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Old 07-17-2014, 04:42 PM   #21
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Being king of the UK etc. has been involuntary and non-hazardous since about 1701.
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Old 07-17-2014, 04:44 PM   #22
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Being king of the UK etc. has been involuntary and non-hazardous since about 1701.
If a king tries to abdicate they'll kill him or his family?
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Old 07-17-2014, 04:53 PM   #23
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If a king tries to abdicate they'll kill him or his family?
God knows. Edward VIII got prior permission and was still disgraced, exiled, and dispossessed.
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Old 07-17-2014, 04:55 PM   #24
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Sure, but is it a small charge, just enough to reliably kill the victim or a bigger one that can cause damage to close bystanders? We need to know whether there is a muffled crump! noise and the guy falls over with his eyeballs hanging out or whether his brains spraypaint the wall while skull fragments lethally ricochet around the room.
It's probably zero points regardless. You can determine the power based on a chosen quantity of TL-appropriate explosive if you want, but the amount of collateral damage when your brain gets remotely reformatted is a feature from a character building perspective.

(If you had a brain bomb that was under your control or went off on death or something, you might use the guidance here. You might also turn to it if you were calculating point value for some kind of minion whose master would have the detonator, similar to how GURPS Zombies addresses exploitable infectiousness.)
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God knows. Edward VIII got prior permission and was still disgraced, exiled, and dispossessed.
Was that the abdication or the marrying a divorced American or the hanging out with Hitler, though?
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Old 07-17-2014, 05:01 PM   #26
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It's hard to separate the abdication, the divorcée, and the American. Even the Yorks, who felt most betrayed by the abdication, seem to have disliked Mrs Simpson. I think she patronised them.

The flirtation with Hitler was kept pretty secret until the Seventies.
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It's hard to separate the abdication, the divorcée, and the American. Even the Yorks, who felt most betrayed by the abdication, seem to have disliked Mrs Simpson. I think she patronised them.
It's hard to say what would of happened if he abdicated in order to become a vicar or something instead.
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The flirtation with Hitler was kept pretty secret until the Seventies.
Yeah, but I thought it did have something to do with the the government keeping him out of any official posts after the war.
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Old 07-17-2014, 05:24 PM   #28
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Yeah, but I thought it did have something to do with the the government keeping him out of any official posts after the war.
Possibly, but there are at least two other issues.

Nobody feels sure what the appropriate way is to treat an abdicated monarch, and etiquette was important to the upper classes of the time.

Second, he wasn't happy about being pushed out, and had never been someone with a close attachment to practical realities. "Loose cannon" is a phrase that leaps to mind when reading about his behaviour before becoming King. So he couldn't really be trusted to be a figurehead for anything without causing problems.
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Sorry. It was only a quip; I wouldn't want it to cause a derailment.
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