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What Do Your Fantasy Societies in D&D Get For Their Taxes and Tithes?
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<blockquote data-quote="Chrisling" data-source="post: 395029" data-attributes="member: 6816"><p>Guiliano della Rovere was also known as Pope Julius II. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Machiavelli's experience with war was all textbook, too. I can't seem to recall a place or time when he actually lead troops in battle, or was himself in battle -- he did a fair bit of observation, tho'. I'm sticking with Courtier . . . tho' if magic was available, he certain could have been a wizard, too. He was certainly brilliant enough for it.</p><p></p><p>With Cesare Borgia, I think I'd stick to a pretty fair distribution of fighter (and then duellist) and courtier levels -- bearing in mind, too, he certainly employed rogues and assassins (Micholotto leaps to mind). I don't think he would have studied magic, even if it was available; he rejected a church career specifically to be a warrior. Study bored him.</p><p></p><p>Dr. Strangemonkey definitely hit Ludivico Sforza on the head. I have trouble seeing him as being personally interested in magic, too. He didn't have the temper for it.</p><p></p><p>Thinking about it . . . one of the cultural ramifications of magic could be heavy involvement in it by women. I hope this doesn't start a flame war, but it's possible to see a society with the men being warriors and the women being wizards as being quite effective -- being a far better use of human resources than actually happened in places like the Renaissance. It could even be a fun game to run, since Renaissance Italy is so incredible interesting anyway. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chrisling, post: 395029, member: 6816"] Guiliano della Rovere was also known as Pope Julius II. :) Machiavelli's experience with war was all textbook, too. I can't seem to recall a place or time when he actually lead troops in battle, or was himself in battle -- he did a fair bit of observation, tho'. I'm sticking with Courtier . . . tho' if magic was available, he certain could have been a wizard, too. He was certainly brilliant enough for it. With Cesare Borgia, I think I'd stick to a pretty fair distribution of fighter (and then duellist) and courtier levels -- bearing in mind, too, he certainly employed rogues and assassins (Micholotto leaps to mind). I don't think he would have studied magic, even if it was available; he rejected a church career specifically to be a warrior. Study bored him. Dr. Strangemonkey definitely hit Ludivico Sforza on the head. I have trouble seeing him as being personally interested in magic, too. He didn't have the temper for it. Thinking about it . . . one of the cultural ramifications of magic could be heavy involvement in it by women. I hope this doesn't start a flame war, but it's possible to see a society with the men being warriors and the women being wizards as being quite effective -- being a far better use of human resources than actually happened in places like the Renaissance. It could even be a fun game to run, since Renaissance Italy is so incredible interesting anyway. :) [/QUOTE]
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