I have decided to make it simpler and very different from the Civ 3 RPG. First of all, all of it will be played out in story form meaning: Each of the players gets there own character with a certain amount of gold. You can then buy items (price set by mod of the game) and then you go out on adventures. The mod would generally be responsible for running the adventure so there would be three adventures at a time (one by me, one by puglover, and one by CG, although if any of us can do more than one, that is fine). Then, the mods can determine the results based on the characters decisions. The characters would fight bandits and maybe skirmish other characters from time to time, and in times of war an adventure could be doing a special mission for our army. Also, about the political parties thing, I don't exactly see how characters fighting each other could relate to slate voting or political parties, so please enlighten me.