Successor game rules, draft one.

[Cecil XIX]

Why not just have it that your ability to prioritize units can target any province owned by your faction? Simple, and flexible.

I'd prefer things to stay as they are. If you want to acquire the best units without asking for outside help, make sure you own the settlements where they are produced!

[Zim]

I rather like the recruitment rules as they are as well. It worked very well in the last game without complaints...

Truthfully very little recruitment seemed to be done with prioritization in LOTR, mostly it helped out Houses who may not be friendly with the Megas, who would otherwise tend to recruit more troops than could be prioritized for everyone anyway.

I'll delete that one line on marrying the princess that seems confusing, Econ.

Just in case anyone missed it in the rules I wanted to announce that TheFlax is the cowriter for events in the game, although I would need to implement them due to some troubles with his version and the console. Also once the game starts, should some emergency take me away from my computer for any great length of time, all questions and disputes that require gm assistance can be referred to him.

[Ignoramus]

Whoa! I'm way out of the loop here. See what happens when you go away for 5 days...

I agree with econ with regarding the four houses. I think having the four Duchies controlled by the king's children is fine. Remember that many of the major nobility had blood-ties to the ruling king, and one of the houses won't be controlled by a blood heir, because it will be the princess' husband.

Regarding civil wars, I hope that we can engineer more petty disputes, which result in a quick battle and then a political settlement. But they shouldn't occur too often.

[Zim]

I kind of wonder if duels will take the place of the more petty conflicts. It could be one beneficial side effect of adding in that option.

[TheFlax]

Remember that many of the major nobility had blood-ties to the ruling king, and one of the houses won't be controlled by a blood heir, because it will be the princess' husband.

Let's not get ahead of ourselves here, shall we?

[Ignoramus]

One must plan ahead...

[Zim]

Ok, two people have spoken out in favor of the Steward holding rule for the young starting FMs side, with none (that I see, might be missing a post...) against.

Given that we're closing in on the end of the planning stage and may be starting when we get the minimod worked out, and this is a fairly minor issue in the very long run (albeit one with quite some importance in the short run) I'd like to get it out of the way.

Having stewards does spread the chance to play a House leader a bit in the early game (since first the Stewards get quite some time as a leader, then the newly come of age princes), and does make the Princess very important in game, so I think I will take accepting that suggestion as the default decision. Does anyone have any major worries about such a system. It may seem to add some complexity but wasn't an issue in KOTR, so we know it works.

Bah, beaten to it by a poll.

[ULC]

I have an objection! What about new houses? Are they going to be subsumed by the Royal House as well? Honestly, leave it up to the Dukes on whether or not to pass on their Ducal title to a member of the Royal Family.

We have Noble Houses, and it doesn't make sense to me to hand it over to some twerp who has no idea how to govern a House just because the rules say so - that's an immediate civil war brewing. If I had contorl of a House, I would not, under any circumstances, surrender my title to the royal line.

And if a RBG wishes to make his House hereditary, he has to marry into the family or be adopted, which already takes care of keeping the Houses in the family.