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    Seb Berendse
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    Trade routes

    Eric wrote:
    > Ok, this might seem like a silly question, but bear with me. All regents
    > can make trade routes right? You dont need to control the guilds in the
    > domain/province to open a route. you just have to have a road to/and from the
    > 2 provinces, right?

    According to me (but IDHTRbIFOM) this is wrong: in order to set up a
    trade rout, you need to have at least a (o?) holding level guild. Am I
    right?

    Seb

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    Trade routes

    Ok, this might seem like a silly question, but bear with me. All regents
    can make trade routes right? You dont need to control the guilds in the
    domain/province to open a route. you just have to have a road to/and from the
    2 provinces, right? It just seemed silly, that possibly 2 regents (fighters)
    set up a trade route, and neither controls a "trade" guild.
    I know the number of trade routes are limited to the size of the province,
    but it seemed funny that the regents wouldn't deal with the "thief/rogue"
    regent if there was one.
    Did i miss something there?

    Eric

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    rcantin@oricom.ca (Robin
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    Trade routes

    Hello Eric,

    The rulebook (p. 59-60) specifies that 'A regent who controls a guild
    holding can attempt to open a trade route' and that 'trade routes are
    neutralized if the regent's guild holding in either province is contested
    (...)'. I figure it implies that the regent must have guild holdings on
    both provinces in order to create and maintain a trade route.

    So fighters, or mages or priests can still have trade routes, but they must
    first have guild holdings, a costly endeavor since they don't award him or
    her any RP (the trade route won't either, see p. 41). Still, he can do it
    for the money, but then I suppose merchant rogues in the area will want to
    contest him, and we know how trade routes are vulnerable to contestation...

    > Ok, this might seem like a silly question, but bear with me. All regents
    > can make trade routes right? You dont need to control the guilds in the
    > domain/province to open a route. you just have to have a road to/and from the
    > 2 provinces, right? It just seemed silly, that possibly 2 regents (fighters)
    > set up a trade route, and neither controls a "trade" guild.
    > I know the number of trade routes are limited to the size of the province,
    > but it seemed funny that the regents wouldn't deal with the "thief/rogue"
    > regent if there was one.
    > Did i miss something there?
    >
    > Eric
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    Kyle Swann
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    Trade routes

    >So fighters, or mages or priests can still have trade routes, but they must
    >first have guild holdings, a costly endeavor since they don't award him or
    >her any RP (the trade route won't either, see p. 41). Still, he can do it
    >for the money, but then I suppose merchant rogues in the area will want to
    >contest him, and we know how trade routes are vulnerable to contestation...

    This brings up an interesting situation that happened in our campaign.
    Early on, both I (regent of Roesone) and the regent of Medeore
    simultaniously contested Orthien Tane (a leech of a guilder) out of our
    countries. Unfortunately, Orthien Tane escaped our clutches at the time,
    but later on, on a solo adventure, I did a little Roesonian extradition and
    brought him back (My character was rather upset at him by this point, seeing
    as how he had paid assassins to come after me, and nearly killed my sister
    Marlae in the process)

    Upon his return, both Orthien's blood line and remaining guilds were
    divested away from him, the blood line going to one loyal follower of mine
    and the guilds to my 'pet guilder' lieutenant, who is now my vassal. So, in
    truth, Roesone now owns 6 levels of guilds in Diemed, ain't life grand? :)

    Sorry for rambling about this, but I had to gloat somewhere :)

    Richard Roesone
    Black Baron of Roesone

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