Hi again,
I have received one or two responses to me directly, one for and one
against the time delay of year for actions. Since they did not publish
to the list or other players I will not reproduce the messages, but I
will respond.
I realize a year is a long time, but I did want to simulate the
debate that might take place among the factions. Normally, you can do
what you want w/in a country you conquer. You can use any of your
normal actions to take actions for the conquered society. Of course,
your actions should still be consistent w/ the history of the society.
If you actions goes against your own or the country's culture or
interests there could be minuses immediately or down the road.
Normally, if a country has a Parliament or Council, you might
choose to write about the long and difficult debate and publish whatever
actions you choose, but this seems different, here there are 7
independent player societies or non-player societies in this council
(Fae, Aloria, Taseleth, Kragan's Horde, Manund, Asentinir & the other
Eleven Cities. The Eleven Cities themselves are known for not being
able to agree on much. While potentially, the Fae have a majority (Fae,
Aloria, Taseleth, Kragan's Horde, Manund, plus the 3 other members of
the former anti-Asentir alliance), all those voices coming together is
not guaranteed. How to reflect the cacophony of all the voices present?
It is logical that most debates would not last a year and many
resolutions could pass quickly. In the interest of going faster, what
do
people think of 2 rolls for each action, both rolls occurring w/in the
same year. The first roll would be for the success of the passage of
the proposal and the second roll could be the result of the action.
Remember there still is the possibility of players writing actions that
the government could take on its own, bypassing the Regency Council. A
related question are any of the Regency Council who are players (or
become players) able to write actions or proposals for the Council?
The Regency sets policy for many things but it is not built to
micro-manage Asentinir itself. Also, how does one decide what are
actions the government could take on its own, and what are actions that
must be approved by the Council?
More thoughts, anyone?
Joel
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Hi all,
I ran into an interesting question (at least to me :-), and thought
I might acquire some opinions. In the Eleven Cities with all the
fighting & actions in Asentinir, it seems appropriate to make Asentinir
a Non-Player Society and separate from the rest of Eleven Cities. This
has already been done once for Manund, one of the other Eleven.
As of 2841, the Fae have taken over Asentinir. Normally, the
territory comes under control of the conquering player and they can
write actions for it. The Fae have created a Regency Council which sit
15 people. The Dukes of the other Eleven Cities, Kragan's Horde (the
small northern barbarian army settled in the Eleven Cities and 2
players, Aloria & Taseleth. And the Regency Council is to set policy
for Asentinir, so how does the Fae or the other occupiers write actions
for Asentinir?
My thoughts are twofold, that anyone wanting an action must but a
proposal before the Regency Council. & if other parties want they can
also write an action to support adding a +1 (so Aloria or Taseleth
could write actions to support adding +1 each, or vice versa among any
of them. In theory I guess another NPS could also write support if it
was something vital to them, but for the most part the dice & other
pluses/minuses would dictate the results.(which will reflect the votes
of the others). This means at least a year delay in actions occurring
since first the proposal must pass, but does reflect the difficulty in
getting 15 voices to agree on anything and the Dukes of the Eleven
Cities are notorious for their lack of agreement.
As occupying forces, the Fae/Aloria/Taseleth also have the
opportunity to write actions for their units inside Asentinir. In
addition I imagine they could make requests outside of the Regency
Council to the Asentinir government. This could be subject to other
pluses/minuses for going outside channels or could result in
pluses/minuses in dealing w/ others from the Council as they actions are
found out. Also, the government itself could prove to be happy or
unhappy about performing actions outside the established channels.
The Council creates an interesting layer of complexity to plotlines
and performing actions and I thought I would solicit opinions, on how to
perform actions while trying to cover all the potential ramifications.
Anyone having other ideas, please feel free to contribute.
Joel
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