Hi there!
In the campaing I'm GMing, one of the players managed to become a Lord Regent in Starks' stead, gaining dominion over the North. Being currently at war with other Kingdoms, I struggle to come up with ideas of issues or drama not war-related for him to deal with.
A PC without a care in the world is much easier to engage, so much to prove and to gain.
A PC with the power over an entire kingdom... feels like an NPC. Also eing at war, sometimes it feels like playing with minis, where the single character doesn't really matter.
On a side note, how do you deal with large battles? I'm not talking about small skirmishes but full on Army vs Army (numbers in the thousands). There is too much math involved in dealing with a lot of units.
I raised the number of soldiers composing the unit itself from 100 to 2/3000, but we're still talking about 50000 soldiers... too much.
Lately I tried to treat them more as a Skills challenge rather then proper fights, in order to smooth the process but it's quite crippling towards the player how has invested xp in War, Strategy, Tactics and Command. It doesn't help that the party is split and a long fight becomes tedius for the Players not involved.
Thank you in advance.
In the campaing I'm GMing, one of the players managed to become a Lord Regent in Starks' stead, gaining dominion over the North. Being currently at war with other Kingdoms, I struggle to come up with ideas of issues or drama not war-related for him to deal with.
A PC without a care in the world is much easier to engage, so much to prove and to gain.
A PC with the power over an entire kingdom... feels like an NPC. Also eing at war, sometimes it feels like playing with minis, where the single character doesn't really matter.
On a side note, how do you deal with large battles? I'm not talking about small skirmishes but full on Army vs Army (numbers in the thousands). There is too much math involved in dealing with a lot of units.
I raised the number of soldiers composing the unit itself from 100 to 2/3000, but we're still talking about 50000 soldiers... too much.
Lately I tried to treat them more as a Skills challenge rather then proper fights, in order to smooth the process but it's quite crippling towards the player how has invested xp in War, Strategy, Tactics and Command. It doesn't help that the party is split and a long fight becomes tedius for the Players not involved.
Thank you in advance.
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