Class Adpetness

[Gary V. Foss]

Ryan B. Caveney wrote:

> On Thu, 21 May 1998, Gary V. Foss wrote:
> >
> > I like flat worlds, personally. They're easier to map.
>
> Oh, indeed! But all you really need is zero Gaussian curvature:
> cylindrical worlds (or certain toroids) also have no distance distortion,
> and have this nice property of having fewer edges. This is the approach
> taken by many computer games.

You lost me right after the word "zero" in the above message. I'm afraid I
know more about water ballet than I do about cartography. More's the pity.

- -Gary

[Memnoch]

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From: The Olesen's
To: birthright@MPGN.COM
Date: Friday, May 22, 1998 7:25 PM
Subject: Re: [BIRTHRIGHT] - Class Adpetness


>Pardon me but could anyone answer my origonal question?
>
>In the Rulebook it syas that lieutenant actions CoS (chance of succes)
>is halved if the charachter class has not exprience in that field,
>example: fighter making a trade route.
>
>Who would not be able to "Rule" or "Create Province"?
>(Other than a fighter making a temple, etc,)
>
>Is "Diplomacy" a thief thing? or would a wizard, priest, or warrior do?
>
>"Lieteneant" CoS would be halved if looking for a diffrent class that
>old lieutenant?


Well, to make it simple, if the class gets full regency points (if they were
a regent), then they do not suffer a penalty to the Lieutenant action. If
they do not gain regency or only half regency, then they suffer the
penalty...

Memnoch

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[David Sean Brown]

> Who would not be able to "Rule" or "Create Province"?
> (Other than a fighter making a temple, etc,)

A couple of people have actually addressed this, but I thought I'd toss my
hat in the ring. AS far as Create Province goes, I thin kthat would be
allowed by any class.the ruling of a province is not class specific, at
least in my opinion (and jsut for some sort of back up, all classes
collect full regency for the ruling of a province, unlike for many
holdings. If you are trying to figure out which class to penalize for
attempting to rule a particular holding, check the table...if they could
normally generate regency from the holding, then it is an "acceptable"
action (eg paladin ruling a temple or a law holding)..if they couldn't
collect regency from it, then they are at half chance..


>
> Is "Diplomacy" a thief thing? or would a wizard, priest, or warrior do?

I think anyone can do diplomacy..being a particular class has little
bearing on how well you act in a diplomatic fashion. Although certain
classes may have advanteges depending on the topic being negotiated, all
should be (or at least have hte potential to be) equally skilled. I don't
think all the actions are menat to be grouped in to the "allowed" and "not
allowed" groupes..I think there are just a few that would be not allowed,
and mainly the ruling or creating of particular holdings, and the creation
of ley lines and trade routes.


Sean

[DKEvermore]

In a message dated 98-05-22 07:25:55 EDT, you write:

> Who would not be able to "Rule" or "Create Province"?
> (Other than a fighter making a temple, etc,)

Any regent can.

>
> Is "Diplomacy" a thief thing? or would a wizard, priest, or warrior do?

Again, any regent can conduct Diplomacy. If the character does not have a
diplomacy or diplomacy-related skill, you might decrease his/her odds.

>
> "Lieteneant" CoS would be halved if looking for a diffrent class than
> the old lieutenant?
>

I would say yes.

However, I would point out that in my own game I rarely enforce this rule,
unless it is an action that is really outside what the character could
normally do (i.e. what budding wizard will apprentice to a fighter regent
instead of wizard regent? or does that regent priestess to Laerme really have
enough business sense to also easily start up a new guild holding? either
case, the answer would be no.)

- -DKE