IIRC it was the first printing that actually included an explaination about how the Maester was usually contracted by the Major House for the Bnner House or was a Maester on a Pilgrimage.
Though it might have been one of the other books they have for it that says that and it might be an alternate way of handling it.
Am I correct in interpreting that even one more point in Power will kick us up a 'rank'? It seems that we are currently less able to defend/maintain what we have than perhaps we should be, or am I being over-cautious?
Yeah we're sitting right on the edge of the next Power rank. We don't have great defenses, and whoever we train is probably scattered around our lands right now, moreso if we get more soldiers. If you want to throw behind that, go ahead!
If I haven't read a dissenting opinion from UltraFennec's by the end of the day, I will be rolling for Power again.
Dissenting opinions! PAH! Forge your path with COLD STEEL!
Which is to say, why wait? :D
For one thing, I would like to hear from Wandslinger or someone else* if there is even a point to rolling for anything else since if I am interpreting things correctly, it looks like even if I roll a 6 it isn't likely to increase anything else from where it currently is.
*Someone Else can include you UltraFennec if you have access to the rules, mainly it just means I am currently operating solely from the information you guys give me, I don't yet have a book myself.
Also, I don't have the training to swing blind & expect to hit anything but air.
Rolling for anything will put as that much closer to a category up in that category. Power's just the easy one because it's literally one point to the next category, lol. A lucky six in Defense for example would put us barely in the next category for that, for example.
But really, you can put it in whatever you want and it will contribute somehow.
I wouldn't worry about it too much though because Wandslinger's gotta roll the House History events and those can drastically alter our fortunes.
If you look in Campaign Info though, every one of those stats that's at 31? Those are barely hanging on to their current category. Basically every ten numbers (1-10, 11-20, 21-30, 31-40, etc.) is a category, up to seventy (which is only reachable with land modifiers), and also 0 for houses with totally bad luck in some areas.
Hmmmm....are acquiring a book? I could probably share the copy I have if you need it sooner than later.
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Generally your power is used to invest in trained units of types of soldiers. Given our lowish defense but larger land score, a hall and a trained garrison to defend it and a town around it might be the extent of our troops, along with maybe another unit of smallfolk levies or a green unit of infantry.
Essentially: westeros doesn't operate like a pathfinder world. There aren't usually guards running around the kingdom patrolling for evil unless we invest in a unit like that. The guards and soldiers aregoing to be hanging around to defend the family yhey are sworn to defend.
Our law score already means that crime is uncommon around here. Whether that comes from well-trained soldiers, or simply good-natured peoole is up to you guys.
I expect to pick up a copy today in fact. Will be an my FLGS this afternoon for bi-weekly Pathfinder with my son & I have a discount there that may expire soon.
Given how high our Wealth score is in comparison to others, I'm inclined to suspect we're just lucky so far in terms of bandit activity and such-like, a bit more armsmen seems like a good idea.
edit: It's our Population that's notably higher, not our Wealth; still three more to Power aids us in being a bit more internally stable I feel.
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Ok! I got that down, now we find out when the house was founded!
Wow, the house is very old indeed! You were founded during the Andal Invasion!
So, number of historical events...
Huh, that's convenient. Tell you what, since it's exactly six, I'm going to have you players roll all them, Founding Event included. So to make a list:
1. UF
2. Azaelas
3. Crom
4. Michaelane
5. Irnk
6. Spazmodeus
I'll roll to see who gets to start, then we'll cycle through the list from there, aka: If I roll a 3, Crom will roll the Founding Event. Once he makes his roll and applies the appropriate modifiers, then Michaelane will go, then Irnk, then Spazmodeus, then we jump to UF, then Azaelas last. Ok?
Spazmodeus, roll us how the House was founded!
EDIT: In case somebody doesn't know, it's a 3d6 roll for the Historical Event roll.
Rolling!!!!
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That is Ascent, so the House came to be either by marriage to a noble, or through a great act. Which would you all prefer?
The person rolling the Events will roll the modifiers, so Spazmodeus, give me four separate 1d6 rolls, one each for Influence, Lands, Power, and Wealth. These will be added to the totals we already have.
An Ascent! Auspicious! That's a good event to found us! Hm. I suppose now we need to start thinking of a name, and how exactly we ascended to nobility during the Andal invasion. Were we loyal to the Old Ways, or did we side with the conquerors? I imagine the latter given how few of the Godswood are supposedly still around in that area.
EDIT: Curse the ninja posters!
I vote great event given the timeframe. Someone that cleaved fast to one side of the invasion or the other and was rewarded for their service. Maybe killed a noble battle leader on the other side of a conflict, and when ours were the victors we were rewarded with the dead noble's title and lands?
Influence
Lands
Power
Wealth
I believe that means it's my turn...
Which is Infrastructure, so I choose two and raise each by 1d6.
Hmmm...Well, I'm definitely raising Influence. Suggestions for the second? I was thinking Wealth because hey, more money never really seems to be a BAD thing in the Seven Kindgoms.
Well, a second opinion is good enough for me!
So if that's the second history event for us then maybe after the Andal invasion we were lucky enough to be able to rebuild and expand and consolidate our holdings without undue stress? That might be a bit odd given a land learning to cope with another society taking over and chasing out the children of the forest, but who knows?
Really? The book made it sound like the First Men lived alongside them for a time and that the Andals were the ones that chased them out finally, along with slaughtering most of the First Men. Because the First Men still kept the Godswood in some places didn't they?
I should maybe finally go wiki-diving and see what the true ASOIAF lore nerds have put together.
I think the first men and children made a truce...the children got the forests and over time the First men came to worship the little green guys; a la the Godswood.
Then when the Andals came, believing in the Seven, they tried to destroy the current religion.
The Truce is correct. The First Men came to worship the same gods via the Godswood. The Faces on the Weirwood Trees are to represent the Old Gods and were carved by the Children.
BTW: Whose Roll?
Scandal... Of Course I would roll the Negative Historical Event.
Guess we could say it was the suspicion of the births of a large quantity of Bastards via Married Noble Women.
Any ways:
That's kinda far back in the House's history, you'd think that by now it wouldn't be remembered, but I suppose nobility always remembers matters of blood.
Hence why I mentioned it being Married Noble Women. It also works with one of my Character Concepts I wanna run.
Oh dear lord... We could be House Cyarlark...
Well I was pointing more to the fact that these are supposed to have happened in order of rolling, chronologically, so it wouldn't have happened in the last few generations.
You...may have been saying that too actually.
We seem to have been talking in Circles...
BTW: House Cyarlark was a Minor House that supposedly had a Lord who not only Married into a Northern Family and had the Blood of the First Men but also supposedly seduced a Targaryen Woman (I think it was a minor Daughter. Something like the 3rd or 4th born Daughter of a lesser Prince.) and produced at least 2-3 Bastard Children. All of which became Wards of the other houses in which they also seduced the Ladies of. Though they were not the only house involved in it. Though this was from a Short Story.
So we could have been involved in similar or even that event.
That sounds pretty funny actually. Good story.
Apparently 2 of the Bastards, a Male and Female, were given as Wards to the same house and continued the Targaryen Tradition of Keeping the Bloodline Pure in Secret.
Ice ain't nothing. I really love Greatswords. Especially a Claymore.
Ooooh! Rollrollrollrollroll!
Having some badass-ery in our history is a good thing :)
Sooner or later, every house produces a bad seed. I would just as well it was before us.
What michaelane said. People will forever remember that we could be secretly NOT NICE.
Ya gotta drop Law and Population by 1d6 apiece too Crom. ;)
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Yep.
So, the House was raised to nobility by some grand event, and then had the peace and prosperity to rebuild after the Andal invasion. Later, a bastard (or many, even one is considered scandalous) was born to the house, staining the family name. Yet further in history a truly villainous blackguard appears in our line, and while his machinations gained us power, they also left a trail of terror in his wake.
Yikes.
Ouch. One SOB managed to do more to blacken our name than an entire scandal...