Birthright-L
12-17-2004, 07:30 PM
Just a thought...
Instead of having "low" or "high" morale (or attitude
or whatever), what if we had morale points that worked
kind of like hitpoints for characters and represented
roughly the same sort of thing -- an astract measure
of the domain`s health?
So, for example, you could perform actions or cast
realm spells or hold festivals, or something that
might, say, increase your morale points by 1d10.
Priests, of course, would probably have substatial
bonuses. The best advantage of this is that different
factors might effects how much domain is effected by
certain actions. An agitate action from a powerful
priest, for example, might do 1d12+6 morale damage,
whereas a guilder agitating might just do 1d8.
Domains could have a slow healing rate of morale
damage, up to their normal maximum. Effects that
bring it above its maximum might act as "temporary
hitpoints" just as with certain magic spells.
Dropping to 0 hitpoints might bring about Unrest,
whereas negative -10 or whatever might bring your
nation to open rebellion. The more the damage, the
harder it will be to recover.
Certain domain actions (declare war?) might cost some
amount of Morale Points. Random events may raise or
lower Morale Points for a season or three. Raising
taxes might cost Morale points. Lowering taxes might
generate Morale Points.
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While I wrought out these fitful Danaan rhymes,
My heart would brim with dreams about the times
When we bent down above the fading coals
And talked of the dark folk who live in souls
Of passionate men, like bats in the dead trees;
And of the wayward twilight companies
Who sigh with mingled sorrow and content,
Because their blossoming dreams have never bent
Under the fruit of evil and of good:
And of the embattled flaming multitude
Who rise, wing above wing, flame above flame,
And, like a storm, cry the Ineffable Name,
And with the clashing of their sword-blades make
A rapturous music, till the morning break
And the white hush end all but the loud beat
Of their long wings, the flash of their white feet.
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Instead of having "low" or "high" morale (or attitude
or whatever), what if we had morale points that worked
kind of like hitpoints for characters and represented
roughly the same sort of thing -- an astract measure
of the domain`s health?
So, for example, you could perform actions or cast
realm spells or hold festivals, or something that
might, say, increase your morale points by 1d10.
Priests, of course, would probably have substatial
bonuses. The best advantage of this is that different
factors might effects how much domain is effected by
certain actions. An agitate action from a powerful
priest, for example, might do 1d12+6 morale damage,
whereas a guilder agitating might just do 1d8.
Domains could have a slow healing rate of morale
damage, up to their normal maximum. Effects that
bring it above its maximum might act as "temporary
hitpoints" just as with certain magic spells.
Dropping to 0 hitpoints might bring about Unrest,
whereas negative -10 or whatever might bring your
nation to open rebellion. The more the damage, the
harder it will be to recover.
Certain domain actions (declare war?) might cost some
amount of Morale Points. Random events may raise or
lower Morale Points for a season or three. Raising
taxes might cost Morale points. Lowering taxes might
generate Morale Points.
=====
While I wrought out these fitful Danaan rhymes,
My heart would brim with dreams about the times
When we bent down above the fading coals
And talked of the dark folk who live in souls
Of passionate men, like bats in the dead trees;
And of the wayward twilight companies
Who sigh with mingled sorrow and content,
Because their blossoming dreams have never bent
Under the fruit of evil and of good:
And of the embattled flaming multitude
Who rise, wing above wing, flame above flame,
And, like a storm, cry the Ineffable Name,
And with the clashing of their sword-blades make
A rapturous music, till the morning break
And the white hush end all but the loud beat
Of their long wings, the flash of their white feet.
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