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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8011337" data-attributes="member: 42582">On the topic of social conlict: my session today (of Prince Valiant) had three main ones.* When the PCs arrived in Constantinople, feted as dragon slayers, they did homage before the Emperor and were bestowed with great gifts. When in due course they headed off into Anatolia, the wife of one of the PCs was invited to stay behind in the entourage of the Empress. At first the PC in question inclined to think this was a good idea, but then he got anxious that he couldn't trust himself (he is in fact in love with another woman, although she is currently in Toulouse) and perhaps not his wife either: so he tried to persuade her to travel with him. This was his Presence + Fellowship against her Presence + Glamourie. He succeeded, and she agreed to travel with him. This turned out to be handy, because later on in the session the PCs needed to haggle over the price of a debt that they were purchasing, and the PC's wife was the only in their entourage with Money Handling skill. She was able to get them a good price (one-and-a-half pennies in the shilling). * While travelling in Anatolia the PCs agreed to help a local count, too impecunious to field an effective force (he was the debtor whose debts the PCs ended up buying), to fight off an incursion of Huns. Taking council in the evening, they agreed on a plan of attack for the next day. But the count insisted on leading the charge himself. The PCs didn't want this - given the smaller number of their warband compared to the Huns they wanted to be in command themselves (two of the PCs have quite high Battle skill ratings). So an argument ensued - Presence + Courtesie on both side, though with the PC taking a penalty because he was not being fully courteous given that (as the count pointed out) it was the count's land and the count's cause that was at issue. The PC lost the argument and agreed to let the count lead the charge on the morrow. The PCs went on to circumvent this agreement by taking their forces out on a night raid against the Huns, which ended up working spectactularly well. * While the count and the PC commanders were arguing in the tent about who would lead the charge, the third PC heard a commotion outside among the levies and camp followers. He went out to see what was going on. A middle-aged camp follower was denouncing the count as hopeless and unable to properly provision and equip his levies - hence, she predicted, they would lose on the morrow. The PC atttempted to bully her into silence by insulting her, and this was resolved as a competition of his Presence vs her Presence + Oratory. (The PC has no Oratory skill.) The camp follower won this debate, and so the PC returned to the command tent and readily agreed that the PCs would be better off undertaking a night raid then trying to rely on any useful help from the count.There were some other social checks - one of the PCs made a good impression when the group arrived at the Byzantine border on the Black Sea coast, and the same PC helped the members of the PCs' warband remain calm when the vessel they were travelling on was assaulted by a "dragon" (a giant crocodile). That PC has the best Oratory of the group, and it's partly for that reason that he is Marshall of their Order. But those weren't conflicts as such.EDIT: I probably should include this information, namely, descriptors for the relevant NPCs:Elizabeth of York: Gullible about knights and noblemen (hence her desire to spend time in the retinue of the Empress);Count Aethelred, a Goth in Byzantine Anatolia: Proud but not haughty, honest, merciful, trusting;Cameh the camp-follower: Independent, melancholic, relentless in holding the count responsible for the state of his levies.</blockquote>

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