Lieutenants

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Alternate Lieutenant rules by David M. Everett

Ever since I first got into Birthright I have disliked the rules
for Lieutenants. I have always thought a lieutenant should
be like an internal vassal; Barons, Counts, or Knights
serving their rightful lord. To me vassalage as presented
in Birthright was only suitable for external vassals and not
for internal vassals which, to me, is what the medieval
setting is based on. To solve this I created the following
rule. I've been wanting to post this for a while but I've been
lazy .

A regent may have as many lieutenants as he has provinces,
or if he controls only holdings and not provinces he may
control up to his number of holdings. Each Lieutenant is
assigned to a home province/holding where he remains unless
dispatched on a special mission by the regent. Each province
or holding may only be home for a single lieutenant at any one
time. Any class lieutenant may be assigned to any province but
lieutenants assigned to holdings must be of the appropriate class.
Lieutenants may be blooded and control their own holdings but
are not required to do so.

Each lieutenant may take one extra action per 3 month domain turn.
This action must be in his home province unless he has been
dispatched on a special mission by the regent. Each lieutenant
may spend regency and gold drawn from his regent equal to his
blood strength or 5, whichever is greater. If the Lieutenant has
his own holdings he may use any GB/RP earned without limitation
and in addition to the ammount he can draw from his regent.

Regents may have as many priest or wizard regents as they like
but only one lieutenant may cast a realm spell per domain action
round. A wizard regent with three wizard lieutenants could cast
four realm spells amongst the four of them in a 3 month domain
turn assuming each wizard could draw on a seperate source
(within the regular source rules).

Each Lieutenant has a loyalty rating just like a province. New
lieutenants start with an average rating. The possible ratings
are high, average, poor, and rebellious. Normally lieutenant
loyalty has no effect on province loyalty unless the lieutenant
is in rebellion in which case the province loyalty drops by two
levels. If this descrease causes the province to go into rebellion
all holdings of the regent within that province are automatically
transfered to the lieutenant.

Increasing loyalty: Loyalty may be increased by a grant which
raises the loyalty one level per 5 GB. Each grant action may
only raise the level one level. Control of law holdings by the
regent allows him to ignore loyalty just as a province.

Decreasing loyalty: Grants may be used by other regents to
decrease the loyalty of a lieutenant. Espionage may also be
used. Enemy forces in a province lower the loyalty by one level.

That's about all I have so far...

Dave

[araqyl@spin.net.au (Jes]

>Alternate Lieutenant rules by David M. Everett
>
[most of rules snipped]

>Increasing loyalty: Loyalty may be increased by a grant which
>raises the loyalty one level per 5 GB. Each grant action may
>only raise the level one level. Control of law holdings by the
>regent allows him to ignore loyalty just as a province.
>
>Decreasing loyalty: Grants may be used by other regents to
>decrease the loyalty of a lieutenant. Espionage may also be
>used. Enemy forces in a province lower the loyalty by one level.
>
>That's about all I have so far...
>
>Dave
>
>************************************************* **************************

I personally think the loyalty of lieutenants should always be role-played.
I mean, a really faithful lieutenant wouldn't have her loyalty improved much
by a gift of gold, nor would such a faithful lieutenant have loyalty
decreased by a gift (BRIBE!) of gold. Again, I think it should come down to
role-playing (and the personality of the lieutenant - did the Regent recruit
a loyal lieutenant, or a backstabbing rat?)

Apart from this, I like the rules Dave developed for Lieutenants. I'm going
to download them, reformat them, and shamelessly use them in my campaigns
with only minimal credit given to Dave... *mgrin*

See ya,
Jeremy Scrimes
araqyl@spin.net.au
aka: Jes, Bolt, Araqyl, Jeremiah, Jeremy Hinoski.