Quote Originally Posted by TinCow
Ok, here are my answers to a lot of questions. Possible changes will follow later.
The more I think about this, the more it makes sense. Giving a FH a Royal Army from the start will make him a powerful figure. This means he will likely be towards the top of the feudal ladder, which makes sense. It will also make inheritance of the throne work better as well. I'll draw up changes that gives the FH a Royal Army, but also prevent him from getting a Private Army on top of that. If he got both, he'd be more powerful than the FL.
I like that change. Prince should have a Royal Army.

I left Guilds out because I thought that should be handled IC. To make this really simple, I could change this power: "Can set the build queue and tax rate for their settlement and all unallocated settlements under their control." to "Can set the build queue and tax rate for their settlement and all unallocated settlements under their control. Can destroy any building in any settlement under their control at any time." That way if a guild gets built that you don't like (or anything else) you can trash it and wait for the proper one.
I like it. But, would you consider giving a Grand Duke the power to dictate what guild goes in his area? If there are going to be few of them, I don't mind them having more powers.

Exactly. It's up to your Lord to make it worthwhile. This is one of the reasons why I don't see many people achieving the rank of GD. Keeping vassals happy will be hard.
I love this rule... Of course, it could have had to do with who was Jan's Duke... ^_^

This is an interesting idea. I definitely felt like the 'Penalties' ended too early. How does everyone else feel about these suggested changes to Knights?
What about allowing the Knight to vote but only if he swears fealty? This would provide an incentive to get people to become vassels.

*edit* I just noticed that Ramses just suggested this. ^_^

Makes sense, I will stick a "cannot cancel' rule in under the Limitation of Powers.
Good idea. Good catch FH!

That's something that should be decided IC. Under the rules, they can vote however they want. Whether they want to follow their Lord or not is up to IC considerations in my mind.
Good. It should be an IC matter how people vote.

They aren't. I suggest that people simply do their best to RP any adoptions that occur.
Since we'll be spamming RBG's from the beginning, there should be few, if any adoptions to worry about.

Technically it doesn't. Rule 2.7 takes precedence over all other rules, which applies to the seconding. I predict that we'll be fiddling with 2.7 a lot over the course of the game, so I intentionally avoiding referencing rank powers in other rules. That way, when we want to change a rank, we only need to change that portion of Rule 2.7, instead of several parts of the Rules. We just need to remember that Rule 2.7 overrides all other rules if there is a conflict between them.
Very good. With the old KotR Charter, it got annoying having to read the whole thing to find every instance of something that you wanted to amend. Hence, the unbelievably tedious "chicken count" argument.

Do avatars start with a free command point?
Occasionally if they have the right trait they do. But 5 loyalty and 3 piety is the default.

I'm edging towards removing the army composition altogether. Maybe we should vote on that.
Sure, why not. Seems like more trouble than it's worth. If we're going for more of a "internal political struggle" focus, who cares what kinds of armies the people are fighting the AI with.

Under 1.4, the Chancellor can go beyond 24 hours if he wants to and at the start of the game we won't have too many moves to make. I think the best thing to do with this is start with the rule as it stands, and then pass an Amendment later in the game that bumps it up to 48 hours (or whatever is required).
I'm still worried about the traffic jam this will cause. Maybe ask people to just download the save and ask the Chancellor to make the move for them. Otherwise, you'll have 20+ people trying to download/upload the save within 24 hours. o_O