- Location
- USA
make a roll for something we auto pass!
Edit: Lol that crit
Edit: Lol that crit
I'm a High Fantasy Tax Collector, So What? A CKII Tax Collector Quest
- Thread starter hYGP
- Start date
- Original Fantasy
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- Tags
- death ck2 quest all proceeds go to real spiders are we revolutionaries or reactionaries today criminal justice discussion makes the gm fuzzy don't count your boats before they sail granary management if i lose my meows get me likes to replace them justice spider knock knock it's the finance ministry meows for discussion while supplies last taxation taxes this is not an empire quest
- Location
- Pittsburgh PA
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Roll?
- Location
- Earth
Ahem.
- Location
- Canada
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Rolling...OH COME ON!
- Location
- Canada
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Can we use minor boons post-roll?
- Location
- Somewhere over the rainbow
No. You have to plan to use them.
- Location
- Canada
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Dammit. Welp, this round is going well. Fingers crossed for the RER.
- Location
- USA
Been a while since I've seen schizo dice pop up in a Quest, especially on this scale.
Better than the dice hating our guts
Random Member
Gardener of Human Happiness
- Location
- Behind You
Can Random roll?
Edit: Perfectly balanced. Almost.
Edit: Perfectly balanced. Almost.
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- Location
- Somewhere over the rainbow
Right, let's take care of one last bit of bookkeeping then.
Succeeding at Synergistic Action (City Organizer) due to New Hero Unit
Succeeding at Cheaper Cost (Cost reduced from 20 Budget to 10 Budget)
Succeeding at Convincing Local Spirits (Increased Rewards from Spirit Actions).
As the person who rolled a critical, you get a choice between:
Succeeding at Synergistic Action (City Organizer) due to New Hero Unit
Succeeding at Cheaper Cost (Cost reduced from 20 Budget to 10 Budget)
Succeeding at Convincing Local Spirits (Increased Rewards from Spirit Actions).
- Location
- Southampton, Great Britain
- Pronouns
- He/Him
While it is your choice and not my choice in the end, I would strongly recommend the first one @Blonddude42. I feel that keeping people from starving (because the poor are going to starve from lack of food if this action fails) in addition to getting a hero unit to help us out is more useful than saving some budget or getting boosts from some of our piety actions.
- Location
- USA
New hero sounds fun. Might as well go for that one.
Yay, more disfunction from our lovely legal system: lenders able to move the due date of a loan up arbitrarily
- Location
- Attached to a wall
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Somebody raised the idea of re-negotiating the contracts for our mercenaries.
I don't think that that is a very good idea, because they also have their living expanses and it could be interpreted as a sign of hidden weakness of their employer. Which will make taking some 'side jobs' quite appealing.
I don't think that that is a very good idea, because they also have their living expanses and it could be interpreted as a sign of hidden weakness of their employer. Which will make taking some 'side jobs' quite appealing.
- Location
- Southampton, Great Britain
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I don't think you understand the situation or at least what the action entails. We would be adjusting the price to reality rather than the heavily inflated price we currently got. If that hurts their living expenses or is taken as a sign of weakness, then they are overly indulgent idiots who we don't want on the payroll because their expenses are out of wack and they would be ignoring the local economic situation that is causing chaos for everyone. Likewise if they decide to take side jobs. If they are the sort to do that, we don't want them on our pay roll, especially at the current price due to them being unreliable.
Either they are the sort to go along with a reasonable renegotiation of costs given the recent changes to the local situation or they are a bunch of unreliable idiots who we don't want to pay for as they are simultaneously expensive whilst we are unable to depend upon them. I am inclined to believe the former as I have faith in Kerrie's ability to get us some competent professionals.
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- Location
- Southampton, Great Britain
- Pronouns
- He/Him
We don't need any more dice rolls.
- Location
- Attached to a wall
- Pronouns
- She/Her
They are mercenaries and we can only use mercenaries. I don't think 'reliable' and 'mercenary' are traits that commonly occur in the same entity.
The trick in surviving as a mercenary is to stick to your boss for as long as there is nobody with more money, who can use that money to either pay you to run away you or a larger/ better group to scare you away.
- Location
- Southampton, Great Britain
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I would recommend studying history then because for a good portion of it, mercenaries have been some of the most reliable soldiers around and often the closest thing to professional soldiers that modern day armies use.
Edit: I should probably add a disclaimer that it does depend on the mercenaries in questions. Others were just in it for the money and couldn't be trusted while some were basically reliable, full-time professionals that could be depended upon so long as you had the money. Also the reliability of mercenaries was often a statement on the quality of the other available troops rather than anything to do with how good the mercenaries were.
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- Location
- Attached to a wall
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I concede my point, what I know of mercenaries is mostly derived from Machiavelli. Do you have any recommendations for when I've finished my current reading list?