I have to admit. I don't really do a lot with nobles or nobility in my games. Unless of course, they are a plot device. Either a backdrop ("The King has ordered...") or the big bad ("Count Dracula, I presume.").
Honestly, I really should do more.
Recently I received my PDF of Adventures Great and Glorious from Joseph Bloch's Kickstarter. I have not read it all in detail but so far I like it. Between it and some of the rules found in Adventurer Conqueror King, there is a lot to help me with a good system of kingdom creation and management. Who knows, maybe it will give me some ideas for my upcoming "War of the Witch Queens" game.
The gold standard of this sort of game is naturally Pendragon. A game I adore but never got to play much. Another one that comes to mind is Birthright.
Birthright is an odd one for me. Odd in the sense that I know nearly next to nothing about it. It came out during TSR's dying days. In the Second Ed era I was firmly entrenched in Ravenloft, but by 1997 I was giving up on D&D. I had started to move on to other games already (this was the height of my Mage years) and I was generally very disappointed in D&D by then. I had even sold off large sections of my collection to where I was down to just a few dozen books.
At a Gen Con some years ago I got to play in a Birthright game. It was fun, I played a Goblin archer (fighter), but in this game, goblins were a lot smarter. So more like an angry halfling.
I don't own any Birthright books, which is a crime really. So I am thinking of picking up the core set. From my understanding, it would convert well to 5e.
What are your favorite games or supplements for dealing with PCs becoming nobles and ruling the lands?
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