City Building and Realm Management vs Dice Probability Ranges

[ShirraWhitefur]

Originally Posted by Peter Knutsen

Say I bid 3 points towards increasing the number of Scribe-Hours output by my Monastery. I've made a deal with you, earlier, that you'll contribute 2 points to it, so that we get the full 5 points necessary for a +1 modifier, but you turn out to be a vicious bastard and instead you bid 1 point against my bid, so that the point total is not 5 but only 2, and now I have both the trouble of scrounging up the remaining 3 points I need (presumably bid-but-unused points deterioate after some years, so I'm in a bit of a hurry), and at the same time I need to get revenge on you, teach you a lesson. And maybe I'm also curious enough to want to know why you backstabbed me. Depends a bit on what disads are written on my character sheet...

:) That's -exactly- how I want to see it used. That's the sort of thing, the diplomatic 'fun' and intrigue withen the system. It's going to either end up with a lot of wars being started.. or a lot more sneaky wheel and deal amongst the players.

So yeah.. a nice, consistent fractional point setup.. later on, I will work out more on how the points are going to be generated overall, but the idea is that they're going to be valuable, rather than 'spend on every single thing in large amounts'.

This definitely could work though, and solves one of the 'hiccups' in my planning.

- Shirra