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    Default Re: KOTR Postmortem and Next-Gen Rules Discussion

    Quote Originally Posted by FactionHeir
    I think that the new rule may be too stringent in that the natural born sons of the avatar that dies may well go completely empty if they are not player controlled even if of age. That doesn't seem fair nor historical at all.

    Example: Grand Duke Nukem dies and has (a) son(s) (that is not taken by another player and of age). All his wealth and provinces and retinue go to his vassals or the leader rather than to his son(s). Doesn't seem to make too much sense unless the son(s) have mental traits.

    Maybe limit the rule so that not everything can be bequeathed to the player's next character, but a province or two can, depending on station at time of death. And this to only apply if the next character is already of age and unassigned or nearly of age (14 or higher) and unassigned. Otherwise it will go to the player's nearest bloodrelative, or if there are none, the emperor.
    The problem I see is that it will be open to abuse. A player could just leave his future avatar land and a title. I rather see it go to a new player, even if it means by-passing the "eldest son".

    In KotR, we had players pass along IC information to their new avatars. I know you did it with Ruppel. The Order did it when their players had to take new avatars. And I was going to do it with Andreas von Hamburg. To me, this is ok. If you want to plug your new avatar into well developed storylines, I think you should be able to.

    But leaving your new avatar land and titles is different in my opinion. It consolidates the power in the hands of a few players instead of leaving it open. This will create resentment both IC and OOC, as we saw in KotR.

    I noticed TC has left out family tree politics entirely in his rules draft. I doubt this was an accident. Instead, it is up to the players to move their characters up the ladder.

    Unless we want to add in family tree politics into the rules. But maybe that is something that should be RP'd IC instead of legislated OOC. Just my thoughts...

    *edit*

    What you could do, if you want to leave things to the eldest son, is this. Leave things to a third party. And then when the eldest son comes of age, the third party can then give everything over. This would keep the issue strictly IC using the mechanics already available. This would of course require a third party who is willing to do it. And he could always change his mind. But such is the risk of politics...
    Last edited by Privateerkev; 04-14-2008 at 18:22.


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