Skill Rolls:
- Skill rolls will be made normally, however, you may have an unknown plus or minus to your skill depending on circumstances. Making a Hunting roll on your own lands, with which you are familiar, is easier than on lands with which you have no familiarity.
- In certain circumstances, a critical or fumble on a skill roll might cause an immediate increase to a skill.
- Repeated use of a skill during a year could also cause a skill to increase, where normally you only get a single roll at the end of a year regardless of the number of times a skill is used.
Personality Traits and Passions:
- Like Skills, these can go up or down a little more fluidly than in the rules.
(Personality traits are designed to adjust based on your PC's actions. I will accelerate this a little as necessary.)
Level of Maintenance:
quote:
Poor: £3 to £5/year
Ordinary: £6 to £8/year
Rich: £9 to £12/year
Superlative: £13 to 20/year
Spectacular: £21+/year
- At the start, all PCs are Ordinary knights. Although it is expensive, becoming a Rich Knight may be of value, especially when attempting to woo women. Noble titles will require a higher level of maintenance.
- Once PCs get wives, becoming a Rich or Superlative knight is of greater value as it affects horse survival, child/wife mortality, and child-birth rolls.
Lands and Manors:
- I am going to change the manor income rules a bit (see Winter Phase post below), which will make stewardship more important (either yours, your wife's, or your steward's).
- Building up your manor will be an import part of the game and means of improving equipment and increasing Glory.
Marriage:
- Each Winter you can roll Courtesy and if successful, roll on the Random Marriage Table for a wife. Or wait one or more years and add +1 to your roll for each year you wait. This is considered a wife of your level.
- Alternately, you can game-play finding a wife of higher stature. The higher the prize, the more effort and roleplaying will be required and the more and better challengers.
- If you are interested in this second route, state your intentions at some suitable point, like mentioning your requirements when at a tourney and some options will be presented.
- Some of the scenarios will also have available women.