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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yair" data-source="post: 2591314" data-attributes="member: 10913">I won't argue over using an ability or skill check; I presented my suggested rules and their implications, you choose what works for you.Love & War, a fine book by Atlas Games (I really should review it), offers the following rules to "allow you to abstract romatnic scenes".It is based on Diplomacy. A seperate series of Diplomacy checks is necessary for a knight to either become the lady's accepted courtly love [champion], or to win her bodily favors. An honorable knight normally attempts the first and then the second. The rules for the two are the same, however.The beloved is assigned a Reluctance, starting at 10 but heavily modified according to circumstance (+5 beloved already has an accepted knight, +4 beloved and knight worship hostile deities, and so on; there is a large table, and the GM is encouraged to use his judgement). The knight pursues his beloved by making approaches to her; in person, by sending a gift, and so on. Make a Diplomacy check against the reluctance as DC, if it succeeds, the reluctance is reduced by 1. You can make up to one approach per week, and must have a plausible grounds to make the apporoach (new gift, deed, poem, whatever). Bonuses can be had for good poems, gifts, or deeds; they stack, up to +30 (very significant and perfectly suitable gift, plus a spectacular deed, plus an eternal, shakespear-quality, verse).Once the belove'ds reluctance is eroded to zero, she accepts the knight as her courtly love or grants him her favors, depending on which the knight was aiming for.Just another idea.</blockquote>

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