[Discuss] Suggestions for the Question Nobility Option

[Timothy Collett]

Since it seems that Tom is against having an option to question  
someone's titles directly (which I can understand), I would like to  
propose some alterations to the Question Nobility option, designed to  
really drive home just what the option is *supposed* to do.

First of all, when the option was first introduced, there was no way,  
within the game, for us to play as a non-noble character.

Now, there is.

Thus, the first part of my suggestion, and the most radical, is to  
have the option make the target an adventurer, forced to work their  
way back to nobility.

*However...*

The second part is to have there be a way to avoid it.  When a ruler  
accuses a supposed noble of imposture, at that moment the honour  
losses would happen, and the character in question would lose all his/ 
her titles, but would not yet become an adventurer.  At that point,  
everyone else in the realm would get the option to support the  
accused noble's claim of nobility.  If enough nobles supported him  
(the number should probably be similar or proportional to the amount  
needed to protest the ruler out of power), the accused noble would  
not lose anything further, but the ruler would lose massive amounts  
of honour and prestige (I would say 25% or more), and his position as  
ruler, and would not be electable for at least another month.   
Perhaps there should also be an intermediate level at which the  
accused noble does not become an adventurer, but loses further honour...

If, though, there are *not* enough supporters within the alloted time  
period, the accused becomes an adventurer, and all those who *did*  
support him will lose large amounts of honour and prestige.

This change to the option would not only make it actually *remove*  
the nobility of the accused character, it would make certain that it  
would only be used in extreme cases where the ruler was either quite  
sure of support, or angry enough not to care.  That would ensure that  
it *could not* be misused simply to remove someone's titles.

Timothy Collett
Anaris Family

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How do you know the chosen ones? No greater love hath a man than he  
lay down his life for his friend. Not for millions, not for glory,  
not for fame... for one person. In the dark. Where no one will ever  
know or see.
--Sebastian, aka Jack, "Comes the Inquisitor"


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