Guys~

Well, after owning the campaign for nearly 5 years, I finally played it with my group for the first time. *THE* first time. Needless to say, I was very anxious and excited. Actually, I had to trick 'em into thinking we were going to play a "regular" DnD adventure- you know, that one where you wander around with your sword and your shield and kill kobolds and goblins till you gain a level? Yup, but I put a twist on it. It went as follows:

Me- "Okay Jer, your elf fighter is cool. Now roll for bloodline."

Jer- "Wait- what's a bloodline?"

Me- "Oh, its a Birthright thing. Basically, you role to see what kind of gods' blood you have in you and you get some neat powers."

Jer- *eyes light up with newfound power* "Ok!"

-we roll for his stuff (he got Azrai, btw)-

Me- "Okay, great! Oh, and by the way, you've inherited this section of Cerilia to rule as king."

Jer- "Um... okay. Why?"

Me- *eyes light up with DM cunning* "Its a Birthright thing."

And that was that. Two of the five elected to stay as regulars and act as the other regent's lieutenants but, after a couple of rounds of watching the kings battle it out, decided they wanted a bloodline and some sort of power. Anyway, I ran into a couple of problems and need some help!

The setting- Southern Anuire, and its 2nd Ed. DnD

Player:
Raygolas, Elf King of the Erebannien

Vorwyck Kindle, Dwarven Pro Temp King of Roesone

Syane, High Mage

Bran "The Brewmaster" Rumblebelly, High Halfling (is that an oxymoron?) Priest of the Impregnable Heart of Haelyn

Vydej, Guildmistress of the Port of Call Exchange

Questions:
1. A racial question. Is it "Cerilian" (read: fit the campaign feel) to be a dwarven king of a human kingdom? The story is simple: Marlae Roesone had a daughter and, at the time of her death, invested her power into Vorwyck, her dwarven lieutenant, until her daughter comes of age. The other one, Bran the Halfling, was the dwarf's lieutenant until he wanted a place to fit in- had to make that one up in the fly (he changed gods from Moradin to Haelyn so his character fit, but he kept the brewmaster title). Just wondering.

2. When the elf king moved into Aerenwe, he wanted it to be in his family for many, many generations to give him his elf kingdom close to the other players. I let this happen and don't regret it, cause he started a war with Roesone to take back what was "rightfully his"- Abbatuor, the last bit of the Erebannien. Was a great move, but my question is about the three provinces that weren't forest- what do I do then? Should I allow the elves to live there, in the plains, and raise the province level from 5/1 to 5/5 (ect.) to reflect this? Or should I turn it into forest? I don't know exactly how it'll change gameplay, so I'm presenting it to you. Which leads to....

3. The High Mage insists that if, in fact, those WERE plains with 5/5 or 6/6 then she should have those source levels automatically. I think it would make her more powerful than she needs to be. My question- should I let her be the only one with control of sources after (if) I raise these? Or should I let the Swamp Mage or Second Swamp mage have some free sources to fill in the gaps?

4. With the mage class, the High Mage decided she wanted to specialise (?) in Water Magic because she had Masela's bloodline. Is this also Cerilian? I figured it was because of the inherent natural property of arcane magic in BR but wanted a second opinion.

All of that aside, we had a wonderful three days filled with BR fun and, sadly though I had to leave town again (spring break ended) they want to keep it alive via email. I'm able to change these before we start and told them I probably would. Constructive responses welcome! Also, if anyone's interested, I'm going to try and keep this up in another part of BR available to read for enjoyment and any help the BR experts out there can give me. There is a forum for that, right? Not too sure.

Thanks!

Charlie