Howdy yall, I'm currently running King Maker in a PBP format, and I've gotten myself into a corner concerning the governing part of kingdom making.
My friend and I who were playing the campaign opted for a Roman style senate + forum model ~ where instead of a king and queen, we would have two consuls comprising of elected citizens.
Problem is, how would we in terms of story create this event? Any suggestions or feedback would be appreciated.
"Bob's your parent's sibling."
Awesome.
*kills Aazens joke* Technically the Romans were a republic, not a democracy.
Yeah, but didnt they end up as a democracy which ended up tanking the whole system due to corruption?
Nah, as far as I was taught their system remained a republic up until Octavian became their first emperor, but leading up to this it had already experienced a great deal of unwieldiness. It had become something of a government by rubber-stamp fraught with political assassinations and mob violence committed by the elect against their more unpopular contemporaries.
As far as I know, they never actually became a democracy. Now Greece, they loved their democracies, hell Athens is much lauded and remembered for being something of a pure democracy...the only caveat being that voting privileges were limited to Athenian citizens which came with a metric boatload of limitations like for example, you had to be properly Athenian born of Athenian parents and you had to be male.