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    [Birthright] More on Ruling

    I have been pondering the question of the ruling up populations in ridiciously
    short time frames. As best I can remember it there was a consensus among
    those on this who responded that ruling a province from low to much higher
    levels
    should take much more time than the rules actually require.

    It seemed to me that a somewhat smaller number felt that many of us can, thru
    sheer superhuman efforts hold our noses and let such pass once in a while but
    that no more than that. When the 2nd or 3rd domain tries to do this credulity
    is strained past all reason.

    My idea is to look at an area like Anuire as a whole. Depending on certain
    factors * the number of new adults in the region will increase by a certain
    amount each year. All other things being equal when those new "recruits"
    are distributed all further rule actions should fail. This would stop the
    ad naseaum ruling of provinces.

    *war,disease,pestilence,famine,weather.

    Now the order that the rule actions fall in could be determined by inititive
    or the best target rolls or the best actual rolls vs target. Resolving such a
    situation is IMO not that difficult. But this scenario requires that we deal
    with a population addition that is Kingdom wide.

    Most campaigns except the largest PBeM ones do not use an entire Kingdom. Anuire
    for example has; 22 Human, 2 Elven, 2 Dwarven, 2 Goblin, and 4 mixed race
    Awnsheghlien landed, regented, domains. What happens when many of those domains
    are not being played ? I can see two ways of dealing with this.

    You could say that the unplayed domains are neutral and neither provide
    population
    for domains in play nor take any away (through ruling themselves). In that case
    all of your new "citizens" will be recruited from either other players or the
    critical NPC's that the DM is running.

    Or you can play all of the domains on a partial basis insofar as ruling and
    population growth is concerned.

    That's how I see it. Any ideas or comments ?

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    Jim Cooper
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    [Birthright] More on Ruling

    James Donald Lail wrote:
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    > I have been pondering the question of the ruling up populations in ridiciously
    > short time frames.
    >
    > That's how I see it. Any ideas or comments ?
    >
    What I do is assign population 'point' values to each province, and not
    let regents rule their provinces up until a certain level is reach. In
    the end, a regent in my campaign can't expect to rule a province more
    than once every 60 or so domain turns (heh, heh), which equals about 15
    years. This assumes nothing happens to this pop. growth during this
    time.

    This seems a reasonable limitation on the rule action to me.

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    Eric Dunn
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    [Birthright] More on Ruling

    At 02:46 PM 2/17/98 -0800, you wrote:
    >James Donald Lail wrote:
    >>
    >> I have been pondering the question of the ruling up populations in
    ridiciously
    >> short time frames.
    >>
    >> That's how I see it. Any ideas or comments ?
    >>
    >What I do is assign population 'point' values to each province, and not
    >let regents rule their provinces up until a certain level is reach. In
    >the end, a regent in my campaign can't expect to rule a province more
    >than once every 60 or so domain turns (heh, heh), which equals about 15
    >years. This assumes nothing happens to this pop. growth during this
    >time.
    >
    >This seems a reasonable limitation on the rule action to me.
    >

    I still think this is assuming that making babies is the only way to
    increase the population growth. Granted, that is one way..but there are
    others. Gold rushes, offers of free land, advertising, etc etc. By
    spending regency and gold, you are helping the populace to increase. The
    thing to incorporate though, is where they are coming from, if not from a
    baby boom? Well, possibly by reducing neighboring provinces, regions, or
    countries.

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