A bit from the archives while I'm partying (read: probably sleeping) at GenCon. One of my associates (the guy who ran the Deadlands game, actually) started a D&D game. As of this writing, it died after two sessions. (A common fate, I find.) Although, I think he plans to resurrect it. Eventually.
Anyway, the game was set as three human kingdoms and two demihuman kingdoms (the gnomes used to have a kingdom, but it was destroyed during the war) are reunifying after a brutal twenty-four-year war against the monstrous humanoids. As part of the preparation, he had each player write a specific kingdom in the world. Since I put a lot of work into it — it's got history, geography, even sidebars! — I share it with you.
I was given the kingdom of Trias, and no guidelines to flesh it out. After brainstorming, I came to Papal States meets Warring States, with the end of the Han dynasty thrown in for flavor (I had just seen the abridged version of Red Cliff — it's so rad I got the five-hour unabridged version, although I have not yet carved out time to watch it — and had magnificent bastard warlords on the brain).
Without further ado:
The Kingdom of Trias
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