Who Needs Harmony?: An MLP Empire Quest
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[X] The Young Scholar: Your son shall spend his days amidst the tomes and scrolls of the Royal library and archives, familiarizing himself with the sciences and the arts, and imbuing him with a head for numbers. +Learning, +Stewardship, -Intrigue
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That peckish, patriotic, Protestant passerine.
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- United States of America
[X] The Young Scholar: Your son shall spend his days amidst the tomes and scrolls of the Royal library and archives, familiarizing himself with the sciences and the arts, and imbuing him with a head for numbers. +Learning, +Stewardship, -Intrigue
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The Architect
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- The Netherlands
[X] The Gilded Gryphon: Your son shall follow in your footsteps, learning the intricate and complicated laws of the market, tutored by bankers, burghers, merchants, and other industrious fortune-builders. +Diplomacy, +Stewardship, -Martial
The second child is martial, the third is the scholar, possibly the other way arround.
The first child is raised to rule a kingdom.
The second child is martial, the third is the scholar, possibly the other way arround.
The first child is raised to rule a kingdom.
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- Back in Cali
And how is teaching our son the importance of stewardship and education not to mention improving the odds to roll well on the Genius trait not setting him up to be a ruler?
So we have the talks to unify set up and a missing spymaster who took aquelias treasury with her. I just hope she was just greedy and ran off with the treasury.
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- Back in Cali
Alright then. It gets rolled anyways because it is an inheritable trait. I am just trying to get the best chance for that roll so we can get +4 to martial and diplomacy, and a +2 to everything else.
Where are you guys getting this from I keep hearing that scholar will increase the chance that he gets genius why? I can find no evidence of it at all.
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- Back in Cali
We still need to roll to see if he inherited our genius trait. Going for the action that focuses on education and how to running things has the best chance to improve the odds of the roll.
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- Denmark
[X] The Gilded Gryphon: Your son shall follow in your footsteps, learning the intricate and complicated laws of the market, tutored by bankers, burghers, merchants, and other industrious fortune-builders. +Diplomacy, +Stewardship, -Martial
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- Maryland
The Young Scholar scrapes out a victory, just barely. I'll roll the dice, but it will be a while until you actually get to see his stats, and even longer until his stats reach their full development. Can't have a child with higher stats than his parents now.
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- Back in Cali
27 Gilded vs 30 Scholar.
I ended up voting for Scholar in the end independently of this claim, but I would really want some proof that the education-focus can actually increase the chance of our child inheriting/gaining Genius.
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- Back in Cali
It works with the narrative of a genius. By putting our son in as many situations where he can show his genius that means it should translate mechanically to a higher chance to inherit from us.
If your only point is narrative to justify a genetic trait, I feel skeptical.
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- Back in Cali
It is not all mechanics narrative has a large part to play as well. Being skeptical is fine. I also want to try and improve our tech and infrastructure as much as possible as well. We have Urbrido which should follow it's real world inspiration and be a very early adopter of the Renaissance and became a major center of culture and learning. I want to leverage that as much as possible to make up for our lack of magic.
Making unsubstantiated claims as fact is not in fact fine.
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I think that he thought that with us as his father our son will have access to the merchant knowledge and our wife will probably take part in raising him as well teaching him about martial knowledge, add to that that we will expose him to the scholars at the weary young age and you have a kid that is somewhat proficient at everything.