Cool stuff in the new rulebook

[Ymbert Montgomery]

Obviously, this isn't meant to cover everything. Just random highlights of cool things the new rulebook allows you to do.

Careers (References varies)

We have extended rules for some careers and some entirely new careers. As well as army, clergy and artist you can now be a musician, a spy, a doctor, a lawyer, a professional playwright or an actor. For any of these, if you're interested in a specific one best to IM me!

Languages (36.37)

Think I should bring this into character gen, but many of you now are allowed to choose additional languages.

Peasants only get one if they come from one of the border provinces (in which case they may speak either Spanish, Dutch, German or Italian).
Merchants and gentlemen get one extra language and Nobles get two.

The available languages are:

English (England), Spanish (Spain), Portuguese (Portugal), Italian (Savoy, Papacy, Naples), German (Austria, Brandenberg), Dutch (Holland) and Swedish (Sweden).

For RP languages not on those list you can have them for free with gm approval. (All doctors and priests will get Latin for free etc.)

At the moment this only has an effect on the spying rules, but it's likely to be expanded to other areas where it makes sense.

Liaisons (8.10)

Those of you looking for something more casual and cheaper than a mistress now have the option for a fling. Bonus points for using this with other people's mistresses.

Visiting Mistress' Family (8.16)

This can make it more likely your mistress agrees to marry you and they may even give you gifts. On the other hand, they may hate you.

Pistol Duels (11.0)

Another deadly option for duels. Interestingly, some characters may be good with pistols but hopless with swords and vice versa.

Appointments 24.0

Lots of new ones here to give more options.

Horse Racing 29.0

You'll hopefully have seen the racehorse auction. But even for people without the resources to own a racehorse, there will be events etc. here.

Skullduggery 31.0

There are now more ways to screw over your enemy PCs.

Family 32.0

You can now go visit your family and try and scrounge money from them. Or family members might pass away!

Cloak and Daggers 36.0

You can work for intelligence agencies or just gather secrets for the highest bidder. (If this appeals, this is definitely something to let me know sooner rather than later).

That's just some very brief highlights. Any questions feel free to ask. Hope other people are enjoying the new options; it feels like Liminal is much closer to the game I want it to be now!

[huillaume]

Feb 2, 2020 2:21:58 GMT Ymbert Montgomery said:

Languages (36.37)

Think I should bring this into character gen, but many of you now are allowed to choose additional languages.

Peasants only get one if they come from one of the border provinces (in which case they may speak either Spanish, Dutch, German or Italian).
Merchants and gentlemen get one extra language and Nobles get two.

The available languages are:

English (England), Spanish (Spain), Portuguese (Portugal), Italian (Savoy, Papacy, Naples), German (Austria, Brandenberg), Dutch (Holland) and Swedish (Sweden).

As for peasants living in the Spanish border, in fact historically they would be more likely to know either Euskera (basque tongue, for those i nthe atlantic coast) or Catalan (for those in the Eastern Pyrinees) than Spanish. The only border zone that spoke some Spanish was the Central Pyrinees, and those were nearly unpassable at those times (even now, most communications among France and Spain are in both extremes).

Of course, those langages were already quite local affairs by then, and their use in diplomacy or any other aspect of the game would be limited (except maybe, if the action occurs in their respective zones).

This aside, isn't Latin open to non merchant nor priests? It remained somewhat the diplomatic language...

[Ymbert Montgomery]

Feb 2, 2020 17:52:57 GMT huillaume said:

This aside, isn't Latin open to non merchant nor priests? It remained somewhat the diplomatic language...

Those were just examples; if it maakes sense for backgrounds people can have Latin. (It will almsot certainly never matter mechanically though).

[gaston]

Regards Euskera and Catalan, as Huillaume says they would be of little use in the game.  Better to keep things simple and say Pyrenean peasants can speak Spanish.

Regards Latin - something lawyers would be familiar with too. 

[Ymbert Montgomery]

For people with a better grasp of geography then me, which Border provinces are likely to speak which language?

[huillaume]

For provinces according Character Creation, and according their situation:

Province	Situation	Main City	Possible languages
Britany	North West Atlantic Coast	Brest	Briton, English, Dutch
Burgundy	East of Ile de France	Dijon	None (German)
Champagne	North East of Ile de France	Reims	Flemish, Dutch, Spanish
Gascony	South West Atlantic coast	Bordeaux	Euskera, Spanish, English
Ile de France	Paris zone	Paris	None
Languedoc	East Pyrinees/west Mediterranean Coast	Toulouse	Occitan, Catalan, Spanish
Normandy	North of Ile de France	Caen	Normand, English, Dutch
Picardy	Somme Valley, East of Ile de France	Amiens	Picard (Dutch)
Provence	East Mediterranean coast, South Alps	Marseille	Occitanian, Italian, Spanish

Main City is given for reference, the one I guess can better situate people

Italics languages are local, of little game use (except for some local missions or pure roleplaying), given only for completness. In the case of Normand, Flemish and Picard, they were close enough to French as to be able to understand each other (albeit with some difficulty). Of course, there can be more that I am not aware about...

Languages in Red are due to naval trade

Paris society could use any language diplomatically or culturally relevant.