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#1 jdkjpels Apr 19, 2015 17:04:47	So I'm Dmingg a group and one of my players managed to become the lord of a small town, which I have with a small militia and a small keep We're just trying to figure out how to manage all the economic bits such as taxation, income, setting up a castellan and civilian council and how much it costs to keep the town running. Any Ideas?
#2 ankiyavon Apr 19, 2015 22:42:36	I personally use the Adventurer Conquerer King System for this. It's an OGL game, so you can simply drop its rules directly into 5E and have no real problems.  You can get a pdf of it on drivethrurpg for ten bucks.   Other options that I've used are the Book of the River Kingdoms (Pathfinder's Kingmaker adventure path standalone book), Ultimate Campaign (Pathfinder), Stronghold Builder's Guidebook (D&D 3.X), and Birthright Campaign Setting (AD&D 2E) if you have access to any of them.  If you don't, ACKS is in my opinion the best, and is also the cheapest and easiest to get a copy of.
#3 cowleymen Apr 19, 2015 23:15:19	Figure out some good questions that come up in governing land, and Roll some d100s.  high is always good   How well did crops grow- 36, damn it was a tough season   how often did travlers and traders come through- 44, all the normal people still dropped by, but it was tough to trade with little food   was there any sickness?- 85, damn, nothing out of the normal, and certinally no plauges or deaths to speak of because of it   was there any attacks from  bandits, ravenous humanoids (orcs, goblinoids, gnolls) 38- one good thing about lack of food, no monsters to attract   could people pay taxes- 71- with such lean crops and little trading, taxes where relieved quickly, and most major buisnesses paid on time in full.   So a tight year/what ever time frame you want, but no serious problems, besides a smaller tax stream.
#4 Ralif_Redhammer Apr 20, 2015 7:19:03	Dragon #145 had a bunch of rules and advice for PCs running their own castle or kingdom, and could probably be easily adapted to ruling over a small town.   Also, the old Castle Guide had similar rules and whatnot.
#5 BRJN Apr 20, 2015 15:30:12	3e Power of Faerun also has rules you may want to adapt.  Includes army, merchant baron, and frontier clearing.
#6 DanyBallon Apr 20, 2015 17:28:26	Pathfinder kingdom building rules are available for free on their reference documents (PRD)   http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/ultimateCampaign/kingdomsAndWar.html