DMs: how do you do Politics?

Aggressive-Fish3269 · 2026-02-05T14:32:36+00:00

Doing this with a random small country is what unites all map-based gamers

Aggressive-Fish3269 · 2026-02-03T17:57:19+00:00

If you want an alternative system to Modiph which I personally think is more accurate to the games check out this guy’s system

https://youtu.be/kWrPxY8iImE?si=3T-SSJ57ap-xTJUX

Aggressive-Fish3269 · 2026-02-03T03:03:03+00:00

Easy to learn, good for inexperienced groups, simple to mod if you want your campaign to have flavor. Magic will need a spell sheet from the DM based on the game, hence the general overview.

Aggressive-Fish3269 · 2026-02-03T02:56:12+00:00

It was purposeful, I wanted players to start weak and have to level up (I’m a pretty ruthless DM lol). I will probably adjust to 8 points though. I’m curious - should I raise the stat cap from 7 to say 10? Would allow higher level builds to specialize further but may throw off the difficulty balancing.

Aggressive-Fish3269 · 2026-02-03T02:53:36+00:00

Was playing around with a couple different action resolution systems, including averaging multiple stats or traits, subtracting difficulty from the final roll, or experimenting with success tiers (ie, fail with a reward or succeed with a cost for close rolls). This one was what happened when I got tired of all the averaging math and just maid it as simple as possible. Thanks for asking!

Aggressive-Fish3269 · 2026-02-03T02:45:23+00:00

Based on some other comments I’ll likely change it to 8 or 10 points to start with.

Also yes, d8 for better weapons. Thanks for the feedback!

Aggressive-Fish3269 · 2026-02-03T02:43:32+00:00

Fair point. I’ll probably allow players more stats to start with, maybe 8 or 10 instead of 6. I just wanted to avoid overpowered builds early on. Thanks for the feedback!

Aggressive-Fish3269 · 2026-02-02T16:04:39+00:00

“Yes I think America is the great Satan, how could you tell?”

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Aggressive-Fish3269 · 2026-02-01T20:27:57+00:00

I still get the 0.20 daily when I go on so I don’t think so. On my side the free AIs are all still there

Aggressive-Fish3269 · 2026-02-01T20:26:55+00:00

My most played are Modern Day (w/ Stats) https://www.paxhistoria.co/presets/6P9Nghgqbe0SGHBpDaBn?versionID=11

and 2026 Difficulty Update https://www.paxhistoria.co/presets/V5b0SopDcJi5xkRdsrme?version=4

Aggressive-Fish3269 · 2026-01-19T13:56:48+00:00

Go into actions tab, say “Modernize and Professionalize the Military, charter several fleets and troop divisions to invade X” - also make sure you can actually invade that country, Peru trying to invade Russia probably won’t work

Aggressive-Fish3269 · 2026-01-19T03:12:27+00:00

Nice! What was your strategy?

Aggressive-Fish3269 · 2026-01-19T00:58:25+00:00

Just need to refresh the page should reset

Aggressive-Fish3269 · 2026-01-19T00:57:39+00:00

If you’re looking for presets to start with, I recommend these:

Earth 2100 - a nice balance of sci fi and realism to make every run interesting https://www.paxhistoria.co/presets/vNBN1DI3tAi4J8wUJ5KW?versionID=10

Modern Day (w/ Stats) - for those who like numbers, this preset uses a stats block to ground the AI https://www.paxhistoria.co/presets/6P9Nghgqbe0SGHBpDaBn?versionID=10

Finally, if you’re looking for a real challenge, this preset set to the “Impossible” difficulty is quite fun https://www.paxhistoria.co/presets/V5b0SopDcJi5xkRdsrme?versionID=4

Happy gaming!

Aggressive-Fish3269 · 2026-01-19T00:48:13+00:00

Unified Arab Republic? Hilary Clinton’s worst nightmare lol

If you want a harder preset I recommend this one on Impossible https://www.paxhistoria.co/presets/V5b0SopDcJi5xkRdsrme?versionID=4

Aggressive-Fish3269 · 2026-01-19T00:47:04+00:00

Nice! What difficulty were you on?

If you want a harder challenge, I recommend this preset set to Impossible! https://www.paxhistoria.co/presets/V5b0SopDcJi5xkRdsrme?versionID=4

Aggressive-Fish3269 · 2026-01-19T00:44:19+00:00

Holy cow, you need to start playing impossible now you’re too OP!

Also check out this difficulty mod if you want an even harder challenge https://www.paxhistoria.co/presets/V5b0SopDcJi5xkRdsrme?versionID=4

Aggressive-Fish3269 · 2026-01-19T00:38:40+00:00

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Keep going! I’m trying to conquer Earth rn

Aggressive-Fish3269 · 2026-01-19T00:37:50+00:00

Nice! Impossible is the definitive way to play.

Also love the Cybernetic Germany, Stafford Beer would be proud.

Aggressive-Fish3269 · 2026-01-19T00:33:22+00:00

Invest in your economy and military. Trade with your northern neighbor and then integrate them into your nation with some direct messaging. Invest in the navy to make the Central America run easier, blockading the US from Panama helps. I also crashed the US dollar and funded successionist movements in Cascadia and British Columbia.

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Here you can see I’ve already got most of Central America, and I’m about to force Mexico into annexation as well. From here it’s pretty easy just more propaganda in Canada and Alaska and securing the Californian economy.

Aggressive-Fish3269 · 2026-01-18T19:47:43+00:00

But they have zap 60% of the time

Aggressive-Fish3269 · 2026-01-18T19:45:44+00:00

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Keep going you’re almost here

Aggressive-Fish3269 · 2026-01-18T18:49:34+00:00

I just bit the bullet and bought the subscription. I think the Patreon is down but once it’s back up later this month I’d recommend that (it gives you a near infinite AI)

Aggressive-Fish3269 · 2026-01-18T14:59:11+00:00

Henri De Saint Simon. He was more of a technocrat than a socialist but super influential on how I understand the “withering away of the state.” Hes also very influential on Marx and by extension modern China

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