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02-06-2004, 03:30 AM #41
Milos Rasic:
> Arabs, who have, too, been influenced by Persians, Phoenicians,
> Egyptians and other less famous nations too numerous to list here.
> Masetians represent those ancient nations, mostly Egyptians, probably
> because they are best known.
I`m confused.
I think we may be differing in the Arabs we are referring to. I meant primarily
the pre-Islamic tribesmen of the southern Arabia.
I like my Masetians to be Persian over Egyptian. The only Egyptian feel I get
from the Masetians is via the Serpent. The problem is, I don`t believe either
of these historical people were especially nautically inclined. My preference
then is to assume that the Masetians would be Persians, since the Persian
preoccupation with astronomy and astrology would conceivable have some use in
maritime navigation.
> I have no idea what these two things mean although I know that "episkop"
> is a title equivalent to bishop in Orthodox churches.
Exactly. An episcopalian church is run by bishops. Presbyterian comes from, I
believe, presbuteroi, which I have been led to believe means "elders". A
presbyterian church has no "official" leaders (such as bishops) but instead
has "church elders". The Catholic, Orthodox, and High Anglicans are all
episcopalian. Most other Protestants (Lutherans, Calvinists, Baptists, etc.)
are presbyterian I believe.
> As much as it is silly to assume that everything should be the same. If
> you want to play a historical game, than do it.
Don`t worry, if I wanted to I would not have asked for your permission! :)
I rarely play truly historical RPGs. I play historical wargames to get my fix
of rigorous adherence to history. I don`t think anyone is saying, I am
certainly not, that we should play a rigorously historical BR game. I have
never said "There should be no Gorgon because there were never any giant stone
monster-men." My criticisms of the Gorgon are mainly directed at people
misusing his intelligence as an argument for why he should be a wizard.
I just think that it is obvious that BR is partly a game about pseudo-medieval
government and partly a game of high fantasy. We are happy to look at fantastic
sources for inspiration about how to add complexity to the fantastic parts of
the game; why do some people feel so bad about looking at historical sources
for inspiration about the parts of the game that resemble something from our
history?
Totally unrelated: Milos, I notice that someone with the same name as you a
Hero Quest PBeM now. Is that you? How do you find the game?
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02-06-2004, 03:30 AM #42
irdeggman:
> Ouch. :o
> I haven`t `pissed` you off lately have I Kenneth?
I`m certain if you had, you would have heard about it; there`s not a lot of
punch-pulling going on around here.
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02-06-2004, 03:30 AM #43
Anthony Juarez:
> Many of us stopped following the conversation awhile ago.
Not me. Frequently some useful points come out of these furious arguments, if
repetition can be staved off long enough.
> Keep it to yourself, okay? Or at least make your insults short and witty so
> as to entertain the rest of us....
I`m personally okay with verbose and witty, to be honest. Must be all that Jack
Vance I have read.
> You know for a fact that Gary is the Moderator of our list. He`s gonna
> post something about not trolling people. He has to. It`s his job; we
> elected him to do it. And you know it`ll make him look petty. Why do
> that? Because this goes to the forum, I`m sure Irdegmon will post a
> link to his "we should all be friends" post again just to try to keep
> things civil.
I think its a terrible idea to mention the word "troll". They out to make a law
about it, like the one with Nazis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin`s_law
Sometimes people`s earnest attempts to make a point gets called "trolling".
It`s best to avoid the word entirely in my opinion. (I think Kenneth actually
brought it up first this time around, I`m not keeping score though).
> This was largely unnecessary. And I`m not saying it because I have to.
> Damn. I`ll probably get reprimanded too, now...
Yeah, I was going to say something about kettles and pots and the colour
black. ;)
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John Machin
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"Power performs the Miracle." - Johannes Trithemius
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02-06-2004, 03:50 AM #44
Gary:
> United in Hatred of Gary,
> Gary
This reminds me of the old line:
"I`m self-employed. Yeah, the boss is a right pxxxk!"
BTW how much are the annual membership dues Gary ;P
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John Machin
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The Other John From Dunedin (now in Canberra)
"Power performs the Miracle." - Johannes Trithemius
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02-06-2004, 04:30 AM #45
At 04:11 PM 2/6/2004 +1300, John Machin wrote:
>I`m certain if you had, you would have heard about it; there`s not a lot
>of punch-pulling going on around here.
Actually, I`ve been pulling a lot of punches. I give my posts a quick once
over before I send them and lately I`ve deleted nearly as much text from
them as I`ve sent because upon rereading I thought some stuff was too
provocative (not incorrect, mind you, just too provocative.) If I said
what I *really* thought I`m pretty sure that`d be a bad thing. Even the
edited versions raised accusations of trolling and some out and out flames....
Gary
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02-06-2004, 07:50 AM #46
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> Not me. Frequently some useful points come out of these furious
> arguments, if
> repetition can be staved off long enough.
True. Two points here: 1) I wasn`t speaking for everyone, and 2) I
really shouldn`t have made the comment because it kind of hurts those
who are following and hope to participate or lurk. The "no one wants to
hear this" is about the stupidest comment you can make on a list/board,
and I`m as proficient with my DEL key as anyone.
>> Keep it to yourself, okay? Or at least make your insults short and
>> witty so
>> as to entertain the rest of us....
>
> I`m personally okay with verbose and witty, to be honest. Must be all
> that Jack
> Vance I have read.
Okay, I don`t who Jack Vance is off the top of my head. Tomorrow I`ll
look through my book collection and if its not their I`ll bug my
librarian about it.
> I think its a terrible idea to mention the word "troll". They out to
> make a law
> about it, like the one with Nazis.
You can replace the word with another more to your liking, if you wish.
>> This was largely unnecessary. And I`m not saying it because I have to.
>> Damn. I`ll probably get reprimanded too, now...
>
> Yeah, I was going to say something about kettles and pots and the
> colour
> black. ;)
Yeah, yeah... You people and your archaic cookware... I know.
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02-06-2004, 04:30 PM #47
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John Machin schrieb:
>Milos Rasic:
>
>
>>Arabs, who have, too, been influenced by Persians, Phoenicians,
>>Egyptians and other less famous nations too numerous to list here.
>>Masetians represent those ancient nations, mostly Egyptians, probably
>>because they are best known.
>>
>>
>I`m confused.
>I think we may be differing in the Arabs we are referring to. I meant primarily
>the pre-Islamic tribesmen of the southern Arabia.
>
>I like my Masetians to be Persian over Egyptian. The only Egyptian feel I get
>from the Masetians is via the Serpent. The problem is, I don`t believe either
>of these historical people were especially nautically inclined. My preference
>then is to assume that the Masetians would be Persians, since the Persian
>preoccupation with astronomy and astrology would conceivable have some use in
>maritime navigation.
>
Especially nautiaclly inclined? As far as I remember most ancient sea
travles were nothing special nautically as most ships stayed if possible
in sight of the coast to navigate (remember the game Civilization in
which the early galley units have a chance to vanish if they are not
close to land on the end of the turn? ;-)). However that does not mean
that the early seafaring nations did not travel far and wide. Especially
the phoenizians were known to travel not only the mediterranian sea but
also to britannia (was it zinc or tin they bought there I don´t
remember). I remember to have heard about one early sea travel around
africa but I can´t remember if it was egyptian or phoenician, they
brought a gorilla with them.
Something else: The "Rus" that were no slavs that someone mentioned
earlier have been called "Waräger" in my german history lessons so I did
not recognize the name immediately.
bye
Michael
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02-07-2004, 01:50 AM #48
At 04:23 PM 2/6/2004 +1300, John Machin wrote:
>BTW how much are the annual membership dues Gary ;P
1RP.
Gary
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02-07-2004, 03:30 AM #49
Quoting Michael Romes <Archmage@T-ONLINE.DE>:
> Especially nautiaclly inclined? As far as I remember most ancient sea
> travles were nothing special nautically as most ships stayed if
> possible in sight of the coast to navigate (remember the game Civilization in
> which the early galley units have a chance to vanish if they are not
> close to land on the end of the turn? ;-)). However that does not mean
> that the early seafaring nations did not travel far and wide.
> Especially the phoenizians were known to travel not only the mediterranian
> sea but also to britannia (was it zinc or tin they bought there I don´t
> remember). I remember to have heard about one early sea travel around
> africa but I can´t remember if it was egyptian or phoenician, they
> brought a gorilla with them.
My point was that I see the Masetians as Persian-like EXCEPT that they were
nautically inclined. The Masetians had a sea-deity; the Persians did not
regard the sea as an ally.
Also: the Masestians are said to have encountered the Basarji, which would
involve a journey far away from coasts (to the Dragon Isles and/or the Golden
Archipelago)
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02-07-2004, 12:25 PM #50
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" A Lt is not a regent, but can be a scion."
I`ll have to go through the BR materials to find them, but IIRC there are a
couple of occasions where the relationship between regents appears to be
that of a Regent/LT. It appears that originally a character could be both
a Vassal and a LT to the same Liege.
Once per Domain Turn the regent may assign a Lt to a Domain Action. The LT maynot be used for any other action that Domain Turn including responding to random event or going on an adventure. BRRB pg 57
Book of Regency pg 71 has a section on The Lt becomes a vassal
Putting these all together seems to paint the picture that a Lt can't be a vassal and can't run his own holdings. For one only regents had domain actions and a Lt could only perform a sihgle domain action in a domain turn and not perform any other action if he did including adventuring. This latter one would seem to place an extreme restriction on any type of LT being a vassal or even being a regent.
" Just noticed that these terms wern`t included in the glossary of the
BRCS, we will have to `fix` that during the revision."
Sound good. Were the aforementioned definitions the ones that will go in
the glossary?
GaryDuane Eggert
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