[Discuss] Abusing Bounties

[Mark Moss]

On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 18:50 -0400, Lyman Stone wrote:

> Most assassination attempts DO kill people, actually. 

In the BattleMaster world, at least recently, an assassination attempts
on nobles will, at worst, put your character in bed for a few days.
What happens in the RL present, or even at some point in European
history, is irrelevant to what your character knows.

> Lets count each  
> militia an infiltrator has ever knifed as one assassination. Killing  
> a noble is much the same. Those militia might have been in their  
> tents when you knifed them. The only reason the nobles don't die is  
> to prevent widespread character death and limit the power of  
> infiltrators. But, as far as your character can tell, assassinations  
> have an astonishingly high success rate. I'd wage about 80% of all  
> assassinations have been attacks on militia, if not an even higher rate.

Yeah, but those are lowly commoners.  Your character, and his noble
friends, are so much better then commoners.  How often does your
character see another noble killed by assassins?  Nobles are obviously
made of sturdier stock then those frail commoners.

Mark Moss