ASoIaF RPG - A Tourney of Gulls [Recruiting]

[Cor Azer]

Historical Event 2

The second major historical event that occurred to the house is Favor.

The details are up to you players, but broadly, some major power (such as the king, a major lord, the Faith, etc) placed a great favor upon your House, adding significant prestige.

 

[Cor Azer]

Historical Event 3

The third major event the happened to your house is Madness.

Madness indicates that some influential figure in your House's history wasn't entirely sane, and his actions - for weal or woe - significantly affected your House's status throughout the Vale and Westeros. As a group, you should figure out who this ancestor is, and what he did that was so mad - feel free to use the resource modifiers below to help you fill in the details.

 

[Cor Azer]

Historical Event 4

The most recent major event to happen to your House is Doom.

Broadly, a close series of tragedies, catastrophes, and poor decisions has significantly hurt your House. Use the die results below as a guide.

 

[Cor Azer]

House Resources and Holdings

For now, I'll keep the running total for the house resources/holdings in this post:

Defense: 46
Influence: 33 (at least 20 invested for a firstborn son - Laton - as heir)
Lands: 18
Law: 14 (-5 to House Fortunes)
Population: 14 (+0 to House Fortunes)
Power: 22
Wealth: 21

Note: Added Infrastructure's bonus dice to Lands and Law. Still missing Acmite's and Deepwinter's one +1d6 each to anything.

 

[Cor Azer]

Double post

 

[DrZombie]

Ok thanks.

I'm digesting and thinking. I'll post in a day or 2

 

[Cor Azer]

Ok thanks.

I'm digesting and thinking. I'll post in a day or 2

Take your time. I've got two possible players talking to me via email, so you may not be alone.

 

[DrZombie]

Question : when I look at the penalties, some are positive and some are negative (madness : defense -4) : does that actually give a positive bonus?

Founded in the early days of the empire, our lands have allways been rough and untamed. The first lord was granted his title after a heroic victory against the robber barons and wildlings which occupied these lands. He built a castle to pacify the lands, and started the first mines which were the basis of future wealth (bonus defence and land)
Our house grew in influence and importance, sending it's sons and well-trained man-at-arms to battle for the king, and receiving well-earned thanks from the royal family.
Morniag the builder was an exception to the rule. Plagued by visions of war and slaughter that he claimed would swallow the land, he fortified the lands at great cost. This fortification would also nearly be the undoing of the familie, as the fortifications were a major target during the war. Heavy fighting destroyed much of what was built in previous generations, casualities amongst the peasants, miners and tradesmen was atrocious, valuable lands and mines were destroyed, and many inhabitants turned to banditry in order to survive. The once great house payed a hefty price indeed, it's influence and power laid low, it's wealth spent and infrastructure destroyed.

Is that something in the line of what you're looking for?

 

[Cor Azer]

Question : when I look at the penalties, some are positive and some are negative (madness : defense -4) : does that actually give a positive bonus?

Founded in the early days of the empire, our lands have allways been rough and untamed. The first lord was granted his title after a heroic victory against the robber barons and wildlings which occupied these lands. He built a castle to pacify the lands, and started the first mines which were the basis of future wealth (bonus defence and land)
Our house grew in influence and importance, sending it's sons and well-trained man-at-arms to battle for the king, and receiving well-earned thanks from the royal family.
Morniag the builder was an exception to the rule. Plagued by visions of war and slaughter that he claimed would swallow the land, he fortified the lands at great cost. This fortification would also nearly be the undoing of the familie, as the fortifications were a major target during the war. Heavy fighting destroyed much of what was built in previous generations, casualities amongst the peasants, miners and tradesmen was atrocious, valuable lands and mines were destroyed, and many inhabitants turned to banditry in order to survive. The once great house payed a hefty price indeed, it's influence and power laid low, it's wealth spent and infrastructure destroyed.

Is that something in the line of what you're looking for?

Something like that can definitely work; we'll see what (if anything) the other players want to contribute to that and then iron out the wrinkles.

And yes, I thought I had added a note but I guess not, the negative penalties from Madness actually became bonuses - the rolls for Madness are actually a modifier of 6-2d6, but ENWorld only allows the die rolles to be added together, so I had to do some shenanigans to get an equivalent result (a penalty of 2d6-6).

 

[Cor Azer]

Sorry for double replying/quoting, but I wanted to clarify a few potential details.

Event 1 - Infrastructure - Founding

Founded in the early days of the empire, our lands have allways been rough and untamed. The first lord was granted his title after a heroic victory against the robber barons and wildlings which occupied these lands. He built a castle to pacify the lands, and started the first mines which were the basis of future wealth (bonus defence and land)

The basic idea here works. I've set up the game so the House was actually only founded during the Blackfyre Rebellion, roughly 100 years before this game is set. Still, a great victory against clansmen, and likely supporters of the rebel bastard Daemon Blackfyre probably contributed to the award of lands and house.

Also, are you suggesting Defense and Land get the two +2d6 bonuses? Just in case you care, Mines are specifically something bought with Wealth, but do require hills and/or mountains in Lands.

Event 2 - Favor

Our house grew in influence and importance, sending it's sons and well-trained man-at-arms to battle for the king, and receiving well-earned thanks from the royal family.

Sons sent to serve the king, eh? Sounds like the house may have had a member of the Kingsguard in its short history.

Event 3 - Madness

Morniag the builder was an exception to the rule. Plagued by visions of war and slaughter that he claimed would swallow the land, he fortified the lands at great cost. This fortification would also nearly be the undoing of the familie, as the fortifications were a major target during the war.

Morniag is exactly the sort of madness the game encourages - not necessarily evil, just off and somewhat disturbed.

Event 4 - Doom

Heavy fighting destroyed much of what was built in previous generations, casualities amongst the peasants, miners and tradesmen was atrocious, valuable lands and mines were destroyed, and many inhabitants turned to banditry in order to survive. The once great house payed a hefty price indeed, it's influence and power laid low, it's wealth spent and infrastructure destroyed.

Now here's the tick. This last war was probably Robert's Rebellion/the War of the Usurper. Given that your house took heavy loses, and it's sitauted in the Vale, one of Robert's strongholds, and that the House had its founding supporting the legitimate Targaryen line, it seems likely that your House fought against Robert while supporting King Aerys, losing much of its status in the process. It was well established in the books that Robert didn't condemn anyone for fighting well, even against him, so presumably, your House finally bent the knee to the new King Robert after he defeated Rhaegar on the Trident, which allowed them to keep some of their land and wealth, but all greatly reduced.