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[Ymbert Montgomery]

Obviously, there's more to do with the rulebook, but I thought I'd do a master thread to find out how people felt about seeing them in play.

My thoughts:

Mistress Rules

By coincidence (I really didn't fix the rolls!) the overabudnence of Court Balls gave these a good playtest.

And I like the results.

The extra SP penalty or loss didn't seem overwhelming.

Making separate rolls for them (as opposed to the other suggestion of using them as a potential boost to PC abilities) obviously leads to more bookkeeping at my end. But I think the story potential that was shown by things like a PC failing their Dance roll and being saved by the Dancing of their mistress more than made up for that. And it gave me (or rather Le Mole) a lot of material for the report.

SP Cap

It's a bit early to tell here, because several of you had buffers from the 1.5 calculation. But cautiously this seems to have worked to me. People can still rise in SP but it's not longer inevitable and people need to aggressively chase SP, especialy at higher levels.

Guard Rules

This obviously was only really seen by 2 of you. But I think they worked. The additional Etiquette rolls gives guards a chance to earn SP. And the royal notice roll, while highly unlikely, does mean that Guards can pick up high level favours. I think the latter is thematic and both balance out the difficulty Guards have in going to the front.

What do other people think?

[huillaume]

One question:

after the former discussions, is the autofail on a roll of 1 for appointments kept?

[Ymbert Montgomery]

Yes, that is.

[huillaume]

Not new, but had no importance up to now.

About Clubs (clarification asked):

Requisites to join the Fleur de Lys are SL 18+, Bishop or above, Minister or full General

Is one of those prerequisites enough, or you must be Bishop or above, Minister or full General and have SL 18+?

So, can a SL 18 character that is neither Bishop, Minister nor General (or a Bishop with SL 17- , for what's worth) join it?

[Ymbert Montgomery]

Yes to that, so a Bishop with lower SL or a 18+ character is eligible.

[huillaume]

I cannot find where is said that privates must do 2 weeks of regimental duties and subaterns 1 week...

[Ymbert Montgomery]

The original rulebook.

[huillaume]

Oct 10, 2020 18:23:14 GMT Ymbert Montgomery said:

The original rulebook.

But there the rules for asking for a week off do not exist. Do they in Liminal 1.2? If so I'd suggest a special modifier of +3 if marrying this month...

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An entirely different matter:

I see in the rules you changed Champagne for Aquitaine, as gaston suggested, but in the Characters, ladies ,et,c you have not, as characters and ladies keep appearing to be from Champagne, as Hillaume's Barony...

[Ymbert Montgomery]

Oct 14, 2020 17:02:10 GMT huillaume said:

Oct 10, 2020 18:23:14 GMT Ymbert Montgomery said:

The original rulebook.

But there the rules for asking for a week off do not exist. Do they in Liminal 1.2? If so I'd suggest a special modifier of +3 if marrying this month...

Yes they do.

[q]Privates and Subalterns may be excused from duty by the permission of their Battalion Commanders. A non-player Battalion Commander will excuse a player from one week of duty on a roll of 5 or greater on one die. This may be modified by influence.[/q]

But fair point, especially as we no long have battalions. I'll put a table together. I can think of other circumstances that should involve modifiers - deaths in the family, birth of a child etc.

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An entirely different matter:

I see in the rules you changed Champagne for Aquitaine, as gaston suggested, but in the Characters, ladies ,et,c you have not, as characters and ladies keep appearing to be from Champagne, as Hillaume's Barony...

Good point and I'll update it as part of the next turn. The rules were done by a search and replace which isn't possible on the forum!

[Jacques Bougiedure]

As an alternative, you could replace permission of Battalion Commander with permission of Company Commander maintaining the 5+ roll for an NPC commander to excuse. It would lower the favor needed to influence from 2 to 1 which itself might mitigate the need for a modifier for special circumstances.

[huillaume]

Oct 14, 2020 18:27:08 GMT Jacques Bougiedure said:

As an alternative, you could replace permission of Battalion Commander with permission of Company Commander maintaining the 5+ roll for an NPC commander to excuse. It would lower the favor needed to influence from 2 to 1 which itself might mitigate the need for a modifier for special circumstances.

See this will only affect 1st Company members, as now the subalterns/privateers are not always on it, and the influence for a Major and a Captain is the same (level 1)

[huillaume]

Erroneous post (once again, I looked at house rules 1.2 instead of Liminal rules 1.2).

Please, Louis delte it

[Ymbert Montgomery]

I suggest deleting 1.2 from your PC.

[huillaume]

According 7.1, one may also hold parties and social events at the club. Of course, this includes wedding alls, as specified in 8.13, but can one also hold other balls there?

If so, I guess rules are the same as per balls at a mansion (double carousing costs), but sometimes it wil lgive more SPs to the guests...