasents are usually tired of being rode roughshod by the champions, and you dont have to worry about heirs and such when the noble is killed. The champion, being the most powerful person in the region anyway, just takes their place and hires a slightly more powerful champion so he can live the life of luxury. As to why all of these powerful champions are obeying lords like this, five words: mark of justice when young. what think? it worked well in my world.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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