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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 395513" data-attributes="member: 6533">VodacceSwashbuckling Adventures developed a Renaissance version of Italy that works exactly along the lines you are describing.The men are all courtiers/duelists and the noble women are all sorcerors who are deliberately kept illiterate so they won't take over the society.When upper-class men need thinking companionship they visit with a class of highly-educated non-noble non-magical courtesans.Their version of a sorceror is a little low powered, or should I say weirdly powered, but it is much as you describe.Great minds....Machiavelli created a regiment of Florentine militia while he still occupied political office, thus the levels of fighter.  I suppose you could give him ranks in profession: commander or profession: strategist and that would work just as well.Ah Julius II, one of my favorite Popes, hmmm....A lot like Sforza, replace noble with that non-magical cleric?   I don't think I could argue that he was a single classed Paladin, but I'd like to.  With high levels of diplomacy.  That man could cobble together an alliance.</blockquote>