Sanctioning Vote for Chap 1

[Thomas_Percy]

Most of the new feats are "Master Something" with +2 for two skills.
It's boring, not worth a place in a CS and time of the reader.
But another way, that +2-feats are neccessary.
Maybe you can do ONE sample/example/template feat:
"Master of (Your Choice?)" which gives +2 bonus for two choosen by DM/PC skills?

[The Jew]

Originally posted by Thomas_Percy@Feb 20 2005, 07:34 AM
Most of the new feats are "Master Something" with +2 for two skills.
It's boring, not worth a place in a CS and time of the reader.
But another way, that +2-feats are neccessary.
Maybe you can do ONE sample/example/template feat:
"Master of (Your Choice?)" which gives +2 bonus for two choosen by DM/PC skills?

Most of the master feats are also related to getting a +2 bonus for effecting specific type of holdings.

[Thomas_Percy]

But maybe there is a possibility of make it short?
BR CS is a very big pdf and saving of 2-3 pages is not bad.

[Osprey]

One quick query that was raised with me is regarding the Master Administrator feat. At the moment it reads You gain a +2 bonus to Administrate checks, and a +2 bonus to Create, Contest, and Rule Province domain actions.

Should that read Rule Holding instead of Rule Province?

Nope - Ch 5 domain action key skills were revised (with a LOT of wrangling over the details, partly so we could hammer out the specifics of the Master feats) such that Administrate is the key skill for Rule (Create/Contest) Province only. The feat itself thus comes out far less broken than in the BRCS playtest; now it adds only to the occasional Rule Province action, but has the additional (very major) benefit of making seasonal maintenance checks still possible for larger domains. Thus, it's not just a good landed regent feat, but also an excellent lieutenant feat (as the name suggests).

Each type of holding (Cr/Co/Rule actions) has a different key skill:
Law: Lead
Temples: Diplomacy
Guilds: P/Merchant
Trade Routes: Diplomacy
Sources: K/Nature
Ley Lines: K/Arcana

[Raesene Andu]

Originally posted by Osprey@Feb 21 2005, 02:04 AM
Nope - Ch 5 domain action key skills were revised (with a LOT of wrangling over the details, partly so we could hammer out the specifics of the Master feats) such that Administrate is the key skill for Rule (Create/Contest) Province only. The feat itself thus comes out far less broken than in the BRCS playtest; now it adds only to the occasional Rule Province action, but has the additional (very major) benefit of making seasonal maintenance checks still possible for larger domains. Thus, it's not just a good landed regent feat, but also an excellent lieutenant feat (as the name suggests).

Each type of holding (Cr/Co/Rule actions) has a different key skill:
Law: Lead
Temples: Diplomacy
Guilds: P/Merchant
Trade Routes: Diplomacy
Sources: K/Nature
Ley Lines: K/Arcana

Ok, that makes sense then. I'll pass on the information. One query, what is the reasoning behind diplomacy as the skill for temples? The others seem logical, but wouldn't knowledge (religion) be better for temples?

[The Jew]

Originally posted by Raesene Andu@Feb 20 2005, 03:20 PM

Ok, that makes sense then. I'll pass on the information. One query, what is the reasoning behind diplomacy as the skill for temples? The others seem logical, but wouldn't knowledge (religion) be better for temples?

I was searching for the link to that discussion, but couldn't find it. If memory serves me, we decided (by we I mean whoever was most vocal and stubborn during that discussion) for diplomacy because expansion would be based on convincing the masses, not a display of religious or undead lore. Great theologians rarely head the fastest growing churches. A great theologian may have a high rank within a church, but it is the orally skilled preacher who will lead a church to expansion.

[irdeggman]

I'm closing this poll Chap 1 is now considered sanctioned.

Here are the results:

Should Chap 1 be sanctioned?
1. Yes [ 20 ] [76.92%]
2. No [ 6 ] [23.08%]
3. Abstain [ 0 ] [0.00%]
Total Votes: 26