Spinning off of this thread (http://www.therpgsite.com/showthread.php?t=25609), I thought I'd make a list of notable products with significant (not just a paragraph or two) rules for settlement/domain creation. Feel free to add to it (I'll edit the list as we go), and give your thoughts on any/all products you've had experience with:
Adventure Conqueror King System (http://www.autarch.co/)
An Echo, Resounding (http://www.sinenomine-pub.com/?p=217)
A Magical Medieval Society: Western Europe (http://www.xrpshop.citymax.com/catalog/item/3906392/6232094.htm)
Birthright Campaign Setting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthright_(campaign_setting))
Book Of The River Nations: Complete Player's Reference for Kingdom Building (Pathfinder) (http://paizo.com/products/btpy8kgr)
Dark Dungeons (http://www.gratisgames.webspace.virginmedia.com/darkdungeons.html)
Dungeons & Dragon Companion Set (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_Companion_Set)/Rules Cyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_Rules_Cyclopedia)
Fields of Blood d20 (http://www.rpgnow.com/product/691/Fields-of-Blood%3A-The-Book-of-War?it=1&filters=0_0_0_10097)
First Fantasy Campaign (Judges Guild) (http://www.acaeum.com/jg/Item0037.html)
HarnManor (http://www.columbiagames.com/cgi-bin/query/harn/cfg/single.cfg?product_id=4751)
Pendragon (including Book of the Manor) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendragon_(role-playing_game))
Rolemaster Castles & Ruins (http://www.amazon.com/Castles-Ruins-Rolemaster-Standard-System/dp/1558062777)
RuneQuest: Empires (http://www.amazon.com/RuneQuest-Empires-Lawrence-Whitaker/dp/1906103836)
Shadow, Sword & Spell: Expert (http://rogue-games.net/SSS/SSS/expert.html)
A Magical Medieval Society: Western Europe (http://www.xrpshop.citymax.com/catalog/item/3906392/6232094.htm)
Shadow, Sword & Spell: Expert (http://rogue-games.net/SSS/SSS/expert.html)
And when I finish it, Shadow, Sword & Spell: Companion.
Richard
Thanks for the list; I like to do campaigns involving settlements and domains.
I need to find a system that does not make my brain bleed like Birthright did.
I love the setting in Birthright, but the domain rules were a bit too cumbersome for me.
Quote from: Bill;626319Thanks for the list; I like to do campaigns involving settlements and domains.
I need to find a system that does not make my brain bleed like Birthright did.
I love the setting in Birthright, but the domain rules were a bit too cumbersome for me.
That's pretty common among domain management systems.
Thanks for the additions so far!
Gamma World d20 (http://www.rpggeek.com/rpg/265/gamma-world-d20-6th-edition) -- classic (now) "community as character" rules. Covers creation and development.
Has the WFRP 2e Border Princes book been mentioned yet?
And of course, the Rules Cyclopedia D&D book.
RPGPundit
Covenants for Ars Magica.
There were 3 of them for d20 that I owned.
Fields of Blood, already mentioned.
Empire from AEG
Book of Strongholds & Dynasties from Mongoose.
I'll be darned if I can remember much about any of them, except I got rid of the last two and eventually quit trying to use Fields of Blood because it was too confusing.
Birthright is probably the most comprehensible, easy to use one. The trouble is that they are sort of BR specific in a lot of cases, like how the PCs have a mystical connection to the land, how the map is abstract, rather than hex based, combat is card based, and so on.
Chivalry & Sorcery and The C&S Companion