[Discuss] Roleplaying police, bust me first.

[Timothy Collett]

On Jun 25, 2007, at 11:50 AM, James wrote:
> All of those reasons imply the person did something wrong.  Accept  
> for the last one, which is not likely to hold weight with the  
> titans after you complain about someone buying the title with 62  
> ooc messages (at least I would hope not).  Your character has  
> absolutely no clue that the person did anything wrong, is that so  
> hard to understand?

I'm not sure how things work in Lasanar, or just what, exactly,  
happened, but consider this angle, with details from Riombara, which  
seems to work similarly:

The laws of the realm state that the *only* valid method of gaining a  
lordship is to be elected by a plurality of nobles, and then  
appointed by the Ruler or the appropriate Duke.  This has been the  
case since the founding of the realm.  Your character shows up with a  
title one day, and the Council demands, "How did you get that?"

You reply, "Why, my grandfather was the previous Count's brother; I  
have a blood right to the region.  See, here are documents proving it."

They reply, "Well, when did you get elected?  You didn't?  Then get  
out of here; you should know our laws perfectly well by now!"

How would you propose to counter that?  Unless you have a significant  
number of nobles on your side (in which case you probably have the  
power to do more than just take a lordship), there's no way you're  
going to convince the nobles of the realm that they voted for you.

This is why my proposal includes doing away with appointments except  
when there is no claim: because that's the *only* way you're going to  
get realms like Riombara, and Lasanar, to abandon their years-old RP  
of being a realm where *all* regional positions are elected, NOT  
inherited.

Timothy Collett
Anaris Family

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