[Discuss] abusing the strip titles option?

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Timothy Collett wrote:

> Yeah, so?  In BM reality, *all* positions are handed out either by the 
> ruler or the duke.  There is no heredity.  However, we have to simulate 
> it somehow.
> 
> Timothy Collett
> Anaris Family
> 

nobles quite often have multiple titles. (look at that load of titles 
prince charles has!) we can just assume everyone has a (minor) title (in 
the middle of nowhere)... thus it's the questioning of all titles.. 
including the minor one that chucks them back to being a commoner...

one could think of stripping a major title (one would presume stripping 
of that title would also remove the said person from that particular 
realm) as the ruler marching his army to kick the lord out or somehow 
discovering someone else has a better claim, etc.

unless we somehow should believe that almost all characters in the game 
are related by blood.. hereditary is essentially contradictory to 
gameplay. players can choose to serve any lord... upon the lord's 
removal, the player get a claim on the land... like how? suddenly a long 
lost blood relative, are they?

I find kicking a lord down to commoner to be rather too extreme without 
there being some intermediate alternative. there is no defense and no 
redress.. (aside from maybe a duel... now why would a ruler duel with a 
peasant?) other nobles can kick the ruler out.. but they can't just give 
you a bunch of recommendations to make you a noble (does it even make 
sense if they can?)

is it possible for a ruler to declare a lord and his region rogue... and 
invade the region?

and yes.. I don't really get that nobility thing.


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