The Wanderer

I have a question about sieges regarding this adventure... I wouldn't use the "simple siege resoultion" rules on BotE, right? Because they are very simple. What rules do you use for sieges? How do you run them during an adventure?

I think I will use you old list of prices but with this suggested correction

Ok here it is, the family tree (just pay attention to the names, as the ages are not actualiced...) William (PK; with two manors, one gifted, one granted) marries Bernadette and have two children, Eduard (now 16 y.o.) and Markus. Bernadette dies and William luckily marries Elizabeth, whose dowry includes one manor. They have four children (their eldest male son is Egbert, now 5 y.o.). Now William is dead, and the player after playing two years with Julius (William's uncle, and also a veteran knight of his household) wants to play with Eduard as squire of another PK. Does the widower keeps the whole manor she "provided" (as dowry) to the marriage? Or does she keeps a regular widower portion of 1/3 of each manor? What happens with the rest of the landholding until Eduard comes to age? And when he eventually comes to age? And after Elizabeth dies?

What I did, is that the widow made a deal with the uncle and countess for being maintained with 3£ for her and her children (who are the half brothers of the squire-PK). The rest of the land is stewarded by the uncle until the squire reaches the age and becomes a knight, when he will inherit everything but will have to keep maintaining her and her children until she dies or the children grow.

The thing is that he cannot be the guardian because he is 16 and still a squire (of another PK), so the guardian will be his uncle (the brother of his father, and household knight of the manor). Also, he is not the son of the widow, but the son of the first bride of his father. What a mess!! 😱 Hahahaha!

Ok, seems fair enough! Thank you. I'm working on being a better GM 😄

I was thinking of making him roll three times (for he does three squeezes, one per manor...) is it too much?

Could a PK with different manors do different squeezes on them? For example a negligible one on his main manor and light squeezes on his second and third manors. Of course he would have to roll consequences 3 times...

I saw this on the old forum archive (2013). Is it the system you're using now? I like it.

When talking about the honor loss, does that apply also if you release (or fire) a foot soldier of your mesnie? or even other members of the entourage/retinue?

Where are prices of the mercenaries on GPC? What page? Where does it say that in the rules? I cannot find it. But mesnie is cheaper. If someone would like to save money they wouldn't hire mercenaries, as they are very expensive!

Yet another question... Since mercenaries are much expensive (according to BotM, as I coudn't find them anywhere...) than mesnie... why would anyone hire mercenaries for one month instead of upkeeping soldiers for one year, for almost the same price? 🤔

Ok, thank you very much for your kind responses!

How could they drop to ordinary if they are already ordinary? I think I'm missing something... 🤔😅

Sorry but I don't understand how do you penalize the lower maintenance. Also, I don't know what do you mean when you say this affects the annual glory but not the glory total. Isn't the annual glory each year adds to the glory total?

So, if they are ordinary by default, then ... is there no damage to the standard of living of the family until -5 lots (when they drop to poor)?? I don't know if I understand it well 🙈

I think I will not bother the PKs with their moms right now, because if I didn't do it before there's no reason for doing it now... but I will apply it with the next generation of knights

Ok, you convinced me with your example hahaha

I think, that if they are already living as ordinary and drop down to standard of living they go down to impoverished, not poor...

How would yo apply this to "basic" knights with only one or two manors (and therefore they live as ordinary knights)? With -5 lots they're impoverished? (Every time I see this "shortage consequences" I see it applied to rich knights)

So...am I understanding well... the beginning PKs don't have DF because of his mother being alive? In that case I did it totally wrong 😅

Ok, basically any thing that doesn't give them other benefits than the glory itself should be counted as conspicuous consumption. I get it!

Ok... well, it looks too much for me... I think 5:1 would be better (more balanced?). One question... when they spend money on other things (treasure, armaments, horses, construction...) do they earn 1 glory per £1 spent, or glory is only earnt with conspicuous consumption (such as feasts, etc) ???

She is a heiress of her own father, and the widow of her husband! I didn't express it well, sorry! ... With all this dower and widow's thing... then, when the PKs begin the campaign, when their father die and they inherit one manor... then the manor only gives them £6.5 right? as 1/3 (£3.5) goes to her mother as the dower!! 😰😱 I didn't realised 'til now!!

Where does it say conspicuous consumption earns 10 glory per 1 libram used?? I thought it was 2 glory pero 1 libram (BotE)...