Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="CreamCloud0" data-source="post: 9111414" data-attributes="member: 7034710">hmmm, my first thought is to distance their direct connection from the baron's power, or make that connection bring more trouble than good,<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">the character is the heir but their claim is not yet validated until they prove themselves wothy of it without it''s benefits in their adventures, and until they do they'll only have the minimum boons available to them from the position.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">they're the heir but throwing around their name, money and influence is going to draw all kinds of opportunists, kidnappers hoping to ransom them, assassins from rival families or just muggers on the streets.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">they might have been subject to some sort of discrace or scandal that the family has cut them off as best they can or the family as a whole tries to distance themselves from using their own name in public (don't want to be known you're the heir of the family that got rich off of exploiting their workers or who skimped on the materials used to build that monument that collapsed after only a month).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">they've been sufficiently distanced from their homelands that their family's name, while not insignificant, doesn't carry the direct oomph it usually would.</li> </ul>-they were an illegitimate heir, born out of marrage or with a maid or prostitute or drunken one-night-stand or somesuch, the baron might not even know they exist.-they are publicly assumed to be dead for some reason, and their use of their name/title is seen as crassly impersonating the dead</blockquote>

Verification