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The thing about republics:


Finally, after a good while, a lot of tyranny and truce breaking modifiers, some severe dishonorable modifiers for showering my enemies (and my fellow patrician families) with assassins, and a single major revolt (I expected more to be fully honest), between a few generation of rulers, I managed to unify and organize my realm, form the Empire of Scandinavia (well, the principality of Scandinavia actually ), finally press the claim of my anti-pope against the pope, making the pope downright my vassal.

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Finally trying my hand at a republic, I'm now at 1198 from first 1066 start (yes, England is Norway's now. Except the city of London. That's mine. ), playing the republic of gotland, I gotta say, DAMN I make I lot of money. I keep around 50 gold per month, after paying my heavy family dues (oh the cost of having 23 trading posts... ). I'm pretty sure if were not the death blobs around I'd be the premier power around. I can certainly beat my previous liege, Sweden, around like a ragdoll, and most likely can do the same with Norway (although I'm slightly less certain given they can grab troops from the England as well), and that's even before considering the ridiculous amounts of mercenaries I can hire if I get some time to prepare (and/or arrange the death of some older and richer dynasty members ).

Hell, my next plans are either conquering Denmark or Conquering Sweden, I just can't decide which.

On a sidenote: Just to confirm: The "designated heir" title is exclusive to republics right? I can't suddenly use it to make it ridiculously easier to pick a heir in a feudal kingdom, or can I?

Yet, in game the Believers not only get a research Malus, they are ridiculously over aggressive. Sure sure, "stopping evil", but given Miriam loves her crusades gameplay-wise, it's generally, in the best case, the imperialistic "let's invade them to stop their internal evil" kind, which is, at best, quite suspect.

Quote from: Felius on June 21, 2013, 09:32:27 am

Quote from: Neonivek on June 20, 2013, 04:39:53 am

Yes but I didn't actually play dnd basic. In fact when I first started playing pen and paper RPGs 3.5 was out.

And yet this game was based on D&D classic, and used its conventions.

Thanks for random comment Felius!

You are welcome. :p

But seriously, you were the one that complained that this game was responsible for the trend of making races and classes the same, which was pointed as coming from old D&D, upon which you mentioned you never played old D&D, which doesn't stop the game from taking the tropes from that which it was based, that is, old D&D, which includes races as classes.