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What's the policy with dwarven title inheritance? Say, if a noblewoman's prince husband were to meet an untimely fate...
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Oct 16, 2015 09:23
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RandallODim posted:What's the policy with dwarven title inheritance? Say, if a noblewoman's prince husband were to meet an untimely fate... That's a good question! My immediate instinct would be to say that the Prince's property would return to the Prince's family, but I guess it'd be more interesting if the Prince's titles and holdings transferred to their wife (there's a historical precedent for this type of arrangement, but it's got one of those Latin names I can never remember!), obviously with the assumption that the Wife will bear a legitimate heir to take on those titles later on. Let's go with the second one, because if we do end up going Wife it'll allow for more interesting potential narratives.
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Oct 16, 2015 09:36
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Bad End-wise? Are we genre savvy now?
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Oct 16, 2015 13:06
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I still want to bear an axe.
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Oct 16, 2015 15:55
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Voting Wife, if we're going for politics over rear end-kicking.
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Oct 16, 2015 15:57
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Wife. Murder. New home.
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Oct 16, 2015 16:37
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Axe-bearer. We can find a husband later, and woo him with gold-plated orc skulls.
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Oct 17, 2015 05:49
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Oct 17, 2015 06:48
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Wife
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Oct 17, 2015 07:21
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Axe-Bearer
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Oct 17, 2015 16:32
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Apologies to everyone waiting for a continuation, I had one of those weekends. Seems like we're currently tied 4 - 4 between Wife and Axe-Bearer, so short of someone coming over to break the tie we'll have to ask the Die of Fate where our Dwarven lady's life lead them next. I'll make a longer post after work today.
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Oct 19, 2015 08:25
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Let it never be' said that we resort to unsightly gambling to decide our lives! My vote goes to Wife maximum GoT.
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Oct 19, 2015 08:37
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Wife.
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Oct 19, 2015 09:22
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Wife it is! We get the Clan-wise skill as well as the trait Dispute-Settler, which counts as a call-on trait (used to break ties in our favor as well as allowing for rerolls) for Persuasion, Coarse Persuasion, and Oratory. Also, who is our Husband? (I'm thinking Dwarven Prince.) With our character's life plotted, it's time for our Beliefs and Instincts! Dwarves have a special thing related to Beliefs: due to their Oathsworn trait, they get to start the game with a fourth Belief, expressed as an Oath. This has to be related to a specific character in the setting, and we also have to buy a relationship with that character using our resource points! Given our character's background as a Rune Caster, it might also make sense to phrase one of our Beliefs as something we have read from the rune. So, four Beliefs:
Instincts!
Once again, I'll let you people brainstorm as well as guiding the process a bit when suitable Beliefs and Instincts are presented.
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Oct 19, 2015 20:23
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Our husband is a warrior who lead his troops to a great and prestigious victory. He was raised to the Nobility, via our marriage, to strengthen our noble house. We swore an Oath to our lowborn lover that we would be together eventually Our husband will be King. The runes do not lie. The nobility is incompetent and corrupt. They will either change or die. The lowborn need help and we will give it to them. A dagger is always useful. We always have a hidden weapon on us. Always read the runes before doing anything important. Always haggle no matter the deal.
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Oct 20, 2015 04:24
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Klingtron posted:Our husband is a warrior who lead his troops to a great and prestigious victory. He was raised to the Nobility, via our marriage, to strengthen our noble house. I like this
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Oct 20, 2015 16:17
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I think it might be useful to know what we're actually Greedy for before we decide on the beliefs since they are a big part of virtually every dwarven character (resisting or giving into greed are both interesting). I know there were a couple options and you picked only some of them. Power, riches, beauty and maybe another?
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Oct 21, 2015 23:47
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Olanphonia posted:I think it might be useful to know what we're actually Greedy for before we decide on the beliefs since they are a big part of virtually every dwarven character (resisting or giving into greed are both interesting). I know there were a couple options and you picked only some of them. Power, riches, beauty and maybe another? This is a really good point! There are four things that Dwarves are greedy for: Riches, physical beauty, craftsmanship, and power. We choose three of the four categories. So, what we really need to know is, which of the four categories are we not greedy for?
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Oct 22, 2015 07:47
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With the politics theme, gotta drop physical beauty. Too many uniquely ugly politicians to do otherwise.
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Oct 22, 2015 13:04
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Greed for physical beauty doesn't necessarily have to mean our own personal beauty, does it? Could it mean wanting to surround yourself with beautiful things, like ornate jewelry and a stylish house? Because if that's the case, I'm gonna say drop Craftsmanship; we obviously want power, money goes hand-in-hand with power, and nice things are an outward reflection of having the money and the power. Of course, if Craftsmanship is the actual greed for nice things, forget I said anything, and drop Physical Beauty.
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Oct 22, 2015 16:30
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I'd say drop riches because when you've got power you don't need money. Plus, our craftdwarfship must be the highest quality.
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Oct 22, 2015 18:06
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RandallODim posted:Greed for physical beauty doesn't necessarily have to mean our own personal beauty, does it? Could it mean wanting to surround yourself with beautiful things, like ornate jewelry and a stylish house? Because if that's the case, I'm gonna say drop Craftsmanship; we obviously want power, money goes hand-in-hand with power, and nice things are an outward reflection of having the money and the power. Of course, if Craftsmanship is the actual greed for nice things, forget I said anything, and drop Physical Beauty. I'd assume physical beauty doesn't necessarily mean our own beauty, would at the very least mean wanting to have a handsome husband and/or lover, and craftsmanship would be the nice things, because otherwise one of the greeds straight up doesn't apply to most of dwarf society. drop physical beauty
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Oct 23, 2015 00:28
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Drop riches. A fixation with money will detract from our fixation with power. Money is a means to an end, be it power or beauty, never an end in itself.
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Oct 23, 2015 05:00
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Physical beauty is pretty clearly about beauty in others: one of the examples of an Obstacle 6 test for Greed is "Beholding a beauty in nature a Dearf can never attain: a perfect sunset, a perfect spark of a forge, a glitter on water, an Elf maiden's sweet voice." According to Luke Crane, Gimli asking for a lock of Galadriel's hair was just the result of him failing a Steel test because of Greed. 
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Oct 23, 2015 06:30
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We've got three votes for dropping Physical Beauty and two for dropping Riches, so I guess we're dropping Physical Beauty. Our Greed idiom relates to Riches, Craftsmanship, and Power. Also, I think what Klingtron posted in terms of Beliefs and Instincts is good: Klingtron posted:Our husband is a warrior who lead his troops to a great and prestigious victory. He was raised to the Nobility, via our marriage, to strengthen our noble house. I'm getting a good kind of Lady Macbeth vibe from our character. Anyway, I'll be out of town at a wedding for the rest of the day, so don't expect an update for a while. However, unless there are objections to the BITs that Klingtron posted, I'll be able to post a finalized character sheet tomorrow.
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Oct 24, 2015 09:22
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 Cliffhanger for the next season of House of Runes.
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