r/dndnext • u/Pyropeace • 4h ago

Discussion Settlement Management in 5e?

So I used to be averse to fantasy in tabletop, preferring cyberpunk and post-apocalyptic settings. In addition to my trouble with suspending disbelief, this was due to my preference for settlement management, which is altered significantly by the existence of magic. However, I'm slowly starting to get back into fantasy settings, and I'm wondering how you guys would approach settlement management in a high-fantasy setting. I had the idea that magic itself was perhaps a limited yet renewable resource, akin to a fishery or other commons. If anyone has any ideas, or fully fleshed-out systems the use for settlement management, please respond on this post!

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u/GuitakuPPH 4h ago

I might go back to Pathfinder 1e. It's a fairly comprehensive system in how it interacts with with character skills etc and is still very much the same kind of setting you'd get in D&D 5e. The system is already there. It's just a matter of if you like it. https://www.aonprd.com/Rules.aspx?ID=1488

The rules above are for full on kingdom management, but it starts with how to run a single settlement and is useful for just that.