There’s a few core player fantasies we tried to keep in mind here, giving each mechanics and a chance to shine: Unless, of course, they’re a child or incapable, in which case… yeah, that needs to be a bit more important (and, perhaps, threatening).įrom the regent’s POV, we wanted to give you more opportunity to use and abuse your power.
Their job was to shepherd the realm when the actual ruler was otherwise indisposed, giving them a tremendous amount of power and authority but a fairly precarious base for such.Ĭapturing the full scope and scale of the power wielded by someone essentially appointed as a stand-in for the liege was a big ask, and something we tried to frame as about providing interesting obstacles to overcome whilst trying to model some of the importance attached to the position.Īt the same time, this expansion’s shining stars are activities, so we needed regencies to be interesting and engaging _without_ making the player afraid to ever leave home for fear of a coup, or distracting too much from whatever urgent business called them away from their realm to begin with. If you’re after strict in-game stuff, you can spin on to the next section.Ī regent, or an expected regent, was a figure of huge importance and subject to plenty of political intrigue - not to mention being one of the more prominent ways for unlanded women to exert soft power on behalf of family members. Welcome, comrades! First up today we’ll be talking about a subject _very_ dear to my heart, and that’s regencies - what happens when you can’t effectively rule your realm, either because you’re out travelling or because you are a small baby with lacking social skills.ĭesign EthosFirst up, I’d like to go over a little of what was in our minds when we were designing this system, what we were trying to achieve, and what parameters we set ourselves.
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