Actual play excerpt: Certamen debate at Grand Tribunal

[Kandahar (Kandahar ex Bonisagus)]

@OriginalMadman

What I want to do is provide some explicit mechanical layers for tracking vote blocs, political capital (including downtime politics), faction behaviors, long-term lobbying, spying campaigns (up to running a spy network), reputation and hermetic prestige, tribunal debates, regional influence, covenant/manorial stewardship, staff & grog loyalties, and background trading activities more like capability and accumulating resources, which can also be spent.

And they said that the last thing this game needs is more rules…

I agree with you and I have the same wants and needs. I’m 120 sessions strong on my current saga and the lack of structure would have killed me if I didn’t adapted.

You may be interested to take a peek into my articles. Even though they are in spanish, auto-translate should get you there, and I recently explained some very cool stuff I’m very proud of.

I'm writing a Storyguide's Book for Ars (Spanish)

A lot of progress has happened since I last updated this thread. First, one article about implementing PbtA’s Fronts into Ars Magica, with examples and one sheet that is semi-automated. Second, two articles (#1, #2) about Factions and their management in Ars Magica, I successfully implement the Mausritter and Worlds Without Number systems into the gameflow, and I even grok out a middle ground, more complex system based on the Mausritter one. I’m particularly proud of the second faction articl…

The last ones are about Progress Clocks for project management, PbtA’s Fronts for saga and adventure planning and running and three different faction systems. If you get around reading it, hit me up if you have any questions!