Skills in the Game

[Question]

You can opt to use lietenants to do any character action though,yes?Including standard actions?

[irdeggman]

You can opt to use lietenants to do any character action though,yes?Including standard actions?

A standard action is not a character action.

Character action

: Regents, like other characters, have personal tasks that they may wish to accomplish. This could include attending a festival, doing research, adventuring, crafting items, or any other normal non-domain activity.Character actionsinvolve only the character or a small group of characters, not the actions of an entire court. The main difference between a character action and a standard domain action is the scale of resources invested and involved; a character action generally involves strictly personal resources.

Court domain action: The regent initiates a Court action but members of the regent's court handle the details of the matter almost entirely. Court domain actions are similar to Free actions in combat, although they may be important, they require very little time or other resources and do not require the focus of the regent or the entire court. The level of the domain's court determines the number of Court domain actions that a domain can take per domain round. A domain with a very small court may not be eligible to take any Court actions and must therefore rely on standard domain actions to accomplish even the smallest of domain-level tasks.

Standard domain action: Each domain normally is allowed one standard domain action per domain round. A regent's standard domain action represents the primary focus or goal of the regent's court and agents for the domain round. The regent need not be physically present for his domain to take a standard action; only routine communication is required. If the regent is unable to communicate to his realm, the character's player should still be allowed to select a reasonable domain action for the domain that represents the court's attempts to maintain the realm in the regent's absence. A regent's court can be reasonably expected to perform the same actions as the regent would; a regent's courtiers make it their business to have a fair idea of the regent's opinions on important matters. A regent can spend regency to support his domain's standard domain actions, regardless of his personal involvement.

Full domain action: Some standard domain actions are so important that the regent chooses to (or must) personally oversee the action. A full domain action consists of both the standard domain action that is the focus of the regent's mechanism of governance and the regent's character action. A regent can spend regency to support full domain actions. A regent that personally oversees the affairs of his realm is eligible to gain bonuses to domain action checks due to skill synergies.

Every character (including Lts) gets a character action per domain round.

If a character combines his character action with his domain action (i.e., a full domain action) he gets to use his skill modifiers to influence the domain action.

A Lt may be used to perform a domain action instead of the regent (i.e., in his place) - then the Lt gets to use his skill modifiers to influence the domain action.

But note there is a limit to the number of domain actions per turn (3) and no more than a sigle domain action per realm may occur in a round. So that you can't assign a Lt to perform a domain action and you perform one in parallel.