Proposal: Education!

**Pinkerton** · September 20, 2012, 03:32 PM

You may have your highborn children study in different paths. Each one will require certain amount of money so you may buy your kid the necessary equipment.

I will put one Path (I will be posting the others if you like it)

Path of the knight ; Requires 10 years and 50.000 coin. The mods will do a 20 roll. Depending in the number the boy will learn one, none or both skills related to "Knightship" (Duel and Joust)

1-5; He has shown ability with the Sword (Duel)
6-10; He has shown ability to Joust (Jousting)
11-15; He has failed to learn the ways of the Knight (Nothing, possibly a penalty)
16-20; He has shown skill in both ways of the Knight (Both Joust and Duel)

Then the mod will roll another 20d to see how skilled he is

1-15; 1 point
16-19; 2 points
20; 3 points

As you see it will mostly give you 1 point, simply because I don't think that unless you were a really lucky motherer you should get more.

In case that you roll 11-15, the Mod will do another roll

1-10; Nothing, he hasn't learned anything.
10-15; He is a poor Knight. -1 duel , -1 joust
16-19; He is a terrible Knight. -2 duel, -2 joust
20; He is a completely disaster as a knight and shouldn't be trusted to kill bug with a sword. -3 duel, -3 joust

Path of the Leader ; Requires 16 years and 80.000 coin. The mods will do a 20 roll. Depending in the number the boy will learn one, none or both skills related to warring (Siege and Field Battle)

1-5; He has shown ability with siege tactics (Siege)
6-10; He has shown ability with field tactics (Field Battle)
11-15; He has failed to grasp the tactics of both field battles and sieges (Nothing, possibly a penalty)
16-20; He has shown ability with both field and siege battles (Both Siege and Field Battle)

Then the mod will roll another 20d to see how skilled he is

1-15; 1 point
16-19; 2 points
20; 3 points

In case that you roll 11-15, the Mod will do another roll

1-10; Nothing, he hasn't learned anything.
10-15; He is a poor leader. -1 field battles, -1 siege
16-19; He is a terrible leader. -2 field battles, -2 siege
20; He is a completely disaster as a leader and couldn't sweep a stable with ten thousand brooms . -3 field battles, -3 siege

Path of the Shadow ; Requires 8 years and 40.000 coin. The mods will do a 20 roll. Depending in the number the boy will learn one, none or both skills related to being a rogue (Assassination and Escape)

1-5; He has shown skill with the dagger, (Assassination)
6-10; He has proven to be fast and agile (Escape)
11-15; He is a lousy rogue, and hasn't learn a thing (Nothing, possibly a penalty)
16-20; He has shown skill with both the dagger and to run (Both Escape and Assassination)

Then the mod will roll another 20d to see how skilled he is

1-15; 1 point He is a good rogue
16-19; 2 points He is a shadow
20; 3 points He is the Stranger in person

In case that you roll 11-15, the Mod will do another roll

1-10; Nothing, he hasn't learned anything.
10-15; He is a poor rogue.-1 Escape, -1 Assassination
16-19; He is a terrible rogue. -2 Escape, -2 Assassination
20; He is a completely disaster as a rogue and is afraid of his own shadow.
-3 Escape, -3 Assassination

**Gandalfus** · September 20, 2012, 03:40 PM

I am intrigued to see the others.

**Pinkerton** · September 20, 2012, 03:45 PM

I tought of two more,

The path of the shadows (Assassination, Escape)

And

The path of the warrior (Siege, Field Battle)

I also wanted to make another one (Path of Gold) but the only skill is Income, maybe if we added another one

**Gandalfus** · September 20, 2012, 03:47 PM

Path of the warrior is just the same as knight IMO. How about path of the leader?
+ siege, field battles and naval battles.

**Pinkerton** · September 20, 2012, 03:49 PM

Well, path of the "strategist", you may call it,

I was considering to have the Naval Battles in another Path, alongside with Looting, exclusive to the Ironborn, (Any outsider has to be a ward of an Ironborn family).

The "Old" Path! (Or path of the Old Ways)

I don't think that any other regions has the ability of "teaching" navigation, and the Ironborn could have another extra feature to make them more interesting

**M. Laveur** · September 20, 2012, 03:53 PM

Ok I maaaay like this better than my proposal :p

I think field and siege should be different from naval battles, though. Maybe that could have +1 sea captain and +1 survival at sea?

**Pinkerton** · September 20, 2012, 04:04 PM

Added another one

**Pinkerton** · September 21, 2012, 10:35 AM

Added another one

**Bonez** · September 21, 2012, 03:30 PM

I think this could be greatly expanded upon... Support and if you want help shoot me a PM, might do one up to see what you think if I get the time.

**Ganbarenippon** · October 02, 2012, 05:49 AM

I really like this idea, it certainly adds a new element to each character, without ridiculously over-powering some of them. More please!

**M. Laveur** · October 02, 2012, 07:02 AM

Should this be put to vote?

My only problem is that it seems to me that the risk of failure and having a character with a -1 or more is kinda high (1 in 8) maybe lowering it to 1 in 16?

**Adamat** · October 02, 2012, 02:10 PM

I like this, but Laveur is right. 1/8 is a bit of a high chance.

**M. Laveur** · October 09, 2012, 10:29 AM

Should we vote on this?

**Adamat** · October 09, 2012, 10:52 AM

I'd say we should.

**Pinkerton** · October 17, 2012, 05:41 PM

We need a poll around here!

**Trot** · October 17, 2012, 05:44 PM

One change I don't like paying so much, and haveing such a large chance of losing skills. It takes money and time it seems a poor bonus to lose up to three skill points

**M. Laveur** · October 17, 2012, 05:52 PM

As I commented before, in my opinion it should have a small chance of failure. I think the cances of losing at least 1 point should be decreased from 1/8 to something smaller.

You could make it so that 1-15 in the second roll gives you nothing, and 16-20 a bad thing.

Just a thought.