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<blockquote data-quote="77IM" data-source="post: 7336982" data-attributes="member: 12377">You have 21 total votes (16 NPC + 5 PC) so a simple majority is 11 votes. If you DON'T want all 5 PCs to vote as a block and settle the issue right away, that means at most 5 votes can be decided in either direction, with 6 undecideds. However, that means the PCs would only have to convince one person! if you want them to convince 3-5 NPCs, then at most 0-2 NPCs can begin the game decided, with the remaining 12-16 being undecided. That's a lot of undecideds.I recommend you shift the focus to investigation: Make it unclear which NPCs are already decided, so that the PCs have to figure that out. For example, on each side there is 1 declared NPC and another 4 NPCs who are pretty much decided but the PCs don't know that. Then there are 6 undecideds. Since the PCs know their side has 1 vote, they need to interact with at least 5 NPCs to secure an 11 vote majority -- each interaction they either convince someone to vote OR discover that the person is already voting their way. It's likely they'll interact with more than 5, since some NPCs will be discovered to already be decided against them.If the PCs want to nominate a third candidate (one of their own, perhaps) then they have 5 votes already but still need 6 more. There are 6 undecideds they can try to convince, plus they might (with more effort) be able to sway one of the partisans. So having a PC claim the throne is a possibility, but is a little bit harder than going with an established candidate.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="77IM, post: 7336982, member: 12377"] You have 21 total votes (16 NPC + 5 PC) so a simple majority is 11 votes. If you DON'T want all 5 PCs to vote as a block and settle the issue right away, that means at most 5 votes can be decided in either direction, with 6 undecideds. However, that means the PCs would only have to convince one person! if you want them to convince 3-5 NPCs, then at most 0-2 NPCs can begin the game decided, with the remaining 12-16 being undecided. That's a lot of undecideds. I recommend you shift the focus to investigation: Make it unclear which NPCs are already decided, so that the PCs have to figure that out. For example, on each side there is 1 declared NPC and another 4 NPCs who are pretty much decided but the PCs don't know that. Then there are 6 undecideds. Since the PCs know their side has 1 vote, they need to interact with at least 5 NPCs to secure an 11 vote majority -- each interaction they either convince someone to vote OR discover that the person is already voting their way. It's likely they'll interact with more than 5, since some NPCs will be discovered to already be decided against them. If the PCs want to nominate a third candidate (one of their own, perhaps) then they have 5 votes already but still need 6 more. There are 6 undecideds they can try to convince, plus they might (with more effort) be able to sway one of the partisans. So having a PC claim the throne is a possibility, but is a little bit harder than going with an established candidate. [/QUOTE]

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