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Played this module way back when. It was the first time that I had a character get a kingdom and their Fanatical Followers. It was a real thrill and a major task! We spent many hours creating our Fanatical Followers, creating what would become our armies, eventually, figuring out our resources, population and everything else that comes with having a kingdom. My 2 characters were going broke paying for everything. Contrary to popular belief, not all high level characters are rich. So we had to go Dragon Hunting in order to raise enough cash to keep us going.

Seems like a way to keep from splitting the party is to have alternative titles and responsibilities, depending on party comp and who wants to be the one with the actual responsibility for the territory. The feudal hierarchy that emerged in western Europe was heavily influenced by the Western Orthodox (later Catholic) church, and the two systems worked in parallel. So you could have the warrior or skillmonkey be the landed noble, while the cleric is the ecclesiastical equivalent for their particular church or temple, and the mage is given a nice tower and library and please burninate our enemies if they come calling otherwise we'll leave you alone. Or, shake it up, and give the cleric title, and the fighter-type becomes something akin to the Japanese Shogun, being the guy in charge of war.

Greatest campaign setting as a module ever. Also very tough to run well and use with multiple pcs

Thank you for this video! What would be the best modules to introduce a GM to high level play with all the information he needs to wrap his head around that kind of adventure? Keep up the great work!

Will you consider doing a video on how to construct a sandbox module like Warlords or Isle of Dread? they are a dying breed these days even among OSR Releases

I wonder how something like this would be received as a simi retirment of the characters with moves being made over text or some such with individual players and meeting in person only rarely for miniature War Games as a new group of Adventurers begins play, possibly in the same area at the same time?

Gonna have to check this module out, seems to be a good source of mechanics for improving 5e or coming up with my own system to run more than an arcade hack and slash game.

Nice review. Good job.

Is there somethign similar, where players would have to take a kingdom to pieces?

2:03 Oh god, now I feel sad. I'm laughing, but that hurts.

I can certainly see the appeal even as a newish player the ability to become a power player does sound fun, definitely need to change the slit the players up part and figure out how to integrate all classes into possible factions for the domain and remove the more boring parts of logistics and adding lots of possible events from beneficial to hazardous to solve plus you can do entire parts about what to build it out of, with transmutation you could build a castle out of osmium like a total mad Wizard.

I loved it. LOL

OG Kingmaker?

Thank you

Do I spy stills from Henry V?! NIIIIICCCCE

Ice Comanches … 😂

It would be nice to rewrite the module to fit the later continuity. But I imagine it works as a generic mdule that can be slipped into a hame brew campain.

Why is every transition the union jack

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