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Game of Thrones Rules May 6, 2023 4:17:55 GMT -5

Post by Gandalf on May 6, 2023 4:17:55 GMT -5

RULES OF THE GAME OF THRONES

General Roleplaying Basics

- A maximum of six main characters (characters that have traits and can hold land) may be allowed.
- Only the landholding characters within a family may collect income from their land.
- Auxiliary characters are limitless.
- Characters may commit suicide or die of illness (at the player's discretion) though abusing this in an unsportsmanlike fashion may warrant punishment.
- No powergaming, metagaming, godmodding etc.
- Generally we give three days of inactivity in a thread before the scenario is considered over, or until the players post that their characters have left the thread.

Dice Rolls
All chance rolls (i.e. a birth roll, or an assassination attempt) are based on a D20, and have been done so that regardless of modifiers a natural 20 will always succeed, whilst a natural 1 will always fail. Thus a roll of 15/20 will succeed on 6-20, and fail on a 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5. All vs rolls on the other hand (duels, jousts, etc) are based of the highest score wins. A + modifier always improves the roll odds, while a -Modifier always worsens the odds.

Other notes:

- All noble born patriarch characters start with a retinue/bodyguard of 50 knights.
- Lord Paramounts and Kings have this retinue increases to 100 men. These troops never disband, but can be killed in battle.

Basics for Roleplaying in ASOIAF:

Westeros is held together by a simplified form of the Feudal system that existed in Europe during the Middle Ages. Simply put, the King rules over the Lords Paramount of the Seven Kingdoms, whom in turn rule over their own bannermen, who in turn have petty lords and knights sworn to them.

Despite the split into regions, there is nothing resembling a nation-state in Westeros. There is however some form of regional identity in which a Vale Lord will describe himself as a Vale Lord, but with the exception of the North, Iron Islands and Dorne, Lords to not tend to hold much loyalty specifically to regional identity. Even in the highlighted instances, this is more to do with shared culture and religion (Northmen find common ground in their worship of the Old Gods, Ironborn in the Drowned God and the Old Way, etc) and their loyalty to the ruling dynasty which usually date back to the pre-Targaryen era.

Feudal Lords regard their liege to be a fellow Lord to whom they owe an obligation. Feudalism operates as an intricate series of agreements held together largely by honour and marriage. Lords regularly see each other as rivals or foes and disputes within regions and between regions are common. A Lord Paramount maintains political control over his lands through marriages and through relying on the social norms that feudalism encourages, such as the giving of oaths. Every lord in Westeros has an oath of loyalty and obligation to their liege as well as to the King. These oaths are inherited by each party, creating a long successive continuity of oaths being sworn between the vassal house and the liege house. This creates a sense of dynastic continuity: though vassals may revolt or seek the overthrow of their liege, it would be most common in those situations to look for a successor of the same line. For example, a rebellion against a tyrant Lord Arryn would, if successful, often result in another (more just, or more controllable by his vassals) Arryn being installed as Lord. It would be highly unpopular and dangerous for a usurper to take control of a region in which they have no ties to the former ruling house, and would almost certainly result in rebellion.

A feudal lord who does not overtax or overburden his vassals, and who respects their autonomy, will find it easy to maintain power and loyalty. A feudal lord who weighs heavily on his vassals and often meddles will find they may move against him.

Granting of Titles
Anyone who holds a title (ie is known as 'Lord' or 'Lady') may grant those under them titles an/or land. To grant land you must construct or otherwise obtain a castle to grant to a vassal. This person will become your vassal in turn.

Fealty
Whenever a Lord promotes someone, the person who gains the land is presumed to have sworn an oath of loyalty to their benefactor. In effect, the Lord who grants the land still owns the land, and may revoke these lands from you at any time. The new lord owns the troops and ships of the land he has gained, and therefore their loyalty. In the event of demotion, if the Lord is unhappy he may rebel with his troops. For game purposes, troops are always considered loyal to their direct lord. The loyalty of NPC bannermen may be subject to rolls at the discretion of the moderator.

Life and Death

The medieval world is rife with disease and untimely death, with infant mortality and an early grave being common thanks to most serious diseases being nigh untreatable. A character ages at a rate of 1 year per in game week, and will, at some point, be subject to various death rolls. These can be divided into two categories: child death rolls (representing the high infant mortality rate) and adult death rolls (representing the low life expectancy of a typical adult)
An important note: all roles, considering Life and Death, will be rolled on discord. Players may do so by their own hand with moderation monitoring the channels.

Child Death Rolls

Newly born children have a death roll every five years of their life, up until the age of 15. The chance of death begins at 3/20, gradually scaling down by 1 each time (so that the chance of death is 1/20 by the time the child is on her/his third roll).

Siring Children

ATTENTION:
Players MUST post the current ages of the two would-be parents.

Order of rolls:
Conception: d20
Birth: d100 and d50
Defects: d20
Gifts: d100

Conception
Roll a d20. 15-20 is a successful copulation. +resilience stats for the woman increases chance of conception. Age can have an impact on the conception chance, down to mod discretion.
You can only have one successful childbirth every year. If you fail at conception, you may try again in 2 RL days.
If successful at conceiving a child, the child will be born during that calendar year.

Birth Roll
At that point (or earlier if you like), ask for a childbirth roll. This is one d100 to determine gender, 1-50 is a boy, 51-100 is a girl; and then a d50 to determine the outcome of the birth: 1-4 is dead mother and child, 5 is a surviving child but dead mother, 6-10 is a stillbirth. 11-50 are perfectly fine births. Each point of resilience equals +2 to birth rolls. Advanced age may cause a malus.

Birth Defects
If the child survived, we roll a d20, to see if they have any defects. The age of the mother also comes in as a factor.

Roll a d20. Subtract penalties from the age of the parents if applicable.
1-5 result is a child born with an abnormality of some sort, which sends you to the second roll.
If you got a 1-5 and the child has a defect, the mod will choose a condition for the child (or let the player). Depending on the condition, it will have moderate to severe effects in life.
1-5. Physiological defect. -3 to resilience.
6-10. Physical defect. -3 charisma.
11-15. Developmental defect. -3 to intelligence.

Birth Gifts
Lastly, there are gifts. Roll a d100.
96-100 is a child of destiny; they receive +6 trait points upon turning 16.
91-95 is a genius child; they receive +3 to any non physical traits on turning 16
86-90 is a smart child; they receive +2 to any non physical traits on turning 16.
81-85 is a strong child; they receive +2 warfare on turning 16.
61-80 is a healthy child; they receive +1 warfare on turning 16.
1-60 is no gift.

Gifts may counteract a defect, cancelling it out. Ex. rolling a a physical deformity but then getting the gift of strength cancels both out - the child is fine, never was born with defects, nor a gift.

Special Rule for marriages (incestuous or not) involving the Targaryen Family
As a wise man once said, the Seven, over time, eventually flipped a coin to see if a child, born of the Targaryens, would be a madman or a genius.
When a birth roll is requested by an incestuous couple of the Targaryen dynasty, a coin is flipped. Heads mean a gift roll while tails mean a defect gift roll.
If one parent is Targaryen and the other isn't, there is a 1/4 (15/20) chance of this happening. If it does happen, a coin is flipped.

Wargs, Greenseers and Dragon Dreamers:

Children born from at least one parent of First Men/Old Gods have the blood of the Children of the Forest running through their veins, and as such have a chance to be born with their ancient powers of foresight and skin-changing. A genius, strong, golden-god or ‘gifted’ child has a chance to be a skinchanger, greenseer, or both, with an additional d20 rolled to determine if they are born with these gifts. 10-15 is Skinchanger, 16-19 is Greenseer, and a 20 means the child is both.
A child born to a skinchanger or greenseer simply has a coinflip roll to see if they inherit their parent’s gifts.

A skinchanger may acquire familiars (through RP) that may enhance their stats. For example, all of Eddard Stark’s children bonded with a Direwolf that they ‘slip’ inside the skin of when they dream. Skin-Changing is a difficult skill to master, but the most powerful skin-changers can control multiple animals at once and are even capable of shifting into less mentally capable humans for periods of time. When a skin-changer ‘dies’ their conscience slips into their familiar.

A Greenseer has the ability to see past, present, and future through the eyes of the Weirwoods. Their abilities are numerous but difficult to control and master, and only the most practiced Greenseers are able to accurately control their visions. However these visions are a very potent tool and may be used to a character’s advantage, granting stat bonuses and foreknowledge of some events. This functionally works the same for Dragon Dreamers, except this is for Targaryens only.

NB: All of the benefits from these abilities are moderator determined. Do not assume any of the above without a moderator’s explicit approval.

Last Edit: Jun 6, 2023 15:56:12 GMT -5 by Gandalf

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Game of Thrones Rules May 6, 2023 4:57:14 GMT -5

Post by Gandalf on May 6, 2023 4:57:14 GMT -5

Creating Your Character

Your character's abilities are divided into base five stats. Warfare, Charisma, Subterfuge, Command and Perception. How well they perform certain actions and in certain situations is based on these stats. For instance, a character with high Warfare will do better in personal combat whereas a character with high charisma will be a better politician. These points are distributed through your signup sheet. You have six points to distribute between stats, with a max of +3 in any one stat. Having zero in a stat does not mean your character is deficient in this field, merely that they are average.

Warfare - This skill pertains to your ability in combat, with sword and lance. Female characters can trade these points for Resilience.
Charisma - This skill pertains to your ability to win others to your side, whether through innate charisma or strength of rhetoric.
Subterfuge - This skill pertains to your ability to operate unseen, managing networks of spies and orchestrating clandestine operations.
Command - governs actions pertaining to battlefield leadership, such as how effective you are as a strategist and tactician.
Perception - This skill is your characters ability to understand a situation as it unfolds before them. You may request a perception check at any time.

The Economy

Budgets and Focuses

Province income (or budget) is split into three categories:

Poor: 5000

Medium: 10,000

Wealthy: 15,000

Those who hold more than one province get full income for their primary province and half for their secondary; for example, Ramsay Bolton gets 15,000 from Winterfell, but only 2500 from the Hornwood.

Each house will be given a provincial income (or budget) that can be spent on a IC year basis. This money is your annual income, and is used to purchase focuses that offer a variety of bonuses. There is no obligation to use this money unless you have to or want to. There will be adjustments made at moderation discretion, such as some houses, that hold more than one holding, may gain extra money for their budgets based on this. Other times it may be a house has gone downhill and so loses budget showing this decline which can be vice versa (poor house to a greater budget due to climb).

Focuses:

As many of these can be chosen as you have the money for. They last for the entire game until you choose to get rid of them, meaning that if you wanted you could choose your focus at game start and not have to adjust them (or your finances) for the remainder of the game. The minimum time a focus has to be kept once bought is one in game year. The base focus cost is 5000 Dragons, paid per annum.

Levy Focus: Improves levy call up rolls by 5.

Forced Marching Focus: Grants an extra hex per day of movement points.

Siege Focus: Gives improved siege weapons to attacking armies, such as catapults or trebuchets, which create breaches in castle walls and improve siege attack rolls by 4.

Shipbuilding Focus: Allows the player to construct a random number and composition of ships (subject to rolls) once per year.

Intelligence Focus: Enables the establishment of spy networks in a lord or ruler’s court. One spy network may be established per in-game year.

Defensive Focus: Increases siege holdout time by 3 IRL days and siege defence rolls by 2.

Buildings:

Castle: Costs 5000 dragons. Takes 1 year to construct. Can garrison up to five thousand men, and grants the standard castle defence bonus.

Trade Market: Costs 5000 Dragons. Increases income by 10% p/a.

Military Port: Costs 5000 dragons. Allows the construction of 1-5 warships per year (roll dependent).

Last Edit: May 8, 2023 15:35:18 GMT -5 by Gandalf

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Game of Thrones Rules May 7, 2023 4:16:01 GMT -5

Post by Gandalf on May 7, 2023 4:16:01 GMT -5

Military and Battle (Part 1)

Duels
A duel is decided by whether players are dismounted or mounted, though both are modified by the same skill, Warfare. Whoever’s rolls highest on a d20 strikes the first blow.

The stats are as follows:
Base HP for an adult male in armour is 30.

Base damage for an adult male is your warfare stat + weapon score.

Weapon score for a standard steel weapon is 5. For a Valyrian Steel blade it is 6.
Armour score for an adult armoured knight is 10.

A d20 ‘hit’ roll is performed by both PCs, which has to be over the other PCs armour score (AS) to hit. Each point of warfare reduces this threshold by 1.
A natural 20 is a critical, dealing double damage.
To calculate damage, the moderator rolls two dice corresponding to your weapon score+warfare stat.

Then Roll "rounds" as so:

R1: Robert rolls a 20, then 2 5s, striking Rhaegar with a critical hit, dealing 20 damage ((2*5)*2)
Rhaegar rolls 15, then 3 and 3, striking Robert with 6 damage.

You keep doing these "rounds" until one player dies, submits, or otherwise "loses" when their HP reaches 0. The ‘winner’ of each round takes half damage. If the rolls are even then no damage is dealt.

If having lost a lethal duel, the loser can attempt to perform a death saving throw to escape the fight with their life. The default chance for this is 3/20, but can be subject to moderation discretion. If they fail, they are at the mercy of the victor.

In a normal tourney, unless otherwise stated, characters are given equal armor and weapons.

Victory in duels and personal combat may reward warfare points depending on moderator discretion.

Levy Rules

A Lord Paramount can order a muster roll range of 25 to 50 (representing 25% and 50% range). What is rolled determines how much of the manpower is levied. Ex: North rolls 25%, gets 10,000 out of 40,000 manpower for its army to use. Only a maximum of 75% of a regions original manpower can be in the field at one time. Muster rolls can only be conducted once per year. Mustering levies takes an entire day.

This will more accurately represent medieval warfare in terms of the full force never being present, represent the abstract property of money (ex: the LP and noblemen of the North only had the money, available, to levy 10,000 troops at that time), and ensure that there are troops available to levy in the defense of any Seven Kingdom if they are invaded.

Muster rolls do not affect raising personal levies. Player High Lords and Minor Lords can raise as many men from their lordship as they choose.

Levy Composition
Each levy, from the Stormlands, the Vale, the Riverlands, the Reach, the Westerlands, and the Crownlands, are pre-arranged, according to the composition below, for all the Seven Kingdoms, save the North, the Iron Islands, and Dorne:

20% Archers
60% Footmen
10% Light Horse
10% Heavy Horse

The Northern levies are different and are built as follows:

20% Archers
70% Footmen
5% Light Horse
5% Heavy Horse

The Ironborn levies are different and are built as follows:

20% Archers
75% Footmen
5% Light Horse

The Dornish levies are different and are built as follows:

20% Archers
50% Footmen
20% Light Horse
10% Heavy Horse

Naval Muster:

While generally the exception rather than the norm, a few regions in Westeros have a strong enough maritime tradition that they are able to muster a reasonable amount of ships suited for combat in times of war. Like levies these must be mustered with rolls from an existing manpower pool. These regions are listed below.

The Iron Islands: 200 Ships
The Narrow Sea: 70 Ships
The Arbor: 50 Ships
Oldtown: 30 Ships
King’s Landing: 20 Ships
Lannisport: 20 Ships
White Harbour: 10 Ships
Gulltown: 10 Ships
Seagard: 10 Ships

Manpower Pool
Based off of information from 2005, the following manpowers are available for each of the Seven Kingdoms and the Crownlands:

The North: 45,000
Iron Islands: 20,000
Riverlands: 45,000
Vale: 45,000
Westerlands: 50,000
Crownlands: 15,000
Stormlands: 35,000
Reach: 80,000
Dorne: 40,000

Last Edit: Jun 11, 2023 7:45:03 GMT -5 by Gandalf: Slight change to duel rules

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Game of Thrones Rules May 7, 2023 5:09:11 GMT -5

Post by Gandalf on May 7, 2023 5:09:11 GMT -5

Military and Battle (Part 2)

Scouting Rules

Practically speaking, armies of a certain size cannot hide. The results of scouting are completely up to the moderators.
It is impossible to know the exact composition of any army unless someone has infiltrated the enemy camp and is relaying the information as a spy, not a scout.

Scout rolls are done on request by region. Moderators WILL relay passive information to both sides.

Land Battle Rules

Narrative

This is the unquantifiable part of the battle and counts for the most in terms of outcome. The Mechanics are just there to deal with the numbers of survivors and to add a framework for strategy. This section deals with RP, circumstances of the battle, morale, terrain influences, and any other circumstance at the discretion of moderation. Pure numbers will be just one of many factors considered which may include: terrain, motivations, perception for victors, actions of played characters, for the outcome of a battle. Orders play a part, but in the chaos of a battle these tend to have mitigated impact.

Mechanics

Preface: The mechanics are almost exclusively used to give us number figures for the results of battles to see how many survivors remain on both sides. All phases of the battle will be subject to heavy modifiers based on the infinite number of circumstances that may arise, as well as character action. You will be expected to RP through battle phases. Creative use of RP is expected. Obviously not every character is going to be a military genius so orders will be dependent on command/how complex they are.
Moderators reserve the right to apply liberal modifiers to any roll in order to accurately reflect RP circumstances.

Phase ZERO: Armies

In preparation for a battle, you should divide your armies into three flanks with their own commander; mark one of these commanders out as the ‘Field Commander’ who holds overall responsibility for order of battle.

Phase ONE: Initiative

Initiative determines who starts the battle. If a battle has been ‘agreed’ upon and the site of battle chosen, the side that chose the site of battle holds the initiative.

If two armies attack each other in an unplanned engagement, then neither side holds initiative. The field commander of each force will be given a roll based on their Command stat (d10+command) with the highest roll making the first move. In the event of a successful ambush, the ambushed side holds no initiative and will not be able to move troops or respond for a full phase.

Moderators will give a basic rundown of the terrain of the battle, giving rough indicators of favourable and unfavourable ground. The side holding the initiative can choose the terrain to their own advantage, which is conferred in modifiers. They also arrange their troops in battle order first. This is when the side with initiative submits their orders - these may be up to but not exceeding 300 words.

The side without initiative then is able to respond - they will receive a perception check to determine the position, size, and structure of the enemy army, subject to outside modifiers. They will then submit their orders to the moderator.

Phase TWO: Skirmish

Normal engagements then commence with the skirmish phase, in which the archers of both sides (all three flanks included) fire upon the opposing force.

Mod Calculations:
Size of archers/100 = Skirmish power
SP x (d5+modifiers) = Score
Highest score after 3 rounds ‘wins’ phase.

Winner of the skirmish phase achieves a small advantage (+1 to battle modifier)
Archers are then counted out of the melee phase but may still take casualties in the retreat.

Phase THREE: Battle

This is the main body of the engagement, in which the three flanks enact their respective orders and begin the battle.

Whoever wins all three flanks (or a majority) wins the battle, using a ‘best of three’ rolls system. Engagements between flanks are judged as happening concurrently. At various points moderators may highlight critical moments between phases in which player characters can intervene, either by issuing new orders or engaging opposing player characters.

Mod Calculations:

Size of force on each flank/1000 = Battle Points (adjusted for battle scale- can be a factor of 100 or even 10 for smaller engagements)
BP x (d20+modifiers) = score.
Do this three times per phase, roll three phases.
Offer PCs the chance to intervene between phases for better modifiers if necessary. Roll for wounds or deaths in battle using injuries table.
Highest score wins the phase.
Most phases wins the flank, most flanks wins the battle.
Tally up total battle score per army per flank, you will need it. Winners score is the losers casualties, losers score is the winners casualties.

Phase FOUR: Victory and Defeat

After the battle phase, it should be clear who has won and who has lost.
In medieval battles, most casualties were incurred during the retreat - an army that is capable of organising an organised retreat generally lives to fight another day.

The ability to conduct an organised retreat depends on several factors which may include the following:
- A rearguard
- An intact flank
- Status and ability of the field commander.

An organised retreat will be subject to a harassment roll which represents casualties incurred during the withdrawal.
An unorganised retreat may turn into a full scale rout, at which a minimum of 25% of the defeated army will be destroyed.
Retreating armies will move to the nearest 'safe' terrain. The victorious army must wait a day before beginning pursuit

Mod Calculations:

Default chance to organise a retreat is 0/20. Apply modifiers liberally; an army with a surviving and competent field commander who only lost marginally should be able to conduct an organised retreat with ease. An army with no commander will find it impossible.

Harassment roll: d5, =% of casualties incurred.

Rout roll: Range between 25 and 100, apply modifiers based on terrain and circumstance liberally (eg, an army retreating into a river will literally be unable to do so)

Death and Injuries

Battle condition rolls are not modified by survival and are done with a d-100. These can occur during the battle or during a rout - injury rolls during a rout are significantly higher than the odds highlighted below. Parameters change at moderation discretion.

1-5: Death
6-30: Wounded, severity by range (eg lower number = worse wound)
31-45 Captured, if by the losing side they will free you in the retreat.
46-100 Free and unharmed

Injury roll table:
1-4: Serious, roll disfigurement table.
5-15: Middling, unable to command or fight for an IRL day.
16-20: Mild, small penalty to survival for a IRL day.

Serious Injury:
1-5 Disfigured. -5 Charisma. Character's face is badly maimed (on a level similar to Sandor Clegane's), making them unsightly.
6-10 Crippled (Arm). Cannot Duel, and fighting on the front-line of a battle will give a serious malus to survival. One of the character's arms is rendered useless, they are unable to effectively defend themselves.
11-15 Crippled (Leg). Cannot Duel, can still Joust. Cannot command Infantry, only Cavalry.
16-20 Old War Wound. Begin death rolls every year henceforth. Starting at 2/20, with +2 every 5 years.

Trait Rewards:
Risking your life in a battle confers its advantages. Moderators may reward traits at their discretion, usually to characters who commanded during the battle or had some stake in its outcome.

Siege Battle Rules:

Castles are purpose-built military positions whose primary purpose is to militarily dominate the surrounding region. Westerosi Castles follow the Andal construction methods, utilizing stone heavily in the building of walls and keeps. As a result, castles proved to be strongholds against attacks and could be held by a small garrison for weeks and even months at a time. Any average castle will last around 4 days in a siege if besieged correctly.

The locations of Winterfell, the Eyrie, Storm’s End, King’s Landing, Casterly Rock, Pyke, Highgarden, Sunspear, Riverrun, Oldtown and Harrenhal are extremely powerful keeps that have stood the testament of sieges many times over. This will make them harder to take than other regular castles. In comparison to regular castles, these keeps will last up to 7 days if besieged in a competent manner. Otherwise, these could last beyond 7 days.

Positive and negative modifiers will be applied based on Moderation discretion. Castles will require thought to them if one desires to take them by force. No plan could result in huge losses and fatal consequences while any level of planning will help with coordinating better assaults and lead to good bonuses being applied. Also, any sort of castle with uncontested access to the sea will likely hold for an indefinite amount of time. This will require players to deploy ships to help contend with the waters to ensure the siege is in their favor.

Garrisons:

All castles have a base garrison of 200 men. These cannot be moved out from the castle:
100 Footmen
100 Archers

Certain locations, namely King’s Landing, Lannisport, and Oldtown, will be exceptions to the garrison rules as they have personal City Watches.

City Watch of King’s Landing: 4,500 men
- 3,000 Light Infantry
- 1,500 Archers

City Watch of Lannisport: 3,000 men
- 1,500 Light Infantry
- 1,000 Archers
- 500 Heavy Infantry

City Watch of Oldtown: 3,000 men
- 2,000 Light Infantry
- 1,000 Archers

Rolling a Siege

Rolling a siege is the same as rolling a Land Battle except the flanks are Gatehouse and Walls, not Left, Right, and Centre.

Remember also that sieges require patrols of dismounted and mounted troops screen protecting the besieging army in order to ensure the besieging army is not taken by surprise by a relief force.

Siege Equipment
Siege Ladders
- 6 hours to construct.
- Basic siege equipment required for assault on a castle.

Battering Ram
- 6 hours to construct.
- Basic siege equipment required for assault on a castle.

Mangonel/Catapult
- 12 hours to construct

Siege Tower
- 24 hours to construct

Naval Battle Rules

Rolled the same as land battles but scaled down to account for the ship on ship combat.

Aftermath
- Player characters undergo standard wounded/captured rolls.
- The enemy fleet retreats to the nearest friendly port, or to any other port specified by the losing player provided it is not closer than the nearest friendly port to which the ships would otherwise flee to. The port the ships flee to must, however, be friendly: you cannot 'retreat' to an enemy or neutral port.

Last Edit: May 28, 2023 7:00:44 GMT -5 by Gandalf

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Game of Thrones Rules May 7, 2023 10:28:06 GMT -5

Post by Gandalf on May 7, 2023 10:28:06 GMT -5

Spying Rules

Requires the intelligence focus.

Allows your character to build a spying network in the court of another character. The success of this endeavour is determined on rolls and your intelligence stat, as well as the quality of your RP. It also relies on your character being present in the court of that character whilst the network is being constructed.

A spy network, once built, feeds you information from the court of said character (with the moderators giving you information based on their discretion). This could be plots, army movements, or general events. It also allows you to take actions against characters where the spy network is located. A character can be kidnapped, assassinated, etc, again based on rolls and your intelligence stat. If you were to fail in such actions it could result in you being caught and your spy network being destroyed; this risk is carried even in success, so use your networks wisely.

A spy network also allows you to obtain information. All information is obtained by mod discretion and through a moderator: when a spy network is established, a moderator will create a chat on discord with the player specifically for the purpose of feeding the information they come by through this spy network. ‘Passive’ information such as military movements, major events etc will be relayed to the player character through this moderator chat and will be the basis of their In Character knowledge. They will not have to go through any other processes to acquire this information as it is considered ‘easy to come by’ for their agents in the city.

More specific information will be handled via requests in this same chat. For example, Varys wishes to know what Cersei is planning. The player therefore makes a request for information in the moderator chat, and the moderator rolls accordingly to determine the success of the endeavour and the extent of the information uncovered. This information will then become part of the player character’s knowledge.

As a note, this process will be heavily scrutinised by the moderators and any attempt to assume or obtain information without going through the proper channels will be considered metagaming. If you are unsure, ask a moderator, and we can clean it up.