Lieutenants

[Mikal]

Per the rules a Lt doesn't give you any more actions.

It will allow you to have someone else perform them for you. And by combining his character action with the standard action he can apply his personal benefits to the outcome (e.g., skill ranks, feats, etc.)

This frees up the regent to perform other actions like adventuring or research, etc. that may take up a lot of his time without having to worry about someone not qualified performing the domain actions for him (e.g. relying on his court so that there are no benefits to the outcome).

Exactly what I needed to know. Thanks!

[geeman]

At 11:25 AM 8/17/2006, you wrote:

>>There are also a few characters in the 2e materials who are regents
>>in their own right who were described as being LTs of another, more
>>powerful, regent.
>
>Not to be Professor Smarmy, but I think that`s more a matter of
>names than anything else. Like, I know I always just assumed that
>when they called another full on, domain-having regent a `LT`, they
>ment it as a synonym for `vassal(What with the giving RPs and all.)`
>instead of an actual coded `LT`. That seems to make the problem you
>mentioned go away, for the most part, though its certainly possible
>that some vassals might also have formal LT duties-nothing in the
>rules say you can`t be both, after all.

Exactly. It might very well be that when the 2e materials describe a
regent with his/er own domain as a "LT" of another regent they really
mean vassal... but why stop there? If LT can mean vassal why can`t
vassal mean LT? That is, both characters are regents, but one is
capable of acting as a LT of the other. Such a character would
probably have to dedicate one of his own domain actions to performing
the duty assigned to him by his Liege, but the point here is that
there`s no real reason why one role at the domain level should
preclude the other. The vocabulary in 2e just wasn`t standardized,
I`m afraid, so when it comes to these sorts of things we often can`t
be quite sure what it means. A regent might be an LT, a Vassal an
Advisor and/or a Liege (capital letters there designated the actual
role at the domain level rather than a lower case letter which would
denote the more common--or, at least, not domain level--version of
those terms) to other regents. Any combination is tenable. The real
question is how should those relationships be adjudicated and established.

Gary