On 29-Apr-97, TSRRich@aol.com set out across the seas with this message:

- ->Actually, the rule about law holdings and loyalty changes are there to help
- ->out the bad guys. Why should the Gorgon have to rule by popular consent? The
- ->rules give him the ability to have his troops enforce his will throughout
the
- ->land, and the DM has a perfect rules explanation for why the black-clad
- ->soldiers make the unhappy townspeople keep paying their taxes.

Suprisingly the one evil PC in my campaign was the only one who levied
resonable taxes on his people. He did so to keep the people happy while the
suposed good characters burdened their people with severe taxes as soon as
they controlled all the law levels in their kingdoms.
One of my players is regent of Medoere and with his temple holdings and the
severe taxes he has managed to gather together a massive army and is way more
powerful than he should be. So I changed the rules about law holdings and
loyalty changes slightly so that after a few turns of severe taxes they
started rebelling.
I still use the rules as attended for the evil realm, after all the people
there are used to the actions of their regent. For the Gorgon's kingdoms most
of the people under his control are goblins and Orogs and are used to the
harsh rules he places on his followers.
But for realms that are supposedly goodly, and regent who are supposed to act
good toward the people (mainly my players) I have changed them to keep them a
little bit more under control.

- --
Darkstar

e-Mail: hoss@box.net.au
Home Page: http://www.box.net.au/~hoss/index.html
Page updates: http://www.box.net.au/~hoss/update.html

From the Darkness we came
And to the Darkness we must return.