I don't actually mind playing a drone character or two. That's how I started out in both Luria and Thalmarkin, but I somehow got involved into those realms (or their predecessor, in Luria's case) and now I hold all sorts of titles there. The issue comes when you get yourself overinvested in more characters than you can comfortably handle; at this point, you are at risk of becoming an "idle" council member/lord/marhsal that may bog things down. Something we should all try to avoid, perhaps, but it's not always to let go of the one ring moderate power.
