Running Kingdom Rules At The Table

[osmosis1671]

I am having a hard time envisoning how I might run the kingdom turns in a session for an in-person game. I am curious how you run the kingdom minigame at your table.

1. Are all players collaborating to run the kingdom or do one or two players run everything?

2. Do you run the kingdom turns during a session or between sessions (discord?)?

3. If you run them during a session, do you use any tools? Maybe Tomeric's sheet? A custom character sheet in your VTT?

I find turns take an hour or so as I run my simulation, mostly on figuring out what leadership activities I want to do. I am worried this will be much worse and frustrating with four or five people 'contributing'.

My goal is that a turn would take no more than 30-45 min, be collaborative, and be a fun change of pace for the players.

[osmosis1671]

osmosis1671 wrote:

If you run them during a session, do you use any tools?

My best idea so far is to turn it into a bit of a trading card game. Each activity would go on a card and we would have a mat with outlines on where the cards should be placed and bins in the middle for resource tokens (qucik sketch: https://imgur.com/GOWiogM). Upkeep and Activity cards would stay on the table, maybe getting flipped to indicate if it had been played the previous round. Each player would get a deck of possible leadership activities (they can each use once), and the warden would get a stack of region cards and civic cards. The cards could be color coded to indicate their phase and perhaps their main role in the leadership phase (buffs, gain RP, clear unrest, commodities).

Is this just making it had, or might it make it easier for the group to work together and learn the process?

[VanceMadrox]

I highly recommend doing the kingdom building turns via email or discord outside of face to face sessions,

I'm not planning on doing more than a few turns in person.