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A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover

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Azel said:
I was always under the impression that we had taken care of arranging for pensions for those to old and unfit to serve.
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I can't think of any place where it was mentioned, but if you guys are sure it aught to have existed I could see how it might be so. Like I'm not wedded to the idea of no pensions, it is just something that occurred to me as a thing that would be a Westerosi idea going east rather than the far more common inverse.
 
DragonParadox said:
I can't think of any place where it was mentioned, but if you guys are sure it aught to have existed I could see how it might be so. Like I'm not wedded to the idea of no pensions, it is just something that occurred to me as a thing that would be a Westerosi idea going east rather than the far more common inverse.
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I don't think we ever explicitly made one for civil servants, but given that we had one for Legionaires, it should have come up long ago if we had none.
 
Quick question. What are we going to do with Tywin Lannister?

Soul death or recycle his soul into a new being? One with no recollection or connection of his past?
I really don't think we should be sending him to a hell if we're making an imperial afterlife.
But neither does he deserve to go into a final rest.
 
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I also don't remember it being discussed, but it could have been at some point. However, other then some military pensions, and some widows pensions, largely the idea of civil service pension didn't come into practice until after the 1880s in Germany, which suggests to me that it wouldn't be a general expectation nor something that is simply set up. Either way, does anyone have thoughts on the idea of trying to establish norms, or being seen as accepting advice?
 
I'm strongly against any of those "review every n years" plans since in practice that will amount to people expecting the posts to be actually reshuffled then, which we might not want. It also ensures that there will be a bulk decision again where we have to reshuffle multiple ministers, which is highly undesirable. Transitions should be spaced out to ease frictions.
 
One thing to keep in mind about Sorcerer's Deep, along with the entire island it sit upon, is that the Greater Age Resistance effect generated by the Dawn Tree means that everyone living there is protected from all of the detrimental effects of aging. That, combined with freely available magical healing, basically extends everyone's lifespan to the maximum allowed by their race. Humans, for example, are going to live to be 110, barring extreme outliers and those capable of cheating via magic, and they'll be healthy and productive right up until the end. No long, slow decline into decrepitude and feebleness.

Citizen's anywhere else in the Imperium will benefit from the magical healing, which will mitigate the effects of aging, but nowhere save Sorcerer's Deep will be so blessed.

As the years pass and people begin to realize this, property values across the island are going to skyrocket. We'll also start to see the capital becoming home to world renowned experts in various fields, from arts and crafts, to magic and the sciences, even more so than is already the case. When people can live for decades past what would normally be expected and never experience the ravages of age, it gives them much more time to learn and grow. The number of Expert NPCs who will eventually break the 5th level soft cap and push all the way to 10th through simply living their lives will probably be very high because of this.
 
Goldfish said:
110
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In D&D, mechanically, it's actually 120.

Right now property values in Sorcerer's Deep are a nebulous thing, because housing is subsidized by the state, and no one's going to want to give up their home for anything. It's a thing that virtually guarantees their family near-modern comfort in some respects and superior than in others.

The State provides in a big way. Thousands of people are moving to the islands every month. It will be a highly urbanized place within a single generation due to magical construction.
 
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Question, is our recruitment of Elswyth the Mythic dryad leader of the Goldenwood court still going to happen? Or is that something to be assume to happen in the background?
 
Ok just wondering. I'll admit it's Pokémon collecting but i personally want to recruit Elswyths court/ the Fey forge court/ the Old Man of the River out of spite to poke the eye of the remains of the Court of Stars.

Look how much the Imperium fey allies are benefitting!
 
silvanknight said:
Ok just wondering. I'll admit it's Pokémon collecting but i personally want to recruit Elswyths court/ the Fey forge court/ the Old Man of the River out of spite to poke the eye of the remains of the Court of Stars.

Look how much the Imperium fey allies are benefitting!
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Not much point to spite... we already ruthlessly murdered all of the people in charge or forced the survivors to join under gunpoint.
 
silvanknight said:
Ok just wondering. I'll admit it's Pokémon collecting but i personally want to recruit Elswyths court/ the Fey forge court/ the Old Man of the River out of spite to poke the eye of the remains of the Court of Stars.

Look how much the Imperium fey allies are benefitting!
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We do need to get around to them officially bending the knee to Viserys now that the Imperium has finally conquered Westeros.
 
DragonParadox said:
Did you ever get that feeling like you are a dorf in Dwarf Fortress 'DragonParadox is in a fey mood' kind of thing, because I have the strongest temptation to try to reboot Kings of Men even though I know I do not have the time for a third quest. I swear sometimes my muse just seems to me more in the business of teasing than inspiring :V
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I would very much love to see a reboot of that. It was the one that led me to this quest after all.

[X] Azel
 
Setting a term limit might be a good choice.
I'm kinda afraid of the assasination attempts that's going to happen to the Ministers by jealous lords and nobles and such.
 
Daredevil_Dave said:
Setting a term limit might be a good choice.
I'm kinda afraid of the assasination attempts that's going to happen to the Ministers by jealous lords and nobles and such.
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Within our Government? With the Inquisition right at the heart of our Capitol? And Divination and Necromancy so close at hand?

What sort of insipid bastard would ever done such stupidity?
 
Daredevil_Dave said:
Setting a term limit might be a good choice.
I'm kinda afraid of the assasination attempts that's going to happen to the Ministers by jealous lords and nobles and such.
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There are apparatuses in place to handle such failures in judgement.

I don't think we should worry about term limits quite yet. The Imperium is quite young, so it's too early to determine whether such measures would be necessary or helpful. The concept would be fairly alien to everyone involved as well.
 
Jack vile Ripper said:
Within our Government? With the Inquisition right at the heart of our Capitol? And Divination and Necromancy so close at hand?

What sort of insipid bastard would ever done such stupidity?
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You say that like there is... or, at least, was... any shortage of self-righteous persons in Westeros who are *exactly* that stupid. Septons, Knights, even Lords.
 
I'm against term limits. In some cases -- not all, but still some -- the best person for the job stays the best person for the job. No need to arbitrarily restrict ourselves just to placate the lordlings.
 
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