For people who have played, how many games has it taken for someone to gain a new right?

I know I should be able to answer this, but I can't.   On the game do you only gain 2 xp per session along with end of season moves?   Am I correct, or am I reading it wrong?  Or is there another way to gain rights I haven't noticed?

No, I love everything about the Dragon Herald, it's the name "Dragon".  The class is spectacularly well written, and I love it's story changing ideas in awakening.  I just think the word "dragon" is to specific a connotation of doom compared to the word doom, destruction or its ilk.  Your game could be made its semantics and I should really stop talking about it, but the word I feel evokes the idea of Giant creatures, when you don't need those to have destruction, and doom.

I can accept herald of doom,or doom herald.  I like the word disaster, apocalypse, destruction something longer then just doom, but Doom will work much better then Dragon.

I say instead treat 7-9 as is.  7-9 The gods may or may not approve you don't know.  That's seriously awesome.   Ambivalence is great.  So maybe the MC does decide to answer or maybe they don't.  You don't know you have to make your own decisions which is the scariest and trues belief of faith sometimes.  Take for example real history with king Clovis I he prayed to god to win a battle, and he would convert to Christianity if he did.  Yet God didn't give him a sign he just kept fighting and got a second wind and won the battle.  He didn't know though.  Imagine that happening in the game.   You pray you get a 7-9 and you just don't know.  Well now what should happen, should the character risk it or not. that's a wonderful scene in game, and can make for beautiful decision making with fear and a lack of faith driving issues, however maybe the god did decide to help and in the end they do get the bonus faith is suddenly reclaimed and that leap of faith is there.  I think keeping it the way it is great.  Changing it to be too rules descriptive would take away from this decision making.

I like it how it is I wouldn't change it. 7-9- god ambivalence and a maybe almost.  I sure we'll do it type of thing.  It would be the freakiest result to get I believe and would make for great play at is.  Because now a player has to risk on trusting the gods.  I wouldn't' change it.

That could work, and is what I'm implying.  I just feel the word dragon is out of place.  If you are going to use metaphorical nature of outside unexplained forces.  Why give it a name that so consistently pops up in the modern culture minds as an actual dragon.

So a Common Topic on this so far is history versus fantasy.  I realized after reading everything that this game could be played on earth as in our earth, in a viking setting, or arthurian setting very easily.  One catch though is the Dragon Herald.  The Troll Killer exists because we always had in our past "giants" David and Goliath, "Cyclops" Odysseus, even witches "Circe and Morigan le Fay".  Monsters could exist they are just our imaginative comprehension of real scary things.  However, the one the doesn't fit much is the Dragon Herald.  It implies that Dragons exist.  Big giant unsustainable magical monsters, and pull us out of the more realistic harshness of the dark ages. 

Historically those times were considered an apocalypse because from the fall of Rome when some people went back and saw aqueducts they had no clue what these things were.  Priests were considered truly godlike because they could actually read.  Diseases were fought with ridiculous magic rituals that might have killed more then helped, and disease and plague were rampant.  Famine was constant, and the threat of the outside was everywhere from the bitter cold, to the lack of food.  In England they fought murderous Man Monsters (Vikings/Celts/Saxons/Picts) that Could attack at any moment.  In Eurasia they fought Centaurs "Mongol and Arabic horsemen".  Our world in the Dark Age was a land of Apocalypse, and I worry that the Dragon Herald removes our world from that and makes it a world of fantasy not darkness.

That said I think the class is cool, and was seeking for advice how to reskin it a little bit so it doesn't have to explicitly involve dragons.  To me the Dragon Herald is like the mad profit, or the witch advisor to a king.  They are the truth seer that nobody wants to like, but has to deal with "Beware the Ides of March, the Furies, Circe, etc.".  I want peoples advice on the following.  So seriously please help me and provide other examples.  My thoughts to make it more realistic is keep it exactly the same, but instead of "Awaken Dragons" as XP moves maybe instead they "Create prophesies" or "Change fate".  Make them more broadly mystical instead of specifically with dragons.  Any other ideas?  I'd love to hear.  These are my thoughts though.  Further if you want more examples of Mad Profits that remind me of a Dragon herald see the following:


-John of Leiden/ Munster Rebellion for mad prophets (listen to this for more http://www.dancarlin.com//disp.php/hharchive/Show-48---Prophets-of-Doom/Luther-Reformation-history)

-This one for good dark age lore ( http://www.dancarlin.com//disp.php/hharchive/Show-41---Thor*s-Angels/Dark%20ages-medieval-antiquity)

-This one for plague and death in the ancient time (http://dancarlin.com/dccart/index.php?main_page=product_music_info&cPath=1&products_id=139)

Though you'd have to buy it.  I'm obsessed with Hardcore History, and I plan on using some of themes in my game of it.