The Fuzz
12-30-2008, 18:54
Sorry if there's been a topic on this - I searched a few terms but nothing came up.
One aspect that I am missing from EB (and that EU:R stuffs up completely) is family intrigue. Every time you open a book on Ptolemaic Egypt, for example, you are greeted by stories of rows upon rows of people named Cleopatra doing naughty things with people named Ptolemy. This excites me.
Through traits, or something would it be possible to occasionally have a massive orgy (pun definitely intended) of terrible events due to an angry wife and/or jealous mistress? I know that there are mistress ancillaries and traits and all that good stuff, but I'm looking for more specific things. Rarer things that might occur twice in a game, or perhaps not all. Maybe if some guy has a mistress ancillary, and works in a gymno-forgot the rest of the word, and he's on the road a lot, he can get a trait about how he's dating his half-sister and his wife is none-too-pleased and she's trying to get him overthrown and replaced by his deformed younger brother that she had been sleeping with to try to get back at said named character?
Let me use names and break it down, because I'm getting confused.
Let's say you have someone named Πτολεμαίος XV ἰδιώτης, and he's often on the road, fighting endless stacks of low-level Seleucid phalangites. So he picks up a mistress. Her name is inconsequential. When he used to reside in the lovely city of Crocodilopolis (totally a nice place - ignore the name, it's like the Greenland/Iceland thing), he worked in a Gymnasion (?). This, coupled with the mistress, would give him a trait 'sexually voracious'. He also has a trait called 'keeping it in the family', which basically every Ptolemaic named character should have. He should probably also have a 'slightly deformed' trait.
If Πτολεμαίος XV ἰδιώτης gains all these traits and ancillaries, there would be a small chance he gets an ancillary named 'Κλεοπάτρα LXI', which would have the description 'This man has been spending a lot of time away from his wife, and his needs must be satisfied. This woman is his wife's daughter from a previous (also incestuous) marriage, and she fits the bill. As a result of this slight, your wife is attempting to overthrow you and put your deformed, obese, and dim-witted bastard half-brother in the throne. They have been inciting riots across kingdom in an attempt to shake your hold on power.'
Or maybe that could be one of those event pop-ups. Maybe some unrest would occur in a few major cities.
.........
I got carried away, I'll grant you that. But I'm looking for a bone to get thrown role-playing way.
Cheers, and as always, keep up the good work.
One aspect that I am missing from EB (and that EU:R stuffs up completely) is family intrigue. Every time you open a book on Ptolemaic Egypt, for example, you are greeted by stories of rows upon rows of people named Cleopatra doing naughty things with people named Ptolemy. This excites me.
Through traits, or something would it be possible to occasionally have a massive orgy (pun definitely intended) of terrible events due to an angry wife and/or jealous mistress? I know that there are mistress ancillaries and traits and all that good stuff, but I'm looking for more specific things. Rarer things that might occur twice in a game, or perhaps not all. Maybe if some guy has a mistress ancillary, and works in a gymno-forgot the rest of the word, and he's on the road a lot, he can get a trait about how he's dating his half-sister and his wife is none-too-pleased and she's trying to get him overthrown and replaced by his deformed younger brother that she had been sleeping with to try to get back at said named character?
Let me use names and break it down, because I'm getting confused.
Let's say you have someone named Πτολεμαίος XV ἰδιώτης, and he's often on the road, fighting endless stacks of low-level Seleucid phalangites. So he picks up a mistress. Her name is inconsequential. When he used to reside in the lovely city of Crocodilopolis (totally a nice place - ignore the name, it's like the Greenland/Iceland thing), he worked in a Gymnasion (?). This, coupled with the mistress, would give him a trait 'sexually voracious'. He also has a trait called 'keeping it in the family', which basically every Ptolemaic named character should have. He should probably also have a 'slightly deformed' trait.
If Πτολεμαίος XV ἰδιώτης gains all these traits and ancillaries, there would be a small chance he gets an ancillary named 'Κλεοπάτρα LXI', which would have the description 'This man has been spending a lot of time away from his wife, and his needs must be satisfied. This woman is his wife's daughter from a previous (also incestuous) marriage, and she fits the bill. As a result of this slight, your wife is attempting to overthrow you and put your deformed, obese, and dim-witted bastard half-brother in the throne. They have been inciting riots across kingdom in an attempt to shake your hold on power.'
Or maybe that could be one of those event pop-ups. Maybe some unrest would occur in a few major cities.
.........
I got carried away, I'll grant you that. But I'm looking for a bone to get thrown role-playing way.
Cheers, and as always, keep up the good work.