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    John M. Baker
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    Hm, well, I still haven't heard about strategy discussions, but these
    questions about bloodlines have come up:

    A person can lose blood strength by being a poor ruler. (Regency loss) Are
    there any ways to increase blood strength outside spending lots of RPs
    (the normal "spend RP" method) or bloodtheft?

    Can an unblooded person commit bloodtheft of a blooded person?

    Can a person's strength rating (tainted, minor, major, great, true) ever
    change? Does this rating really mean anything?

    When is it really wise for a ruler to spend a bunch of RP for a 1 point
    rise in blood strength?

    John Baker

  2. #2
    Gary V. Foss
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    John M. Baker wrote:

    > Hm, well, I still haven't heard about strategy discussions, but these
    > questions about bloodlines have come up:
    >
    > A person can lose blood strength by being a poor ruler. (Regency loss) Are
    > there any ways to increase blood strength outside spending lots of RPs
    > (the normal "spend RP" method) or bloodtheft?

    An Investiture spell is the only other way I can think of. I guess you could
    role-play some kind of bloodline strengthening adventure....

    > Can an unblooded person commit bloodtheft of a blooded person?

    I haven't seen any actual rules for this, though there are several examples of
    it being done by various creatures who became awnsheighlien. I seem to
    remember reading that one fella (the Ogre, I think) had his "latent" bloodline
    sparked into existence after committing an inadvertant act of bloodtheft.

    > Can a person's strength rating (tainted, minor, major, great, true) ever
    > change? Does this rating really mean anything?

    This was a subject of debate on a previous thread. Personally, I don't see
    much point in the strength rating description. After rolling up the character
    it becomes kind of useless. Theoretically, a character with a tainted
    bloodline could raise it to 99 after years of playing right? If you think
    changing the bloodline strength to a higher level makes sense than I'd go ahead
    and do it.

    > When is it really wise for a ruler to spend a bunch of RP for a 1 point
    > rise in blood strength?

    Hmm. Whenever there are enough available I suppose. This is really dependant
    on the campaign. Rulers of different size realms require a larger pool over
    RPs to back them up. If the ruler has a particularly low bloodline, I think
    they should spend RPs pretty quickly to get it up to some level where they have
    some chance of competing with more powerfully blooded regents.

    - -Gary

  3. #3
    Eric Dunn
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    At 11:48 AM 5/5/98 -0400, you wrote:
    >Hm, well, I still haven't heard about strategy discussions, but these
    >questions about bloodlines have come up:
    >
    >A person can lose blood strength by being a poor ruler. (Regency loss) Are
    >there any ways to increase blood strength outside spending lots of RPs
    >(the normal "spend RP" method) or bloodtheft?

    Not that I've heard. Good question though... would some kind of heroic
    stand--say a one on one fight with an Awnshie, possibly even killing
    one--but not doing a bloodtheft--might that increase it? Might the land
    decide that this person DESERVES an increase? How about a mighty defense
    of one's realm? Since poor leadership/rulership decreases--what about an
    increase?

    Excellent food for thought, Mr. Baker.

    (btw, my perusal of the rules about your following question, caused me to
    stumble across this reference, page 30, 2nd paragraph of the
    "Rulebook"--this passage is speaking when a regent has had children
    and..well, it rather speaks for itself, "This altruistic act normally
    occurs when a parent has gone on great conquests and gained honor after the
    birth of a child, and wished to pass the stronger bloodline to his
    offspring rather than allowing his powers to disappear upon his death." In
    an obscure way, it implies that a BL CAN indeed be raised--and it doesn't
    mention bloodtheft, or BL raising by spending RP's.--go figure)

    >
    >Can an unblooded person commit bloodtheft of a blooded person?

    I've wondered about that myself. The rules seem rather unclear on that
    score.

    Another reference: (page 31, the "Rulebook") "If a blooded character dies a
    natural death or perishes at the hand of a commoner, his bloodline is
    unaffected, and all his bloodline characteristics die with him." It goes
    on to say --"If a scion or regent dies as a result of another blooded
    character piercing him through the heart, the victim's heir assumes his
    domain, but the victim's Regency Points are lost." Yadda yadda, the slayer
    get's BP's, etc.

    This last passage would seem to preclude the possibility of bloodtheft by
    an unblooded character, much as I don't like it. Guess you have to keep the
    commoner's in line somehow, right?

    >
    >Can a person's strength rating (tainted, minor, major, great, true) ever
    >change? Does this rating really mean anything?

    I would say that as BL increases, the rating does increase, since it's
    really just an adjective used to describe the strength. Obviously someone
    with a BL of 100 doesn't have a "tainted" BL, though it may have started
    there. To keep it simple, use the "d100" column to figure the strength--at
    26 they're minor, at 66-Major, and 96-Great.


    >When is it really wise for a ruler to spend a bunch of RP for a 1 point
    >rise in blood strength?

    When they've got an extremely low BL score, or if they're near another
    ability roll. For me, it depends on what stage of the game we're in. If
    I've got a mid 30's Bl, what BR game is going to go to 35 turns? Since my
    breakeven point on the _gain_ on RP's would be 35 turns from when I
    increase my score (assuming I had a 34, for example).


    E

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    tiphareth
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    >Can an unblooded person commit bloodtheft of a blooded person?

    no.

    >Can a person's strength rating (tainted, minor, major, great, true) ever
    >change? Does this rating really mean anything?

    heh.. this was one of my big mass of questions [forthcoming]. i know
    exactly why you're asking it too. :)

    anyways, i'll answer this as best i can. no, it doesn't change, and it's
    only really useful to determine initial strength. the only other thing it
    does is affect the maximum number of henchmen a player can get; a minor
    bloodline means your charisma(/leadership) is counted as if it was 1 higher
    for henchmen, major means 2, and great means 3. they don't give a value for
    true, because there's no way to *have* a true bloodline.

    i know the rulebook says you can 'discover a true heritage later' or
    whatever it says, but doesn't offer any rules for changing strength.
    besides, since your strength category doesn't limit your actual strength
    (hydra has minor, 49 or something, and boeruine has major, 60), it doesn't
    really matter. does it? :)

    cheers

    - -nick

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    Trizt
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    On 05-May-98, Gary V. Foss (GeeMan@linkline.com) wrote about Re: [BIRTHRIGHT]
    - - More questions:

    - ->> Can an unblooded person commit bloodtheft of a blooded person?

    - ->I haven't seen any actual rules for this, though there are several examples
    of
    - ->it being done by various creatures who became awnsheighlien. I seem to
    - ->remember reading that one fella (the Ogre, I think) had his "latent"
    bloodline
    - ->sparked into existence after committing an inadvertant act of bloodtheft.

    This is based on that the original awnsheighlien desides that the slyer will
    inherit his/her bloodline. What better curse than let your slyer become what
    he/she had come to destroy :)


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    mg26
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    On Tue, 05 May 1998 14:13:31 -0400 tiphareth
    wrote:

    > >Can an unblooded person commit bloodtheft of a blooded person?
    yes with a blood silver weapon ,I would rule , all other
    means are useless

    > >Can a person's strength rating (tainted, minor, major, great, true) ever
    > >change? Does this rating really mean anything?

    well the rating means how close to the gods in mount
    Deismar your ancestor were , so no you cant but , I should
    think that what happens is one that is married eg Anduiras
    90 Tainted marry Anduiras 20 Great , then their offspring
    will be Anduiras 55 Major , so I should think that if you
    are lucky enough get the Child of Boerune & Avan marry and
    have a kid and Voila there you have a true blood line (and
    of course a new emperor)

    But do you think that they could pul it of?

    ciao
    Giovanni Garzelli

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    Trankel Al Ker
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    At 03:41 PM 6/05/98 -0700, Gary V. Foss wrote:
    >Trizt wrote:
    >
    >> This is based on that the original awnsheighlien desides that the slyer
    will
    >> inherit his/her bloodline. What better curse than let your slyer become
    what
    >> he/she had come to destroy :)
    >
    >The awnsheghlien DECIDES that his/her slayer will inherit his/her
    bloodline? I've
    >never heard of this.

    Perphas that's a part of the "invulnerability" conditions.. =)
    Trankel Al Ker
    Lord of the Brotherhood of the Black Tulipan

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    bloebick@juno.com (Benja
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    Well, these are going to be short, because I've got 126 emails in my box,
    and don't have time for long responses. So, here's my opinion on the
    following questions:

    On Tue, 05 May 1998 11:48:13 -0400 "John M. Baker"
    writes:
    >Hm, well, I still haven't heard about strategy discussions, but these
    >questions about bloodlines have come up:
    >
    >A person can lose blood strength by being a poor ruler. (Regency loss)
    >Are
    >there any ways to increase blood strength outside spending lots of RPs
    >(the normal "spend RP" method) or bloodtheft?

    No.

    >Can an unblooded person commit bloodtheft of a blooded person?

    No.

    >
    >Can a person's strength rating (tainted, minor, major, great, true)
    >ever
    >change? Does this rating really mean anything?

    No, and No.

    >
    >When is it really wise for a ruler to spend a bunch of RP for a 1
    >point
    >rise in blood strength?

    When the regent has a bloodline less than 1/2 the domain power.

    >
    >John Baker
    >
    >

    Benjamin

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    Gary V. Foss
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    Trizt wrote:

    > This is based on that the original awnsheighlien desides that the slyer will
    > inherit his/her bloodline. What better curse than let your slyer become what
    > he/she had come to destroy :)

    The awnsheghlien DECIDES that his/her slayer will inherit his/her bloodline? I've
    never heard of this.

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