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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 08:17:04 No.43347921 View Reply Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43347977 >>43348287 >>43348516

/tg/entlemen, I have a short query.

>Characters are nobles, kings, princes
>Leadership roles in their respective army
>Shouldn't have time to meet, hang out
>Shouldn't even spend time with one another
>Yet form a party together

How can nobles with responsabilities live like any party-based-RPG adventures?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 08:23:46 No.43347977 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43348056

>>43347921
World leaders meet up all the time. Hell, US Presidents spend like 40% of the job on vacation.

Otherwise excuses to meet and party up? Host parties or whatever, peace summits, trade festivals, joint military exercises, stuff like that where the presence of leaders is good for negotiations or national morale.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 08:30:44 No.43348056 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43348111

>>43347977
Let's say the campaign is based on a war in which every faction participates. It's easy to have the characters meeting each other because their respective army must fight together.

However, I don't find it plausible to have them, as leaders, to handle the ''special ops'' missions which would actually be a pretext for the real goal: let them be together for a good while, together on their own as a party, in the middle of a war, while still being important for their faction.

I just don't know. I might remove that nobility/importance aspect, make the PCs as nobodies. I just don't see it working.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 08:37:13 No.43348111 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43348127

>>43348056
You could still have them be nobles, just not the KINGS. Lesser nobles could still conceivably be useful for handling high-value missions that commoners can't be trusted to do (in the opinions of a ver nepotistic nobility).

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 08:40:17 No.43348127 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43348646

>>43348111
How plausible is it to have someone else rule while they're away?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 09:02:33 No.43348287 Report Delete

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>>43347921
A king or queen probably wouldn't, but nobles and princes/princesses could get away with that pretty easily. Noble families can be pretty large with the most prominent having responsibilities that can be shoved off onto someone trustworthy.
Same with princes and princesses, there can be a very long line for succession to a royal throne and the farther back in that line you are the less people would care about you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 09:27:31 No.43348516 Report Delete

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>>43347921
Simple, if they aren't the oldest of their family then it's likely that someone else takes on the responsibilities while they simply have a title.

That's basically why some works include a third Holmes brother (Sherrinford Holmes). Since Sherlock remarks that his family are 'country squires' the existence of a third (and oldest) brother frees Mycroft and Sherlock from the obligations of looking after the estate so that Sherlock can do his investigations and Mycroft can be lazy as hell.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 09:44:20 No.43348646 Report Delete

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>>43348127
Anyone knows about this?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 09:46:51 No.43348665 Report Delete

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>>43348646
I believe Richard the Lionheart's brother ruled while he was away. You can also have regents if the heir is too young to effectively govern.

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