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AW:Dark Age / Re: The New Stats
« on: March 25, 2014, 01:49:13 PM »
I suppose I should wait till the new version, but is Claim Your Right gone? I really liked the idea of making unreasonable demands and forcing people to insult me.

thumbs up on separating prowess and war. Just because you fight well on the tourney field doesn't mean you can lead a charge, or vice versa.

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AW:Dark Age / Re: Choosing Rank
« on: March 25, 2014, 01:41:30 PM »
Very good point. I was stuck thinking Outlaw Heir to the throne. But there are lots of things one could be the heir of.

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AW:Dark Age / Re: Questions for people who have run the game
« on: March 18, 2014, 04:17:40 PM »
Thanks! I'm really curious to see how the game plays out for most people. The game provides all this great world building baked into character creation (which I LOVE) but I'm curious how games get the PCs all in the same place (or do they? Maybe they'll play out Game of Thrones style, with each point of view character off doing their own thing...)

I'm very tempted to try and get a bunch of people together to try a 'urban fantasy' game where all the holdings are in one place, so we have one sprawling city-state that different characters have claims over parts of.

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AW:Dark Age / Questions for people who have run the game
« on: March 17, 2014, 10:17:45 AM »
Hello people who have run a playtest game!

How 'big' is your setting? Did you keep it small and intimate (just the locations/holdings defined in character creation) or big and Game of Thrones-y (large in scope, lots of additional areas)?

Are there lots and lots of NPCs running around or is the story zoomed in mostly on the PCs?

What kind of narratives dominated play? Action scenes, political intrigue, gossip and social backstabbing, etc?

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AW:Dark Age / 6th Century Britain
« on: March 13, 2014, 05:42:48 PM »
Vincent,

I see a lot of 6th century Britain is AW:DA (the retreat of the empire, the structure of the competing religions), do you plan fictionalizing some of the prominent events of that period as well (the Plague of Justinian, the volcanic event of 535)?

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AW:Dark Age / Re: Choosing Rank
« on: March 13, 2014, 04:18:52 PM »
That brings up a good question; is Rank something that exists 'within' the fiction?  I was more presuming with three different lineage conventions no one can really agree on who is what rank.

I might think I'm the proper heir(or rather my wife is) because I'm old Old Blood and my wife is the eldest daughter of the reigning queen, but my nephew Prince So-and-So thinks I'm nuts (he recognizes Empire of Eagles linage system, and he's my wife's younger sister's eldest son).

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AW:Dark Age / Re: Choosing Rank
« on: March 13, 2014, 09:10:06 AM »
@Scrape: Yeah, I wasn't arguing otherwise. Wasn't arguing no one would pick a lower caste, or asking for any enforced game balance. Was just curious if there was any mechanical or narrative trade offs between the more granular Rank decisions that I might have missed, and there are (but as Vincent pointed out, I shouldn't expect them to be 'even' or balanced).

@Decivre: Outside of a game the peasant or serf also has to deal with things like 'not starving to death'. Life expectancy of a nobleman was a bit higher than that of a serf. Wasn't trying to say power didn't or shouldn't come with a cost.

Within a game I can't imagine life would be super pleasant for the rank 7 Dragon Herald hanging out with the noblemen either, his lack of titles and status is going to make him a serious outsider (and that sounds like fun to play).

Antisinecurist summed it up perfectly for me. With Rank comes more holdings, and that comes with more obligations to juggle.

Thanks all!

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AW:Dark Age / Re: Choosing Rank
« on: March 12, 2014, 05:17:29 PM »
Not looking for balance, more of 'trade off', and having lots of "wants" on a failed roll is perfect (and drives the story!).

While influence or power comes with obligations, the cost is rarely close to the payoff.

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AW:Dark Age / Re: Choosing Rank
« on: March 12, 2014, 02:14:33 PM »
@lumpley: thanks!

@Antisinecurist: I overlooked the downside of holdings and that is exactly what I was looking for (mechanically). With power comes more obligations, more things vying for your attention.

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AW:Dark Age / Re: First Thoughts: Fates
« on: March 12, 2014, 12:26:22 PM »
Thanks!

I figured not, too many other things seem to tie into Fates to make them very mutable.

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AW:Dark Age / Choosing Rank
« on: March 12, 2014, 12:25:08 PM »
It seems choosing a higher rank is better (strictly from "what you get")

For some characters (Dragon herald) I can totally see why I might pick a low Rank (playing a street profit instead of an aristocrat has appeal)

For other playbooks it's less obvious; why play a Rank 3 Outlaw Prince over a rank 2? Both are high ranks, so there doesn't seem to be an incentive to pick 3 over 2, and 2 has more fun hooks built into the backstory.

Only think I can think of is the higher your rank, the more people who have you in the crosshairs (you are between them and the crown).

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AW:Dark Age / Re: First Thoughts: Fates
« on: March 12, 2014, 12:05:38 PM »
Any chance we'll see custom fates, or will fates remain universal? Curious if different playbooks will end up with their own fates (either at start or through advancement).

Would love to see negative fates (not sure how they would work!):
I Will Die By My Father's Hand.
I Will Live To See All My Good Works Undone.

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