The Rules Thread

**Honors Bastion** · February 19, 2014, 12:49 PM

I. Character Rules

Starting Incomes/Promotion Money

Weekly Incomes

Child Birth and Adoptions

Land Incomes for Nobles

The Westerlands

The Reach

Dorne

The Riverlands

The Vale of Arynn

The Crownlands

The North

The Stormlands

The Iron Islands

The Wall

Beyond the Wall

Traits

Feudal System

This RPG utilizes a feudal system in order to emulate the ranks and fealty in the books.

Lands
Westeros has been divided into it's many counties, each with specific incomes (see Income Rules) and levies, both in men and ships. The lists below tell how many men and ships each province gets.

Granting of Titles
Anyone who holds a title (ie is known as 'Lord' or 'Lady') may grant those under them titles an/or land. To grant land you must own at least two provinces. You may not promote someone to the same rank as you (ie, if you are a Lord of a House that owns two provinces, you may only make a person Lords Bannerman of your second province).

Fealty
Whenever a Lord promotes someone, the person who gains the land is presumed to have sworn an oath of loyalty to their benefactor. In effect, the Lord who grants the land still owns the land, and may demote you at any time. The new lord owns the troops and ships of the land he has gained, and therefore their loyalty. In the event of demotion, if the Lord is unhappy he may rebel with his troops. For game purposes, troops are always considered loyal to their direct lord (ie, if Lord Greyjoy grants Lord Harlaw the province of Harlaw, the troops and ships associated with Harlaw are loyal to Lord Harlaw), though are also sworn to the higher lord (in this example, Lord Greyjoy). In the event of rebellion, a dice roll is performed to find the percentage of men who stick with their direct Lord, and the percentage who fight for their overlord. This only applies to the bannermen of Great Houses rebelling, not in the case of the Great Houses rebelling against the crown, as troops owe no loyalty to the King, only the Lords from the Great Houses.

Castellan
A Castellan is appointed in the event that a Lord is unable to attend to their castle, or the noble family ruling that castle is removed. A Castellan lays no claim to ownership of the castle, incomes nor levies, and retains the income of his old rank (ie a Knight appointed Castellen of Highgarden would not collect the income of Highgarden, instead collecting his normal Knightly income). A Castellan may only call his banners in order to defend the castle, not to attack.

Men-at-Arms
Some ranks afford a character a certain amount of retainers, free of charge and upkeep. Freedmen have a retinue of five men, Knights a retinue of 50 men. Lords gain 50 men for each province they control (ie a Lord with a single province has 50 men, a Lord with 3 has 150 men, and a Lord with 5 has 250 men).

Mercenaries
Whilst on campaign anyone can hire Mercenaries to supplement their armies. You can hire mercenary companies or recruit professional standing armies from their respective threads, but beware of their hire costs.

Kings Army
The King at all times has a standing army of 5000 goldcloaks. This is separate from the troop numbers listed in the above land maps, and they are free of charge + upkeep.

List of High Lordships and Minor Houses

Westerlands

The Vale

Stormlands

Crownlands

Iron Islands

Dorne

Riverlands

The North

The Reach

Roleplay Rules

These are a few extra rules below that just promote fair game play or do not belong under any specific headings.

Leaving a thread
All characters who posted in a thread are assumed to remain in that thread unless they post a leaving post or after two full days of non-activity. This means that if you posted in a thread that you were there, and then someone an hour later assassinated you, you can’t claim that you were no longer there unless you specifically posted that you left before the assassination attempt was made.

Letting Others Respond
In your posts if they involve actions of other characters it is a rule that you must allow them a chance to respond and refrain from one post wins. For example, you cannot just post "John cut off Jimmy’s finger". You can however post "John went to cut off Jimmy’s finger" as you can see the second version allows Jimmy to respond to your action before you've done it (since you can’t take back a cut off finger).

Dice Rolls
All chance rolls (i.e. a birth roll, or an assassination attempt) are based on a D20, and have been done so that regardless of modifiers a natural 1 will always succeed, whilst a natural 20 will always fail. Thus a roll of 15/20 will succeed on 1 - 15, and fail on a 16, 17, 18, 19 & 20. All vs rolls on the other hand (duels, jousts, etc) are based of the highest score wins. A + modifier always improves the roll odds, while a -Modifier always worsens the odds.

Winter
Every year there shall be a roll with a 10/20 chance of success to see if Winter is on the way, and when Winter is on the way there will be a roll with a 15/20 chance of success to see if Autumn ends. Then the same process is done in reverse. It must be Winter or Summer for at least 2 years before rolling starts for the change of seasons. During Winter every character shall have a roll to see if they die, this roll will have a 3/20 chance for all.

Bastards
In Westeros there are brothels a plenty and it is known for men to have several Bastards within their lifetime. The surnames of bastards are as follows:
Storm for those born in the Stormlands
Hill for those born in the Westerlands
Flowers for those born in the Reach
Snow for those born in the The North
Stone for those born in the The Eyrie
Waters for those born in the The Crownlands
Sand for those born in the Dorne
Pyke for those born in the Iron Islands
Rivers for those born in the Riverlands
A Bastard may not claim inheritance, although they can if legitimized by the King.

-Aging
Characters age at a rate of one in game year per real week. At the age of 50 your characters will be subject to natural death rolls done each week by the moderators, the chance of natural death being 2/20. Every 5 years the chance of death will go up by 2/20 (Ex. at age 55 4/20, age 60 6/20 etc...) The character can see out the remainder of any thread in which he is RPing, but must die by the end of that game year.

- Heirs and Wills
When your main character dies you must post a will detailing the distribution of your lands, belongings and money within 24 hours of death. Only proper “birth rolled” children and other main characters are eligible to receive anything from a deceased main character. (Note that since you can only have one main character at a time, if you main dies and you have no “birth rolled” heir, all your lands, belongings and money can only be passed to another person’s main character. NOT YOUR NEXT MAIN CHARACTER)

- Main Character Slots
Players are allowed up to eight main character slots. Main characters are defined as characters with traits and income. Only six of these may be used on lordly characters, lordly characters being any character sharing the last name of a Lord.

OOC
No use of OOC information whilst In Character. Any RP suspected of doing so will be deleted by moderators and the offending player contacted. In addition, if you have a problem with a player take it to a moderator, not the OOC thread or the other persons inbox. Any OOC fighting will be deleted and the offenders reprimanded.

Freedman Professions - Sellswords, Merchants, and the Priesthood

The freedmen professions are professions only available to those who hold no other rank.

Sell Swords

1. Starting Up

2. Guilds

3. Buildings

The mercenary can construct some addons to their guild to assist them. Bonuses listed here are applied directly to your character.

Basic Additions:
10,000 Dragons, requires a Small Guild.

- Map Room. Plan your campaigns and battles more effectively. Grants +1 Field Battles/Sea Battles.
- Company Medic. Hire a trained healer for your company. +1 Survival rolls.
- Raven Roost. Acquire a Raven roost. Allows you to send and receive ravens, which non-nobles normally cannot do.

Advanced Additions
20,000 Dragons, requires a Medium Guild.

- Training field. Drill your troops for superior discipline. +1 Field Battles/Sea Battles, +1 Duels. Requires a map room.
- Medical Tent. Expand your company medic into a dedicated battlefield medical team. +1 Survival rolls. Requires a company medic.
- Quartermaster. An organised armoury and accounts process yields benefits. 25% cheaper weapons and armour.

Elite Additions
30,000 Dragons, requires a Large Guild.

- Drill Sergeant. A grizzled, experienced veteran retained for training purposes. +2 Field Battles/Sea Battles, +2 Duels. Requires a training field.
- Battlefield Surgeon. A highly experienced and talented man of medicine. +1 Survival rolls. Requires a medical tent.
- Recruiting Sergeant. A veteran kept on to recruit potential new fighters. Allows an additional 2000 men/10 ships to be fielded.

Specialisms
50,000 Dragons, requires a Large Guild, only one allowed.

- Master Scout. A quick, quiet, elite pathfinder. +4 to your own detection rolls, -4 to detection rolls made against you. Only works in the field, won't help you hide in a castle, for example.
- Master Recruiter. A true poet, attracting many young men to your company. Allows an additional 3000 men/15 ships to be fielded. Requires Recruiting Sergeant.
- Master Surgeon. This man could amputate your leg and attach a peg-leg before you'd even noticed he'd started. +2 survival rolls. Requires Battlefield Surgeon.
- Master Armsman. What do we say to the God of Death? Not today! +2 duels. Requires Drill Sergeant.
- Master Tactician. Apparently there is no such thing as a no-win scenario. +2 field battles/sea battles. Requires Drill Segeant.

[Mod notes:
Max skills therefore:
+4 battles
+3 duels
+3 survival
Without a specialism. Max you can get is +6 battles OR +5 duels OR +5 survival if you pick that specialism. It comes down to whether you want your character to be a good general, difficult to kill, or dangerous with a weapon, or you can pick the company specialisms that make your troop count larger or your company very difficult to track. I figure Sellsword characters should be the best base-stats fighters since they're professional soldiers. Nobles will have the money to kit up in awesome gear which a Sellsword will struggle to match with their low salaries.]

4. Perks

- Knowing the trade enables you to hire your men at half the cost.
- Being that you ARE a mercenary company, you don't pay upkeep costs. You may set your own hire price to the discretion of the moderators: a 15,000 man company would not take a 5,000 dragon fee.
- A high level mercenary guild represents a very powerful standing army, that could significantly augment any force and shift the balance of power.

5. Drawbacks

- Be wary of where you site your guild. Fuedal law means the local Lords may shut it down. (eg Lord of Lannisport can do it in Lannisport, Lannisters can do it anywhere in the Westerlands, King can do it anywhere in Westeros).
-- Your guild house does not cease to exist, you merely cease to own it. You can try to get it back through talk or steel.
-- You keep the standing troops you have if you lose the guild house, but cannot hire any other troops until you get it back or make a new one.
-- You lose all the perks given by the guild house if you lose it.

- Be wary of who your enemies are. Mercenaries have very few ways to increase their protection against assassination and virtually no standing in courts.

Merchants

For those with a smaller thirst of blood and a respect for knowledge they should work on becoming a merchant where battles are fought with words and coin, instead of men and sword.

Starting Up

1. Players start off as a Lesser Merchant: 36,000 purse and 24,000 weekly wage. There are three trees they can follow, and their Merchant character must start in one (and only one):

Landlord
The Lodging House tree. This lets them buy and operate Lodging Houses in provinces of their choice. They start off with a single Level One Lodging House in whatever city they want to be in.

Caravan Master
The Caravan tree. This lets them buy and operate Caravans. They start off with a Warehouse and 1 Caravan in whatever city they want to be in. Warehouse is mainly for RP purposes.

Sea Master
The naval tree. This lets them buy and operate Trade Ships. They start off with a Wharf and 1 Ship in whatever city they want to be in. Wharf mainly for RP purposes.

Merchant Lord, Unique Class

1. The class operates under all the rules and restrictions of the merchant class

2. The Merchant-Lord collects only 25% of the land income

3. The risk rate for assets in his own keep drop from 2/20 to 1/20.

4. They do not collect the bannerman stipend

5. Merchant Lords must be GIVEN lands by a lord qualified to award them lands. They may NOT start with their own lands (as in registering with them)

6. They may raise only half of the levy for any reason.

Buildings

2. The buildings and incomes are re-organised to balance the trees:

Rules
- You must have at least one asset of the previous level before acquiring one of the level above it.
- This is tree-specific: You cannot buy a level 2 Caravan without a level 1 Caravan. Level 1 Ships or Lodging Houses do not count.
- You may decommission lesser assets once you have moved up. If you have a level 1 Ship, and buy a level 2 ship, you are regarded as being on level 2 of that tree. You can disband your level 1 assets and continue to purchase level 2 items.
- You must start from level 1 on the tree if, for any reason, you lose all your assets in that tree. For example, if you own 4 level three ships, and all 4 are lost, you are considered "ruined" and must start from level 1 ships to rebuild your company. See "Losses" for more detailed information.
- There is a 1 week cooldown between purchases: your buildings start working for you the moment you buy them (and their incomes can be added to your vault at the turn of the year), but you must stay on the tier you are on for 1 year before moving up. (eg you cannot buy a L1 Ship and then immediately purchase a L2 Ship in the same year)
- Assets don't "upgrade": if you have a level 1 Inn and buy a level 2 Inn, you have a level 1 and 2 Inn, not just a level 2 Inn. You may need to delete your level 1 Inn once you buy the level 2 Inn if you're at your limit of ownable assets.

Level One Trade Asset
- 15,000 to acquire.
- 5,000 Dragons a year in income.
- Small Inn
- Small Caravan
- Trade Cog

Level Two Trade Asset
- Costs 30,000 to acquire.
- 15,000 Dragons a year in income.
- Lodging House
- Trade Caravan
- Trade Hulk

Level Three Trade Asset
- Costs 60,000 to acquire
- 30,000 Dragons a year in income.
- Large Tavern
--- Grants +1 to spy rolls for your Merchant in the city it is located in. Represents tavern gossip yielding information. These do not stack: having 3 Large Taverns in King's Landing nets +1, not +3.
--- Merchants can hide people or items in the inns in secret. If, somehow, their pursuers trace them to the inn a detection roll must be made, weighted in favour of the hidden player/thing.
- Lucrative Trade Caravan
--- Grants a private army of 50 Light Infantry per Caravan, representing sellsword henchmen/guards, which can be used as the Merchant pleases.
- Trade Galley
--- The Galley can be converted for use as a Warship, and its large size gives it a +3 to battle rolls.

Level Four Trade Asset (Only one allowed)
- Costs 120,000 to acquire.
- 60,000 Dragons a year in income.
- Whorehouse (Tier 4 Lodging House)
--- Grants +2 spy rolls for your Merchant in the city it is located in. This represents the prostitutes passing along information from clients.
--- Secret entrance/exit. Clients value privacy, players or items hidden in this inn get an escape roll if their enemies make a successful detection roll. If the hidden player/item makes a successful escape roll, they escape without being seen.
- Trade Route (Tier 4 Caravan)
--- Grants the Merchant a private army of 200 Heavy Infantry that he employs on his Trade Route. They can be used for other henchmen things...
- Organised Smuggling Ring (Tier 4 Ship)
--- Grants the Merchant the ability to bypass blockades and move things in and out of cities undetected, subject to a roll, weighted in their favour.

Guild Houses

3. The Guild Houses

You may only own one Guild House.

No Guild House
- Merchant can own up to 3 assets, all of which must be level one and all of which must be in his tree.

Level One House
- Small Trade Company
- Permits the Merchant to have a home thread, titled "Guildhouse of MerchantName, City of CityItIsLocatedIn"
- Costs 30,000 Dragons
- Merchant can own up to 3 assets, which must be level one or two, and must be in his tree.

Level Two House
- Trade Company
- Costs 60,000 Dragons
- Merchant can own up to 5 assets, which must be level one or two, and must be in his tree.
- Merchant promoted from Lesser Merchant to Merchant.

Level Three House
- Trading Guild
- Costs 90,000 Dragons
- Merchant can own up to 5 assets, which must be levels one, two or three, and must be in his tree.

Level Four House
- Trade Palace
- Costs 120,000 Dragons
- Merchant can own up to 7 assets, which can be of any level, and in any tree. Remember the rules about asset levels.
- Merchant promoted from Merchant to Merchant Prince.

Losses

4. Losses

Every merchant must take risks and suffer losses. For every asset every year do a 2/20 roll for loss, eg to burning down, bandits or storms. There are unique rules for building tiers for Merchants:

- You can only buy higher level assets if you have an asset on the same level or one below that level. For example you must own a L2 or L3 Ship to buy L3 ships, and you must own a L3 asset to get the L4 version. If you own a L4 asset you can buy anything from L1 to L3, though.
- This is tree-dependant. They need to be assets of the same tree.

- Thus you are presented with a risk: you can upgrade all of your assets to Level 3, for example, and make a lot of money. If you lose your L3 assets, however, you will have to start over from level 1. It may be prudent to avoid centralising all your assets to protect from seizure or to keep some lower level assets around. You'll make a little less money but will have some insurance.

- All is not lost. You can see that these assets have no build time: Merchants buy things, they don't build. If you've lost all your higher level assets, but have coin to spare, you can pay the L1+L2+L3 cost (15+30+60=105k) to "powerlevel" up the tree in one swift movement. If you decide to do this, you do not keep the L1 and L2 version of the assets: this is a fast-track back to higher levels for those with the coin to do it, getting you an asset on level 3 allowing you to purchase more level 3 assets at normal cost. Again, this is tree-dependant.

Final Remarks

5. Closing Words

Merchants have the ability to be significantly powerful non-state actors. Hiring or owning private armies or fleets, having the money to bribe or support/attack others with spys, assassins, kickbacks, paid-for allies, what-have-you.

Be wary of your power and of the Fuedal lifestyle. Lords and Kings might seize your assets if you become a threat: make sure you have well-paid allies in positions of power before you get involved in politics, and that your assets are spread out. Only the King can seize from anywhere: a business in the Reach will be safe from Lannister hands.

The Priesthood

Religious Roles - Structure and Pay

Religious Role Abilities

All religious classes will receive half the number of trait points usually allotted and will not be able to claim any military traits.

Septons

The faith of the seven is the most politically relevant of Westeros. Septons can influence the region they preach in. The small folk listen to the words of the holy men very closely. Septons can ask for one roll each year of the following:

Tithe
D20 x (.005 x province income) = the donation

Denouncement

Septons can denounce whoever they wish, but the position of the individual they denounce can make the denouncement less successful. A successful denouncement will give a lord -10% levy size for one year.

Minor Lord: 1-15
High Lord: 1-10
Lord Paramount: 1-5
King/Queen/Small Council: 1-3

Sermonizing (either to a section of a battle line or within a city to gain converts)
1-10 = failure
11-16 = 10% conversion, OR +1 modifier to battle roll for a section of the line
16-20 = 15% conversion, OR +2 modifier to battle roll for a section of the line

Faith Militant

Septons may gather warlike men around them in order to crusade for the faith. The militant side of the faith has plagued lords for decades as it attempts to bring lordly behavior more in line with strictures of the faith in a forceful way.

Septons may roll for the formation of a religious army composed mostly of peasants unless a leading political figure legitimizes the Faith Militant, in which case the composition of the forces will change. If the High Septon asks, a modifier of x5 will be given. If a Devout asks, a modifier of x2 is given.

1-3 = failure
4-8 = 1,000 light infantry/archers
8-12 = 2,000 light infantry/archers
13-16 = 3,000 light infantry/archers/some heavy infantry
17-19 = 4,000 light infantry/archers/some heavy infantry
20 = 5,000 light infantry/archers/some heavy infantry

Drowned Priests

The peculiar faith of the Iron Islands serves as an inspiration to do mighty deeds. Drowned Men may do one of the following per year.

Motivation

Drowned Priests can motivate the Ironborn to perform better for a space of one year through shaming and motivation.

1-5 = failure
6-12 = +1 to raid rolls
13-16 = +2 to raid rolls
17-19 = +3 to raid rolls
20 = +4 to raid rolls

Drowning
Drowned Men may perform a ritual drowning of any Lord. 10% chance of death, if successful, the Lord gains +1 stability for the year and +1 to raid rolls for the year.

Seaworthiness (for the year only)

1-5 = failure
6-12 = +1 to sea battle rolls
13-16 = +2 to sea battle rolls
17-19 = +3 to sea battle rolls
20 = +4 to sea battle rolls

Faith of the Old Gods

An ancient and mysterious religious rite that values interactions with nature, wisdom and knowledge. Characters may use a single skill, never both. Characters with a skill cannot be Lords or heirs to a Lordship.

Greenseer

Individuals granted extra sight. One roll per year only

1-5 = failure
6-12 = hazy dream depicting something of yearly importance
13-16 = A less hazy dream depicting something of yearly importance
17-19 = A clear dream depicting something of yearly importance
20 = A completely accurate vision of something of yearly importance

Warg
An individual with the ability to communicate with and share the bodies of animals. Any Warg that asks for more than one roll per animal to use per year will have a 50% chance of getting too mentally absorbed into the animal's psyche and effectively lose their human soul resulting in death, pretty much.

Inhabiting a beast
1-5 = failure
6-20 = success

Inhabiting a small, nonthreatening animal
1-5 = failure
6-20 = success

The Conversion System

- Each High Lordship starts at 100% whatever religion it worships in canon.
- Priesthood characters can do rolls to convert the populace. Conducting a roll in any province of a High Lordship will effect that High Lordship.
- Good or Bad RP of the conversion efforts will apply positive or negative modifiers to the rolls. As such, a well RP'd tale of a priest gathering a flock will be more successful than a barebones 'rolls please' campaign.
---- Once-a-week posts of a sermon doesn't count as 'good RP', make a story of it.

Requirements for Conversion

- A player trying to convert a High Lordship must create a thread called "Converting [High Lordship name, eg The Twins]" where, in the first post, updated track is kept of the %age converted and any army the player has amassed.
- Threads not kept in-date will result in rolls not being done or being done based on the information in the first post at the time of rolling, and not what is technically the most recent development. Keep the first post updated.

Penalties

- At 25% populace following a different religion to the High Lord's, -1 Stability per year.
- At 50% populace following a different religion to the High Lord's, -2 Stability per year.
- At 75% populace following a different religion to the High Lord's, d20*500 peasant revolters. (70/30 l.inf/archer)
- At 100% populace following a different religion to the High Lord's, d20*1,000 peasant revolters (20/50/30 h.inf/l.inf/archer)

Bonuses

- At 25% of the populace following the religion of the priest, Faith Militant rolls can be conducted. They cannot be conducted if your religion is less than a quarter of the High Lordship's populace.
- At 100% of the populace following the religion of the priest, the revolter army that spawns (as listed above in penalties) follows that priest's orders.

AI High Lords

- If the campaign is conducted in an AI High Lord's provinces, the following happens:
-- At 25% of the province populace converted, d20 rolled:
---- 1-2, the High Lord summons his levy and attacks you. If you have no army, he will arrest you, subject to an 14/20 chance escape roll.
---- 3-9, the AI High Lord brings in a priest of the ruling religion to fight back, and he will conduct one roll a year to counter-convert.
---- 10-18, nothing happens.
---- 19-20, the High Lord converts and +5 modifier granted to all future conversion rolls in that High Lordship.

-- At 50% of the province populace converted, d20 rolled:
---- 1-5, the High Lord summons his levy and attacks you. If you have no army, he will arrest you, subject to a 10/20 chance escape roll.
---- 3-15, the AI High Lord brings in a priest of the ruling religion to fight back, and he will conduct one roll a year to counter-convert.
---- 16-18, nothing happens.
---- 19-20, the High Lord converts and +5 modifier granted to all future conversion rolls in that High Lordship.

-- At 75% of the province populace converted, d20 rolled:
---- 1-18, the High Lord summons his levy and attacks you. If you have no army, he will arrest you, subject to a 4/20 chance escape roll.
---- 19-20, the High Lord converts and +5 modifier granted to all future conversion rolls in that High Lordship.

-- At 100% of the province populace converted, the High Lord summons 75% of his levy and barricades himself within his keep, and sends word to the Lord Paramount begging for aid.

-- If the High Lord converts, any roll that results in arrest is an arrest attempt by zealots of the religion you are supplanting. At 100% of the populace, he will send a letter to his Lord Paramount declaring his religion, but will not summon any levy.

Player High Lords

- A player can either bring in a player-controlled Septon (you cannot register a character purely for this purpose) to fight back with their own conversion rolls, or write to the highest ranking Septon in their area to request aid (eg if your Lord Paramount has a player Septon, or the High Septon if not. Players not of the Seven can simply 'bring in' a preacher of their own faith to defend their lands, but it is an AI preacher).
- Alternatively, the player can take matters into their own hands and attempt to arrest or kill the intruding priest.
- The Lord Paramount's Septon can go himself to fight back, or send an AI Septon who can do one roll a year same as a player Septon. The High Septon may only send player or AI Septons, he cannot go himself. The AI Septon will only do conversion rolls, and will not engage in any other politicking, raising of forces, or subterfuge.

Additional Rules for Septons

**Honors Bastion** · February 19, 2014, 12:57 PM

II. Game Systems

Stability

Stability ranges from +5 to -5. It is to be updated yearly in the stability thread. Every year you start off with a base rate carried over from the previous week and make your calculations based on what transpired in the previous week.

E.g. You receive a blessing from the High Septon you do not add +1 to stability until the following Friday rather than on the same day. Similarly for losses for example, even if you raise 5,000 sellswords on say Monday and on Tuesday you dismiss them, on Friday you will still record a stability hit. The hiring of the mercs was what changed your base stability dismissing them merely resets it. The positive will be reflected the following week when the absence of mercs mean the rate is different to the new base. Therefore you only update once per week, to make things easier for everybody.

Stability Level

Negative Stability Modifiers

Positive Stability Modifiers

Also, moderators reserve the right to add additional stability modifiers based on RP events.
Please list all the modifiers that will affect your stability. It is much easier for the mods to check your stability that way.

Please try to keep at least three years worth of stability in your post. This way the mods can check the consistency of the change in your stability level.

Everybody starts at 0 Stability when you first start out.

Trade

Trade
All noble Houses start with two trade routes at the beginning of the game and can gain one more trade route through building upgrades and one more by employing a player controlled merchant. Trade is conducted between two Houses in the game, whether it be two player controlled Houses or a player an a NPC House. However, trade between a player House an a NPC House will only be allowed for specific situations and up is determined by the moderators.

Each region carries a specific trade good which carries a bonus.
Stone - decreases castle upgrade costs by 10%
Iron - decreases armor/weapon costs by 25%
Grains - Increases levy infantry size by 10%
Furs - Increases land income by 5% and +1 stability annually (no double bonus, does not stack with fruit)
Perfumes -+2 Stability annually (no double bonus)
Superior Steeds - Decrease cavalry upkeep costs by 10%, Increases levy cavalry size by 10%
Gold - Increases land income by 10%
Fruits - Increases levy infantry size by 5% and +1 to Stability annually (no double bonus)
Armor - enables 50% of levy light infantry to become heavy infantry OR 25% of levy light cavalry to become heavy cavalry

The North: Furs
The Vale: Stone
The Riverlands: Grains
The Iron Islands: Iron
The Crownlands: Perfumes
The Reach: Fruits
The Westerlands: Gold
The Stormlands: Armor
Dorne: Superior Steeds

Trade income is now worth a standard rate of 10,000 per trade route. The five major ports of the realm have a standard rate of 15,000 (Lannisport, White Harbor, Gulltown) or 20,000 (Oldtown, King's Landing) from trade to reflect the greater numbers of merchants and trade that flow through these cities. Furthermore The Arbor also will receive a base of 15,000 due to the World famous nature of its wares.

Note: Your trade resource for the Andal Invasion Restart will be the resource that the capital of your Kingdom is currently. So if you have your capital in a province that is the de jure area of the Reach, your trade resource will be Fruits.

Note: Certain provinces will have access to an additional trade route due to their regional bonuses.

Merchant Trade: Merchants will still function as the outlined in the rules but they will also now have a new role to fulfill. That of freelance contractors who can add additional routes to a lord's trade for a set amount of time. To do this a merchant must be willing to use their caravans or ships or warehouse for a Lord's benefit.

E.g. I have three ships. I use two for my own private ventures (usual income generation) and I hire one out to Lord Serry for trade. This mean the ship will not generate usual profit but 10,000 dragons for the Lord less whatever fees the Merchants charges. This will benefits both parties, but beware, a greedy Lord may try to seize your assets!

Note, in order to prevent abuse, if a merchant character is created solely for the reason to add an additional trade route for a lord or a group of lords and he or she is not consistently played, then the mod team reserve the right to terminate the merchant and his contracts.

Random Events

Province Limitation and Hereditary Titles

Rule: No one Lord can receive income from more than one province. In the event a character RP's the addition of a new province to their lands (through conquest, inheritance etc.) they have two choices.
1. Name a loyal servant Knight or Lord of those lands, thus raising a new noble House.
2. Raise a family member to the Lordship, thus raising a cadet branch of your family.

This choice must be made (and a Lord named) within 2 RL days. If the player chooses option 1 then the province functions like any vassal province in the game. If the player chooses option 2 then the character raised will now have their own home thread and separate income functioning as a separate Lord.

As an addendum to this rule there shall now be certain non-hereditary titles within each region that a Lord Paramount can grant.
1. Twenty percent of the incomes for these lands must be paid to the Lord Paramount in tax, the remaining eighty per cent goes to the holder of the title.
2. The bearers of these title can be a Knight or higher.
3. The bearers of these titles do not form a noble house of their own.
4. These titles are accounted a great honor, but they do not have to last for life. Should a character be removed from this position (eg to conduct an ambassadorial mission) then the title will be passed to another.
5. LP's will create the home threads for these titles and will receive PM's from the players detailing upgrades bought and the changes in levy numbers etc. (Only when they are actually created)
6. Holders of these titles will be expected to purchase at least two upgrades during their time as wardens of these strongholds.
6. It is strongly suggested that Kings do not simply name another of their characters to these positions but rather use them to boost RP with vassal Houses. You may name one of your characters to such a position, but if it is for too long they may be removed at the discretion of the mods.

Only a ruler who holds the title of High King can appoint someone to a hereditary title. For this period of Westerosi history, all hereditary titles shall be created at player but he or she must get mod approval first.

All titles now give the same bonus of 500 free upkeep heavy cavalry (500 Elite Infantry for the Ironborn) along with the related income of the designated province.

Assassinations

The Ways to Kill
Anonymous Assassination

Pick your target
Be sure to have a good reason for the assassination. This reason must be relevant and not OOC based. Moderators reserve the right to reject any assassination request if there is no valid reason that you wish to kill the target.
PM a moderator stating: The Reason, The Location, The Target and the Items you wish to use. Any character traits aiding assassinations should also be detailed.
The mod will post the rest, detailing the attempt, whether it succeeded or failed (and if so, whether you got captured). Your identity will not be released.
The time stamp of the PM will freeze the moment in time. If a character leaves the thread after a moderator responds to the assassination request, it still applies retroactively.

Open Assassination

Pick your target and get in the same thread as them
Post requesting an assassination on your target. Ensure you post what equipment and traits regarding assassinations you have.
If possible and time permits, notify a moderator with your reason for the assassination.
The mod will post the rest (success/failure, whether escaped)
The time stamp of the PM will freeze the moment in time. If a character leaves the thread after a moderator responds to the assassination request, it still applies retroactively.

Secret Open Assassination

Pick your target and get in the same thread as them. They must acknowledge that they are alone.
From here, follow standard open assassination steps.
If possible and time permits, notify a moderator with your reason for the assassination.
A mod will post the result. If successful, you are free to leave. If not, an escape roll is done, in this case a simple 10/20.
The time stamp of the PM will freeze the moment in time. If a character leaves the thread after a moderator responds to the assassination request, it still applies retroactively.

Execution by the King
If at any point you find yourself imprisoned in the Kings dungeons, he may at liberty lop off your head without an escape roll. If, after 4 real life days of captivity he has not killed you, you receive an escape roll, weighted against you. For every real life day after this, you receive one escape roll.
If you have been caught by a Lords men and transferred to the King, you receive one escape roll weighted against you, before you are put in the dungeons. After that, the above rules apply.

The Rolls and Chances
Depending on your rank and location, the chances of being assassinated differ. Below, players are split into either Noble or Yoeman. A noble here is defined as: King, Prince/Princess, Lord/Lady, Lords Bannerman, the High Septon, Most Devout Septon, Lord Commander of the Night Watch, Commander of a NW Castle, First Officers of the Night Watch (First Builder, Steward Ranger), Lord Commander of the Kingsguard, Any seat upon the Small Council.
A yoeman is any man who isn't one of the above ranks.

At your Home (the thread you use to receive visitors)
Nobles: 2/20
Yoemen: 5/20

In a neutral house (any other home thread except yours and the assassins)
Nobles: 4/20
Yoemen: 8/20

In the assassins home (the thread he uses to receive visitors)
Nobles: 15/20
Yoemen: 17/20

Any other indoor situation (ie a RP that takes place inside, like a wedding)
Both: 10/20

An outside situation
Both: 13/20

Group Assassinations
If more than one person wishes to murder someone, the assassins may work together. Each extra person wishing to assassinate will add 1 to the chances of success. This comes at a price however, as groups are easier to catch than a lone ranger. If the group is attempting a closed or open assassination, each extra assassin takes one from the escape rolls, making it more likely you get caught.

Hired Help
There are options to help reduce the risk of an assassination.

Retainer (nobles only)
Instead of attempting yourself, you may opt to have a retainer (an NPC from your household) attempt for you. In this case, you must equip the retainer with any equipment. Note that retainers tend to be clumsy, so 2 is taken from the success and escape chances. If the retainer gets caught, you automatically lose the equipment you gave him, and standard questioning rules apply.

Assassin
If one is willing to spend some money, say 100000 Dragons, one may hire the luxury of an assassin, who benefits from a +2 to all rolls, even if caught. With the assassin, there is less chance of your identity being revealed.

Faceless Man
If one is entirely desperate, and will easily part with a sum of 500000 Dragons, you buy the efficiency of a faceless man. The only way a victim may escape from the Faceless man is by rolling a straight 20. Even then, there is no escape roll as the Faceless Man kills by poison, and leaves before the chance of being discovered.

Special Items
Certain items may be bought in the shop to either aid or discourage assassination. Details may be found in the shop thread.

Armour
If a target is wearing armour, the modifier of that armour becomes an anti-assassination modifier, however the target must have posted he is wearing armour, unless he is on a battlefield, in which case he is assumed to be wearing armour.

Escape
All escape chances after an assassination (failed or successful, unless it is a secret open assassination) start at 20/20 (meaning you will always escape). Depending on the situation, certain modifiers reduce the chance of escape. These are:

If using a melee weapon -1
If in a home thread -2
If in an enclosed area -1
Every guard present -1
Every neutral player present -1
Mods may, at their discretion, take up to -3

Failed Escape
If you fail your escape roll, you are at the mercy of your captor. If you yourself attempted the assassination, you may as well start kissing the feet of your captor and hope the King forgives. If you sent a retainer or an assassin, they will be tortured for information. The rolls below are for a retainer, for an assassin take two from the chances for each roll.

1-5 - Captive dies in questioning without revealing anything
6-10 - Captive dies in questioning but reveals the identity of his master
11-20 - Captive survives and reveals the identity. He may be used as evidence in court.

Battlefield Assassinations
If a commander is killed on the battlefield, morale takes a hit. Reflecting this, is a noble character gets assassinated on the battlefield, they cause a hit to the rolls according to rank.

King is assasinated -5 to the armies battle roll
Lord is assasinated -3 to the armies battle roll
Bannerman is assasinated -2 to the armies battle roll

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Forming a Kingdom

**Honors Bastion** · February 19, 2014, 01:04 PM

III. Military Rules - Mustering

Fleet Recruitment System

Naval Recruitment System:
We will now be using a new system to construct our navies on. Instead of a naval levy system, we shall be using a point system where players can decide the composition of their fleets. Each coastal province will provide a base of 250 points for a player/kingdom to use for their navy with Ironborn provinces providing a base of 350 points. The player is free distribute the points however they feel like it but they must follow some specific guidelines that are illustrated below.

Standard Ships:

Levy Ship: 5 point
- Can sail in rivers
Dromond: 10 points
Heavy Galley: 15 points
AOR Ship: 20 points
Grand Warship: 25 points

AOR Ships:

Lannister Carrack: 20 points
Oldtown War Galley: 20 points
Dornish Dromond: 20 points
Stormbreaker Ships: 20 points
Narrow Sea Galleon: 20 points
Riverrun Riverboat: 20 points
- Can sail in rivers
Sisterton Pirate Ships: 20 points
White Harbour Warship: 20 points
Ironborn Warship: 20 points
- Can sail in rivers

Point Restrictions:

AOR ships cannot take up more than 25% of your total point allotment.
Grand Warships cannot take up more than 10% of your total point allotment.

A player is free to change his fleet composition in between but do note that your fleet will be unavailable for use for 3 RL days after the composition has been changed. This does not apply if you acquire new points and create new ships using only the new points.

A general rule to all ships, each ship can carry 100 people. So if you have 10,000 troops, you need 100 ships to carry them.

A player who resides in a coastal province can increase his or her naval point allotment by constructing the following buildings.

Dockyard: +10% income, gives 100 naval points
Large Dockyard: 5% cheaper naval mercs, +5% income, gives 150 naval points (cumulative 250 points)
Major Dockyard: 10% cheaper naval mercs, +5% income, provides 250 naval points (cumulative 500 points total)
Military Port: 10% cheaper naval mercs. Provides 500 naval points Ships from this region can move 15 rather than 10 Hexes per day: for RP purposes your ships can be regarded as of superior construction giving them a speed bonus over other ships as their well-crafted hulls break the waves more efficiently.

Example

If a player has an allotment of 500 points, he can easily choose to make a large but weak fleet of 100 levy ships or create a small but powerful fleet of 2 Grand Warships, 6 AOR Ships, and 22 War Galleys.

Provincial Manpower Levy

The Reach - Total Levy: 60,500

The Riverlands - Total Levy: 54,000

The Westerlands - Total Levy: 47,500

The North - Total Levy: 31,500

The Stormlands - Total Levy 37,500

The Vale of Arynn - Total Levy 31,500

The Crownlands - Total Levy 37,000

Dorne - Total Levy 34,000

The Iron Isles - Total Levy 12,000

The Nights Watch - Total Levy 3,500

Beyond the Wall - Total Levy 12,000

Levy Compositions

The Vale: