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Domain maintenance and court expenditure
X-Osoerde (Alan):
The stability idea, particularly if the upper and lower limits of stability are expanded, could explain the tendency of large domains to break up. Or, why the Gorgon, never quite seems to steamroll Anuire (hard to do if you have a -5 to everything).
X-Haelyn's Aegis/RK (Andy):
I agree entirely on the "that's why you get vassals" point, but you could look at it from another perspective "in a large domain vassals are important enough to be a master in their own right" - if a large domain has no Vassals (big "V") then that indicates that the "mid/upper tier" of vassals (small "v") are so pitiful that no-one puts true faith in the vassals - which would fit in with a stability hit for the domain.
Every regent has vassals, minions of greater and lesser degree, these vassals become Vassals at the point that the lord is sufficiently distant for the people to see the Vassal as their "real" lord whilst the Vassal still accepts the "real" regent as master (the "story" issue which the Vassal mechanic is trying to reflect in my view)
I like tying stabilty in a large realm to bloodline because in my view it fits in with the "born to rule" aspect of BR, destiny conspires to weave fate's tapestry around a scion's life and the people instinctively look to scions for guidance and rule - if a commoner and a scion both have the same legal power, rights and wealth then over time the scion should pull ahead, and the same holds true between scions of differing bloodline - that is why in BR cannon all rulers are scions and more powerful domains and bloodline go hand in hand (mostly, and yes I accept that other matters also come into play, etc, I'm taking poetic licence for effect ok?)
One downside to the approach in RoE is that to a large degree the idea is "play the domain" not "play the ruler" but I don't see that as a big issue given the opportunity for bloodline inheritance - the bloodline effectively flows with the domain barring catastrophe or exaltation which sounds about right.
DM B:
Very interresting.
Bloodlines ARE part of domain. Your current regent is only a vessel for that bloodline. So it's conceptually sound.
X-WIT/Toreas Kharnmoin (Rune):
How does that translate to the non-landed regent domains where the bloodline wouldn't neccesarily be passed down?
DM B:
I'm thinking that transference of bloodlines from old regent to new has not been given enough attention with regards to non-landed domains. Now have we really taked much about how the Land's Choice might figure into it all.
So many permutations...
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