Why would you use city-states and not kingdoms and empires?
Why would you use city-states and not kingdoms and empires?
Daniel Nguyen
Tyler Thompson
......because their self contained......
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Juan Taylor
City-states make sense in areas with plenty of potentiam (sea) trade. They need an steady source of income.
Thomas Flores
i always use the three together, why limit oneself ?
Ryder Parker
Countries and kingdoms haven't been invented yet.
We're in ancient mesopotamia, the cradle of mankind.
The closest you get is one city state imposing tribute on another, or an alliance.
Sebastian Bell
Feudal and imperial systems of heirarchal national and societal governance and organisation are my magical realm
Aiden Turner
Because variety is fun?
Hunter Phillips
>Their
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>/Threads his own post
You might have a point but you're so new it makes me sick.
Thomas Ross
Because my game is set in late-medieval central Italy.
Oliver Ward
Reasons...
1. City states are easier to write if you either do not know how feudalism works or do not care to say how feudalism works in your campaign.
2. City states have a lower bar problems they can't fix themselves. Thus a lower bar for PC's to save the local area.
3. City states are normally weaker then kingdoms thus can be threatened by them.
Caleb Smith
I feel they are good to highlight the feel of different eras- classical swords and sandals, and enlightement era political playing pieces.
Hunter Garcia
Because now the PCs can forge them into an empire.
Camden Clark
U mad
Angel Martin
Got any hierarchy trees that I can fap to?
Josiah Taylor
William Ramirez
Gotta keep that blood pure...
Charles Williams
i just think they're neat
Gavin Gutierrez
Look up Charles II of Spain
Jackson Williams
They're the most likely result in an area where monsters and the like are common. A centralized government of any sort above the size of a major city would be next to impossible when orcs and the like are a common thing.
Evan Carter
To make the politics of the setting more complex, and give the PCs the ability to ditch one city for another if something goes wrong.
Jack Rodriguez
>Why would you use city-states and not kingdoms and empires?
Because the world suffers periodic cataclysms that throw the civilized people to the brink of extinction, and we're at one of those points where a scattered array of city-states is the only thing that stands between us and extinction, but the ruins of the great age before are full of lost treasures just waiting to be found.
PDF related.
Hudson Morris
Some god is being an asshole and funding every two bit rebellion with powerful ghost rebels and demons of freedom
Noah Hernandez
The Romans handled it pretty well all things considered