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It annoys me. All the characters ever seem to want to do is become filthy rich, start their own buisinesses, armies, and organizations, and take the leadership feat. And then i have to think up what their first level henchmen are doing while they battle war trolls. I have one player who has this marvelous wizard/fighter/spellsword/archmage mix at epic levels and never adventures with him because he's too busy running his organization and ruling his country. I've got another player who's ranger/fighter insist that he lead a mercenary company, and the followers do nothing but make them stick out like a sore thumb. I've thought about banning the leadership feat altogether, but if i do, then the characters will get upset, and the high seas campain i'm creating won;t work, because they'll all insist on having a crew of loyal followers. Anyone else got these kinds of problems? What can i do?

I have been working on multiple campains for quite some time, but none of them suit what i need for the players and the game. I have little flashes of brilliant idea, but when i try to put them into a campain together, they get cheesy, and when I try to base the campain off the ideas, the they end up being really shallow campains. I would make a general, all around campain, but that would lack the vital flavor. I seek, perhaps, a campain of swashbuckling adventure, of cold frigid seas and heros upon the icy seas. Yet i also seek intrigue and politics. Yet I also seek vast ancient empires. I am trying to put them together, but i need more brain power, because i sapped all of mine out of my head working on a campain that took a year to build up to a quarter of the war, and i just had to ditch the idea because it wasn;t working out. I have most of the D&D sourcebooks, including Ghostwalk, Book of Vile Darkness, Book of Exalted Deeds, Libris Mortis, Lords of Madness, and Draconomicon, along with a whole lot of others, but i can;t quite put them all together as one coherent whole. I need more brainpower. Shoot me ideas. Please. I implore. I am a Dungeon Master in need.