Richard Cypher wrote:Mr. Cromwell wrote:Richard Cypher wrote:
You do not need to be an uber warrior to run a town. Greenbriar was run by Dusty, and now by Rumil. I can pwn them with my weakest fighter easily. Still they are the rulers and no one has taken them over. Maybe it is because they are nice unlike certain other players. A little bit of niceness can go a long way to avoid you getting pwned
I think that the "necessity" for a warrior leader in Trollsbane stems from the fact that some villain is trying to take it over ever other week. Something which seldom is the case in Greenbriar or in any other town (except for Silverbrand
) for that matter I think. If Greenbriar was under such constant assault, I'm rather confident that eventually their rulers would arm themselves as well.
It also seems (from my limited point of view) that the rulers of Trollsbane are usurpers of somekind by default. Hence they attract the unwanted attention of all the "fight the power anarchist" -types as soon as they try to do.. well anything at all. This translates directly into need for some serious defense abilities.
When the next horde of undead demon dragons appear, why not have them infest Tol Vanima, Greenbriar or Varshikar in order to spread the damage around?
Do you want to know why the ruler of Greenbriar would not have to arm himself? Because he is nice and has friends. Many people have pledged to protect him with their lives because they are fighters and he is not. And by the way the leaders of Varshikar are pretty damn good fighters...well Maggie is and Jeremy is a mage. Also, for Tol Vanima the dragons would not attack there. You need to think more about different forms of storyline rather than just pointing fingers. And the reason why a lot happens to Trolls Bane is because a lot of people go there. Why send something to happen to silverbrand if only dwarves will know about it. Or send something to Zzyathis when only like 6 people inhabit it. See the logic in that?
Not really, unless you think that everything should happen with a simple snap of fingers. The enemy can occupy Zzyathis/Silverbrand/Tol Vanima/whatever today and we can organise a quest to re-take it tomorrow or the day after or next week. I'm of course just making assumptions concerning the mindset of your average illarion player, but I'm betting that such event would surely mean that there were significantly more than 6 people attending.
Besides, you didn't really comment on the usurper part at all. You see, when you are ruler of a player made establishment + community, it gives you a lot more room to move around and do your thing than in a community where you have no "legal" right to rule. The "central" town position where you can't really control the inflow/outflow of people nearly as efficiently and where plenty of scumbag troublemaker characters hang around makes this even harder.
While the Rulership of other lands being friendly might make a small diffrence but the main thing is that:
1.) While grabbing the power, you will certainly piss of someone or someone who you have pissed off before decides to take revenge. That's unavoidable.
2.) You will be opposed just for the sake of opposing something. If the ruler does anything, he will be opposed because of that. If he doesnt do anything, you can be damned sure that it will be complained about too.
3.) When you have no "legal" right to rule, it's possible that someone else has the same idea as you -> danger of coup
4.) The decisions made in the little hamlets are rather insignificant/local for most part.
5.) Only directly involved people actually give a damn about what goes on daily in the smaller playermade establishments. No huge emotions here.
6.) As there is no efficient way for the ruler to extract revenue (see 2.) for the defense / upkeep of the town, chances are that he "is in the trenches" so to speak when the next demon horde attacks.
EDIT: Minor corrections and spelling.
EDIT2: More corrections.
