Character Creation
Status
Increasing status is only ever a 10 XP expenditure, but must be justified by existing benefits and House Influence where appropriate.
Tourney Knight justifies a status of at least 3.
Anointed and Maester,  and the Priest wealth Holding, will justify a status of 4.
Landed, Heir, and Head of House will justify a status determined by the House's influence.
Secondary heirs will have a status higher than 2 only if Influence is invested as a House Resource.
When a character loses the influence or benefit that justifies their status, they immediately take a -D penalty to bring them down to their "new" status. This is automatically removed when the influence is restored, and XP invested is not lost.

Other Abilities
Increasing any other ability to a rank of 5 or higher requires 50 XP, rather than 30, in addition to the other requirements for raising an ability [time, a sufficiently expert trainer].
Increasing any other ability to a 3 requires 10 XP, whether done at or after creation,

Characters may not drop an ability to 1 for bonus xp - this is accounted for already in the rules with the various drawbacks that impose a -1D on abilities, such as Flaw.

Modifications to Benefits:
Sponsor - If your Sponsor is Landed or possesses the Head of House benefit, you may make use of their wealth holdings for personal purchases [castle forged weapons, cheaper mounts, hounds, bonuses to intrigue, or healing etc]. If you also have the Head of House of Landed benefit, then 1 Unit of your house may also make use of this benefit.

Expertise may not be selected for the following abilities: Fighting, Marksmanship, Persuasion, Deception, Warfare, as Expertise in these abilities is already accounted for by other benefits.

In addition to their existing benefits, both Landed and Heir will confer a +1 bonus to all status checks.

House Fortunes
Vassal and Banner Houses provide their benefit to House fortunes only if their own House fortunes modifier is positive.

When at war, each unit of troops raised imposes a -1 penalty on the House Fortunes Roll. Where this forces a vassal house into a negative modifier, their liege no longer receives the +1D benefit for their Vassal's allegiance.

Those houses subject to the taxation of House Durrandon receive a -1 penalty to Wealth gains from House Fortunes, and -1 penalty to losses to Wealth from House Fortunes.

New House Actions -
Shared Venture
When a Liege house rolls for house fortunes, if their vassal is providing a +1D benefit, they may choose to forego that benefit. The outcome of the House Fortunes roll, whether positive or negative, applies in full to the Vassal House as well.
Raise Levies
This house action may be combined with the wage war house action.
For each separate land holding that the House owns, it immediately recruits and raises 1 green peasant levies. Reduce the house's population by a total of 2, and its Law by 1. Increase the house's power by 1 [already invested in the levies] for each unit of levies raised in this way.

House Holdings
The Out of Strife Prosperity Supplement is in use for determining available Holdings, and the stacking of bonuses for House Fortunes and Increasing Resources.


Influence

Maximum Status is identified on page [107]
A Male Heir with 20 Influence Investment has the same status as a lord of that house.
A Second son or firstborn daughter has One less influence than a head of house and is an investment of [10]
Other sibling have the Lord's status -2, or of 3, whichever is higher, so long as [5] Influence is invested in their rank].


Power
Veteran and Elite units may not be directly purchased with Power [except for mercenary units]. Instead, units can become Veteran or Elite as a result of the casualties table after a battle.

Cavalry units are considered to be composed of 50 men and horses, rather than 20. Cavalry use their mounts athletics  and endurance[4] in place of their own when mounted. However they suffer a -1D penalty to endurance to reflect their smaller numbers, resulting in an effective endurance of 3 or 1 when mounted or dismounted respectively.

Peasant levies can be deployed as their own unit, as normal. Alternatively, they can be deployed as an upgrade to an existing unit that is neither cavalry or ships. The original unit receives +1 Athletics and +6 HP. However, once the original unit takes 6 points of damage, the bonus to athletics is lost, and the peasant levies are considered to be routed from the battlefield for the purpose of casualties.


Equipment and Combat
The Armour Penalty that applies to Combat defence is capped at -3. Penalties of -4 and higher apply to Agility, Stealth, etc. but remain capped at -3 for Combat Defence.

The penalty for being prone is a +1B for fighting checks made against you, not +1D.

Prone individuals cannot move more than 1 Yard as a move action and cannot sprint.

Intrigue
The influence damage done by the charm technique is based on Language, not Persuasion.
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Jousting


When jousting a character counts as charging, inflicting  a +2 bonus damage, and -1D penalty to their attack.

For being mounted on a war-trained steed, competitors gain +1B to their attack for each point of animal handling they possess. However, tourney lances also provide a -1B training penalty. In honour of the wedding, competitors will be granted castle-forged tourney lances by Ser Jasper, granting +1 to hit.

The attack roll is made not against combat defence, but passive animal handling (ride). So a knight with 3 animal handling and 2 ride would have a passive ride of 3*4+2*1=14. Passive ride is not affected by armour penalty.

For each degree of success, competitors inflict damage as normal, with a +2 bonus for charging.

The first degree of success also ensures that a *point* is scored. If either knight is unhorsed, he forfeited his steed, armour, and the bout to his competitor. If neither knight is unhorsed after five passes, the knight with the most points scored wins (but does not gain the horse or armour as ransom). Squires do not gain or lose ransoms during a squires tourney. In case of a tie, Lord Lyman nominates a winner.

The squires tourney will include 16 competitors divided into 4 rounds. The knights tourney will include 32 competitors divided into 5 rounds.

Players may make use of the advanced rules for jousting techniques, but are not required to.

A Lady’s Favour
A Lady who grants her favour to a knight or squire is championed by him in the joist.

She may spend one of her destiny points to affect a roll within the joust.

A squire wins a point of glory for any victory beyond the second (the winner gains 2, the runner up, 1). A knight gains a point of glory for every victory beyond the first. However, if a knight wears a lady’s favour, the second point of glory he wins always goes to the Lady, rather than him. If a competitor’s actions cause a scandal, some fragment of this scandal is shared by any Lady foolish enough to have granted him a favour.
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This post o be integrated into main Homebrew post on Feb 7 following discussion with players.
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Sinister:
The character receives a bonus to their Combat Defence and Intrigue Defence equal to twice their bonus dice in reputation, for the first round of intrigue or combat.

Tourney Knight
The character receives a bonus to their attack rolls and animal handling checks to stay mounted equal to their bonus dice in Tournamentsin both jousting and combat while mounted and wielding a lance.

Long Blade Fighter 1-
When wielding a long blade against an opponent not wielding a long blade, add your specialty dice in Longblades to your attack roll and other fighting checks. Enemies wielding a defensive non shield weapon reduce their combat defence against you by 1.

Long Blade Fighter 2-
When you hit an enemy in combat with two or more degrees of success, your attack can also be used as a manoeuvre action, if it defeats the enemy’s passive fighting.

Long blade fighter 3
Add you specialty in Longblades to your combat defence when wielding a longblade against an enemy of which you are aware. You may attempt the disarm action as a lesser action.

Under consideration for next story -

Berserker
Whenever you take an injury or wound, gain a +1B bonus to strength and dedication for the duration of that encounter. This can exceed the normal limitations for bonus dice.
If you would normally be defeated by the accumulation of injuries and wounds, you may take a DC 12 Will (Dedication) to continue fighting for an additional round. Each round the test may be repeated, increasing by 3 each round.


Weapon Trait modification -Powerful -
Powerful continues to add 1 point of damage per strength bonus die of the character, but this bonus is added after degrees of success (and therefore not modified by it).
When you hit an enemy in combat with two or more degrees of success, your attack can also be used as a manoeuvre action, if it defeats the enemy’s passive fighting.
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