I'm interested to hear what rules other EB'ers use when determining succession. The default choice seems to be whoever has the highest influence when a FL dies becomes the next FH, but I find it fun to mess around a bit.

I used to use the "oldest son of the FL is the FH" rule (ie, keep it in the family), but recently have been playing around with a few others. I don't know if these were ever populer in ancient (or not-so-ancient) cultures - perhaps I could be enlightened?

I've tried the matrilinieal option (I think it's called), where whoever marries the FL's first daughter becomes the FH, and their first daughter determines the next heir etc.

In a recent Getai campaign I also tried using the "best qualified" (my choice) candidate who had a father or grand-father who had been FL, to be the next FH.

I tend to find it more entertaining to stick to hard and fast rules with succession, even if the next FH has major physical or psychological problems to overcome. I see this as part of the challenge.

Which succession rules do you use?