Arcane Nobility

hcobb · 03-01-2023, 04:25 AM

This is a way common trope that's easy to run as a TFT variant.

The only "game change" is that Wizardry is hereditary to the ruling class. Any commoner who is a wizard will at least be rumored to be a bastard child of some noble and in the vast majority of cases this is actually true. These low born wizards will struggle to learn talents and might even start with no spells or if they are very lucky, just a few. PCs can also be from fallen noble families with only a thousand silvers' net worth.

On the NPC side the entire principality is run in the name of the princess in the tower, but without her direct knowledge. (She's too busy reading spell books, doing enchantments, and getting dragged away from her mystic research to be cleaned up nicely for meet and greets.) She has a coven of cousins that act as her apprentices while she teaches them spells. These then graduate to either be the figureheads of various feudal houses, or hang around the court running schemes. The Prime Minister is expected to somehow run the country between the demands of the merchant selected members of parliament and the constraints of a nobility who think turning people into toads is a party trick.

The excess children of the nobility (beyond the needs of the land, sea, and air military forces) are sent off to the church as seen on Earth.

03-01-2023, 04:25 AM	#1
hcobb Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Pacheco, California	Arcane Nobility This is a way common trope that's easy to run as a TFT variant. The only "game change" is that Wizardry is hereditary to the ruling class. Any commoner who is a wizard will at least be rumored to be a bastard child of some noble and in the vast majority of cases this is actually true. These low born wizards will struggle to learn talents and might even start with no spells or if they are very lucky, just a few. PCs can also be from fallen noble families with only a thousand silvers' net worth. On the NPC side the entire principality is run in the name of the princess in the tower, but without her direct knowledge. (She's too busy reading spell books, doing enchantments, and getting dragged away from her mystic research to be cleaned up nicely for meet and greets.) She has a coven of cousins that act as her apprentices while she teaches them spells. These then graduate to either be the figureheads of various feudal houses, or hang around the court running schemes. The Prime Minister is expected to somehow run the country between the demands of the merchant selected members of parliament and the constraints of a nobility who think turning people into toads is a party trick. The excess children of the nobility (beyond the needs of the land, sea, and air military forces) are sent off to the church as seen on Earth. __________________ -HJC Last edited by hcobb; 03-01-2023 at 10:42 AM.