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by WB - Water's Blessing
Sun Jul 25, 2021 11:36 am
Forum: Rule Discusions
Topic: Future game set-up concepts
Replies: 272
Views: 24577

Re: Future game set-up concepts

I don't think it's really more work for him to have a way to express opinions he likely already holds, but it might not be a position he wants to be in. My concerns about giving it to players (aside from the previously-expressed metagame concern) is that we'll have a tendency to reward visible RP ra...
by WB - Water's Blessing
Sun Jul 25, 2021 11:15 am
Forum: Rule Discusions
Topic: Future game set-up concepts
Replies: 272
Views: 24577

Re: Future game set-up concepts

Yes, factions will always form. The key is to make sure that it's multipolar factionalism (3-5 factions) so that there are shifting alliances and considerable uncertainty rather than bipolarity, which bogs down into a cold war. Part of it would be mechanical -- limiting the number of legally-binding...
by WB - Water's Blessing
Sun Jul 25, 2021 10:01 am
Forum: Rule Discusions
Topic: Future game set-up concepts
Replies: 272
Views: 24577

Re: Future game set-up concepts

I think, up to a point, the addition of buildings and additional rules of such kind is part of why there is less rp. BIrthright at its core is very simplistic. If we want to really boost RP then a core game with simplistic rules might be the thing. It might also cut down on some of the difference i...
by WB - Water's Blessing
Thu Apr 29, 2021 2:50 pm
Forum: Out of Character
Topic: Cultue, Traits, and Evolution
Replies: 111
Views: 13743

Re: Cultue, Traits, and Evolution

My view on this is much closer to MF's -- they're cultural differences and not biological differences. It would be like arguing that the difference between Germans and Italians is that they are different races rather than their cultures tend to emphasize different foci. My home state of Indiana prod...
by WB - Water's Blessing
Thu Apr 29, 2021 9:44 am
Forum: Out of Character
Topic: Cultue, Traits, and Evolution
Replies: 111
Views: 13743

Re: Cultue, Traits, and Evolution

Well, if the Unseelie empire has been wiped out by the reset, its dialect could still constitute an ancient language if it was a separate language from regular Sidhelein.
by WB - Water's Blessing
Thu Apr 29, 2021 9:35 am
Forum: Out of Character
Topic: Cultue, Traits, and Evolution
Replies: 111
Views: 13743

Cultue, Traits, and Evolution

The one thing that has remained constant across the many iterations of the meta-plot is the culture of the many peoples of the diaspora. However, they have often found themselves pushed in different directions than they originally were situated in in the base BR setting. So, one idea I thought I mig...
by WB - Water's Blessing
Sat Apr 17, 2021 8:00 pm
Forum: Rule Discusions
Topic: Using "Blood Failure" to enforce Agreements
Replies: 35
Views: 8001

Re: Using "Blood Failure" to enforce Agreements

Again, apparently Juan sees it differently. And, it's not any divine blood that can do it. It's divine essence backed up by worshippers believing in that divine essence. That it cannot happen without a cleric and a faith ipso facto means that gods make it happen, not the blood itself. That the god e...
by WB - Water's Blessing
Sat Apr 17, 2021 7:37 pm
Forum: Rule Discusions
Topic: Using "Blood Failure" to enforce Agreements
Replies: 35
Views: 8001

Re: Using "Blood Failure" to enforce Agreements

They do if you build it into one of their investitures, apparently.
by WB - Water's Blessing
Sat Apr 17, 2021 7:30 pm
Forum: Rule Discusions
Topic: Using "Blood Failure" to enforce Agreements
Replies: 35
Views: 8001

Re: Using "Blood Failure" to enforce Agreements

Strongly disagree with that interpretation. It's the gods, not the blood.
by WB - Water's Blessing
Sat Apr 17, 2021 5:44 pm
Forum: Rule Discusions
Topic: Using "Blood Failure" to enforce Agreements
Replies: 35
Views: 8001

Re: Using "Blood Failure" to enforce Agreements

I personally have the opinion, that blood oaths or forced vasslage combined with loss of blood if breached are used to dominate and control other players. It should be something really seldom or bounded to a special course and not a routine where you can give contracts more security. Why should god...