Running my first nation building campaign

[kogwar]

OK so my group through what started as a joke is now working to make a nation out of some homesteads in he eastern terrritory so as a gm to other more experienced gms what should i watch out from what so i stay clear of, so to some it up post any adivce/expiences you have with these kinds of campaigns.

[Killer Cyborg]

OK so my group through what started as a joke is now working to make a nation out of some homesteads in he eastern terrritory so as a gm to other more experienced gms what should i watch out from what so i stay clear of, so to some it up post any adivce/expiences you have with these kinds of campaigns.

Never really done that kind of thing, although I've thought of it.

I'll be happy to give my input on any specific questions or problems that you encounter, though.

Good luck!

[Razzinold]

rat_bastard had a pretty good thread going about making an entire city, you should give that a read.

Subject: Building a City

[flatline]

The outcome of every decision will be determined by logistics.

I played something similar where the characters started a school. We traded goods and services with a nearby village for the food that we couldn't grow ourselves and as the school population grew, we ended up being the center of a village significant enough that we actually needed to plan for defence and for municipal services and government, all of which, of course, needed to be paid for.

Funding was the tricky part, of course. The school started out funded by the characters, but as those funds ran out, we needed ways to make the school sustain itself. We also had to play politics enough to make certain that none of the nearby powers would attempt to annex us (once you have income, suddenly everyone thinks they're entitled to tax you).

It was a lot of work, took a lot of time, but was a lot of fun.

--flatline

[Chronicle]

Logistics, events, competition, uinity, group mechanics crashing alien space ships (happens alot these days) and doom sayers

[kogwar]

Ive been trying to decide weither to have the trade guild contact them what are the pros and cons to that.

[flatline]

Ive been trying to decide weither to have the trade guild contact them what are the pros and cons to that.

It could end up being a lot of work depending on how fleshed out you want the trade guild to be.

For every power that you introduce, you should do the following:
1. generate the NPCs that will be the face of that power to the players
2. develop the history of that power so that you have a context for understanding who they are, what they want, and how they function
3. decide what their current agenda is
4. decide what resources are available to the power and how those resources are currently committed.

Deciding all this ahead of time will allow you to present the power consistently and "in character". #4 is of particular importance because not only does this provide you with the most hooks for the players to interact with the power, but it also sets the bar for how easy it is for the power to redeploy their forces in order to react to the players' actions.

--flatline

[kogwar]

Ive been trying to decide weither to have the trade guild contact them what are the pros and cons to that.

It could end up being a lot of work depending on how fleshed out you want the trade guild to be.

For every power that you introduce, you should do the following:
1. generate the NPCs that will be the face of that power to the players
2. develop the history of that power so that you have a context for understanding who they are, what they want, and how they function
3. decide what their current agenda is
4. decide what resources are available to the power and how those resources are currently committed.

Deciding all this ahead of time will allow you to present the power consistently and "in character". #4 is of particular importance because not only does this provide you with the most hooks for the players to interact with the power, but it also sets the bar for how easy it is for the power to redeploy their forces in order to react to the players' actions.

--flatline

Very helpful but i mean the actual trade guild for the eastern territory