Robert Harper
07-12-1998, 05:33 PM
At 10:09 PM 7/12/98 -0600, you wrote:
>I have encountered endless bidding & counter bidding during bouts of
>Contest responses, and it is a good way to get the PCs to cash out all
>those banked RPs. However, how does all this spending translate in game
>terms?
Why not? Real nations bankrupt themselves in arms races, beggar their
populations, ignore important internal economic or social issues in favour
of external foes or imaginary enemies.
Teaches the participants a lesson and adds to strategy (A & B beggar their
RP stores in contesting minor holdings, then C moves in and cleans up). As
long as there is a 3rd party waiting in the wings, no two foes should be
willing to exhaust too many RP's in a single struggle that is not vital.
I also don't see problem with permitting RP's to be spent on Rule; with the
penatlies to rule increasing at higher levels, the base cost increasing and
the limits on how often a province can be successfully ruled what's the problem?
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>I have encountered endless bidding & counter bidding during bouts of
>Contest responses, and it is a good way to get the PCs to cash out all
>those banked RPs. However, how does all this spending translate in game
>terms?
Why not? Real nations bankrupt themselves in arms races, beggar their
populations, ignore important internal economic or social issues in favour
of external foes or imaginary enemies.
Teaches the participants a lesson and adds to strategy (A & B beggar their
RP stores in contesting minor holdings, then C moves in and cleans up). As
long as there is a 3rd party waiting in the wings, no two foes should be
willing to exhaust too many RP's in a single struggle that is not vital.
I also don't see problem with permitting RP's to be spent on Rule; with the
penatlies to rule increasing at higher levels, the base cost increasing and
the limits on how often a province can be successfully ruled what's the problem?
__________________________________________________ _________________
| |
| We ask ourselves if there is a God, how can this happen? |
| Better to ask, if there is a God, must it be sane? |
| |
| Lucien LaCroix |
|_________________________________________________ __________________|