How have the Humans won against the elves?

[kgauck]

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From: "Ryan B. Caveney" <ryanb@CYBERCOM.NET>

Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 9:30 PM





> I like this, too. Do you have some bloodline equivalent which

> you use to impose a maximum on RP collection, or (given the

> overall reduction) do you not bother?



Not only does the overall reduction obviate the need for an upper limit, but

its hard to hold a large real together with such a small pool of available

RP. The optimum realm size is the one where the ruler can solve as much as

possible with character and advenure actions. This is probabaly a realm of

3-4 provinces. You can increase or decrease this amount by how busy you

keep rulers.



Kenneth Gauck

kgauck@mchsi.com

[geeman]

At 10:30 PM 4/13/2004 -0400, Ryan Caveney wrote:



>>In the past what I`ve done is had the domain level of other campaign

>>worlds (sans RP) work pretty much like it does in BR, but a "mundane"

>>action round is a season rather than a month and the "mundane" domain

>>turn is a divided up into the four seasons rather than the three months

>>of the BR domain rules.

>

>Oh, quite good. What do you do about standard actions that have RP

>requirements, though? Can no one Agitate, Fortify, create Trade Routes, or

>Rule provinces and holdings above level 1? Good old "1 GB = 1 RP", or

>something else?



"Standard RP" costs were pretty much ignored. That is, if it had a 1 RP

cost it was "free" to perform. Actually, it was assumed to be included in

the difficulty of the action, because actions that had 2+ RP costs altered

the DC ("chance of success" back then...) of the task. Since I play out

domain actions PCs got bonuses to their checks to determine success and

failure. Due to the much longer period of the actions/turns they had a lot

of time to perform adventure level activities to get those bonuses, so they

could assure success much the way RP do.



>Also, presumably you collect taxation only once per year (on the first

>action round of the domain turn)?



We collected taxes at the beginning of every domain turn/season IIRC.



>Do you alter the time scale of military operations at all?



At the time I didn`t because we didn`t do a lot of large scale combat, so

it didn`t come up. (The regents were primarily guilders and temple

holders.) If I were to do it now I`d likely keep the war move at 1 week,

but I`d have to think about that first.



Gary