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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 7979853" data-attributes="member: 5948">Hah, fair!  But I think there IS still interesting scope for an intrigue-heavy or politics-heavy campaign in a setting with powerful barons, a king constrained by convention and lack of ability to compel, codified responsibilities when it comes to raising military levies, difficult succession issues etc.  Players who like sandboxes could have a ball.  Mind you, succession issues tended to play out historically over spans of time vastly greater than the average campaign covers in-world, but hey, this is fantasy, if it's not fun, tweak it.Though of course, historically the rules of European feudalism were underpinned by a monolithic church as a cultural unifying factor and highest moral authority[1] which is very much not the case in most D&D fantasy worlds.[1] subject to the usual sectarianism/schisms/puppet popes/internal corruption/doctrinal disputes etc that religions are prone to have when you don't have the option of simply spooling up a Commune spell and asking your god what the right answer is...</blockquote>