Leadership postitions, can a character fill two or more slots?

[Hama]

The question is in the title. Please, it is really important for me to know, the session is in few hours, so i would like your opinions-rulings...

[calagnar]

No you can only have one title at any time. There are enough npc to fill out the kingdom if they have blanks in the AP with out adding extas. That sayed if they did not make friends this will be very hard on them. But they should have started out knowing that with 11 spots to fill they wold need npc to complet out the list.
My group hase 5 players and there making friends of the npc. With 11 spots and 5 players. They need 6 npc to fill in the gaps. There are a list of npc at the start of RRR and what posions they want to have and what there best at. The list covers every posion thats not the king. Or you can make some more npc to fill in the gaps but it's best if the pc trust the npc in the role.

[Brian Bachman]

That is correct. By the rules each PC can only fill one position. If you have a small party of 3 or less, your GM may want to waive this rule, but the expectation is that all other spots should be filled by NPCs, either the named NPCS they meet at various times and have stats already developed, or generic NPCs assumed to have a bonus of +2 in the relevant stat. As a GM, I would also find it reasonable to rule that the party could attract NPCs with better stats if it takes excaptional measures to recruit them, like offering cash bonuses or other incentives.

[rando1000]

Since I now only have 2 PCs, I'm thinking of allowing them to fill two positions each, but require 2 weeks out of each month to be spent governing, rather than 1. Thoughts?

[Alexander Kilcoyne]

Sounda pretty reasonable :).

[Diego Rossi]

Especially as long as the kingdom is small (1-2 hexagons with a few buildings) I would allow the PC to cover for missing councillors.

They would be only covering for the vacancy, not getting the bonus of a filled position.

So, for example:
- a Ruler doing the job of a Grand diplomat would remove the "Decrease stability by 2", and "The kingdom cannot issue promotion edicts" penalties, but he would not increase stability.
- a High Priest working as a substitute Councilor will remove the "Decrease loyalty by 2, cannot benefit from festivals and increase in unrest by 1" penalty, but not add to Loyalty.

The guy covering for a vacancy should have a principal role somewhat linked to the secondary position he is covering (the Marshal can cover for a missing Spymaster but not for a High Priest for example) and this would be possible only so long as there is only one city and it is reasonably small.

[gang]

There was a post on here some months back with some suggested 'rulership feats'. In that there were feats that allowed a PC (or NPC for that matter) to hold two rulership roles. I've introduced that in my campaign of 6 players, but if I only had two I'd probably let them have two roles without the feat. *shrug*

[rando1000]

Thanks for the thoughts.

[axiris]

Semi-related question: Can you have more then one person filling a single leadership slot?

For example, having preserved Auchs and Akiros, having them function together as General, Using Auchs's superior stat for the rank, but keeping Akiros as a handler for him or some such or to accommodate in case he ends up assassinated so as to not suffer a vacancy penalty.