Yhinnie
08-23-2008, 02:27 AM
Menzoberranzan of Darkfall (Alfar city, multi House ruling)
While reading R. A Salvatores the legend of Drizzt, i came to love the politics and rules of his City of Birth, and have since wanted to emulate that type of city in a MMO, a city full of murder, deceit, extortion and all round crappyness, so I thought of this for a while. I city divided into portions, dividing the different House’s “Guilds” into the city. While three of the house’s stand in the ruling city council, these are the houses that have done the most advancing and have rightfully earned it, and are considered “the most "favored of Melek” in the city.
I’ll get into how a lower House can advance later. Whether it will be a Matriarch/Patriarch or “more or less” dictatorship will be determined later.
Rules
- Main rule, DON’T GET CAUGHT, go ahead a murder, steal and be evil to your hearts content. There are SOME exception, Don’t kill ruling house member(will be more later), actually that’s about it.
-If caught, the witness can either A: Blackmail. B: Tell the players House of the victim along with the victim himself (best suited if you are part of that house too, otherwise it is considered a “Good” act)
Politics
- The three top Houses will decide such things as Building payments, mainly city management, the biggest advantage of being in favour of Melek is having immunity, if a player kills someone in the ruling house, the PK will be severely punished, even if you weren’t caught. The punishment if even more severe if it’s a house leader.
-For those that aren’t in Favor of Melek, you will have to lie, cheat and kill to climb, Best way is to attack a higher house, perhaps one that is in a weakened state, these attacks will be best if they are Fast, Relatively secret {sure, the city may be watching, but so long as the objective is complete quickly and above all, efficiently, they will be considered ‘spectators’ and not witnessed, anyone who has raid Homeland will know what im talking about}
-objective, Kill the House leader, and the main officers of the house as fast as possible, However, if everyone of the attacking house is defeated it is considered a failure and your house will move down a rank to show “weakened”. Sorry, and good luck next time.
-If, however the attacking house succeeds then the attacking house and defending house trade city house ranking (ie, house A of rank 4 gets defeated by the house B in rank 7, then B moves to rank 4 while A moves to 7.) However its more likely that it would be more like house rank 4 gets attacked by house rank 5. As house A has more power then house B in that scenario so such a large jump in rank would hopefully be unlikely.
Punishment
In accordance to the severity to the crime, if a House leader up and decides to kill a lower house player for no reason, it is not deputed nor noticed, what’s that lower house member doing getting in the way of nobility of a higher ranking house Any ways? (Please note that there will be NO Looting fellow Alfar, to keep at least that part balanced and fair for everyone.)
-if a player kills another player that isn’t a Favored and ISN’T caught, so long as there is no punishment and is seen as a “accidental death”.
-IF caught, the victim gets one free kill, in public against the “Criminal” at least twice over. Again NO LOOTING.
-If Someone kills a Noble, you better hope to no one sees you do it, including the victim!
If the victim sees who did it, he has the right to take action against you and with the backing of the ruling houses. Includes one kill with looting, and a currency charge, and a hour or two playtime exile outside of the city. Again, your good to kill them, just DON’T GET CAUGHT, not even by the victim. (This is why the rulling houses have immunity, sure, you MIGHT be able to get away with it, but if your caught, even by the victim it will bring in hefty punishment”
-Killing a house leader is strictly prohibited, if caught you will get a exile immediately and a KoS tag, if not caught then there will be a investigation and hopefully a turnup (even if not caught they will try to figure out who did it.) This is the same for ALL houses, from the top three to the lowest.
-All these rules are disregarded if the houses are in the middle of a war “attack and Defend, See Politics”
-if a player is spotted Role playing a goody goody, lawful, neutral or chaotic good, then they will Be sacrificed for Melek, so THOSE players better leave.
Goody goody (I.E a player helping out a lower house member for nothing in return, a player who stand for Justice and good, protecting the weak and helping those who cannot defend them self) my god man, you’re a alfar, your evil, blood thirsty and hate filled, act like it.
Sacrifices for Melek (rituals and chants)
I will take suggestion and thoughts about this one, i would like to see Fanatics in this city.
Conclusion
Well, that’s about as much as I could think of so far, and though i don’t REALLY see this happening in game, I would LOVE if it did and would even create a Matriarch alfar house myself “Sure, I'm a guy, but I just want to role pay the closest thing to a Drow in a open ended game as i can find atm.
Now, Some thoughts and opinions, and if anyone has anything to add i would love to see it, NO FORUM TROLLS PLEASE, I’LL JUST HAVE THEM IGNORED OR REMOVED.
While reading R. A Salvatores the legend of Drizzt, i came to love the politics and rules of his City of Birth, and have since wanted to emulate that type of city in a MMO, a city full of murder, deceit, extortion and all round crappyness, so I thought of this for a while. I city divided into portions, dividing the different House’s “Guilds” into the city. While three of the house’s stand in the ruling city council, these are the houses that have done the most advancing and have rightfully earned it, and are considered “the most "favored of Melek” in the city.
I’ll get into how a lower House can advance later. Whether it will be a Matriarch/Patriarch or “more or less” dictatorship will be determined later.
Rules
- Main rule, DON’T GET CAUGHT, go ahead a murder, steal and be evil to your hearts content. There are SOME exception, Don’t kill ruling house member(will be more later), actually that’s about it.
-If caught, the witness can either A: Blackmail. B: Tell the players House of the victim along with the victim himself (best suited if you are part of that house too, otherwise it is considered a “Good” act)
Politics
- The three top Houses will decide such things as Building payments, mainly city management, the biggest advantage of being in favour of Melek is having immunity, if a player kills someone in the ruling house, the PK will be severely punished, even if you weren’t caught. The punishment if even more severe if it’s a house leader.
-For those that aren’t in Favor of Melek, you will have to lie, cheat and kill to climb, Best way is to attack a higher house, perhaps one that is in a weakened state, these attacks will be best if they are Fast, Relatively secret {sure, the city may be watching, but so long as the objective is complete quickly and above all, efficiently, they will be considered ‘spectators’ and not witnessed, anyone who has raid Homeland will know what im talking about}
-objective, Kill the House leader, and the main officers of the house as fast as possible, However, if everyone of the attacking house is defeated it is considered a failure and your house will move down a rank to show “weakened”. Sorry, and good luck next time.
-If, however the attacking house succeeds then the attacking house and defending house trade city house ranking (ie, house A of rank 4 gets defeated by the house B in rank 7, then B moves to rank 4 while A moves to 7.) However its more likely that it would be more like house rank 4 gets attacked by house rank 5. As house A has more power then house B in that scenario so such a large jump in rank would hopefully be unlikely.
Punishment
In accordance to the severity to the crime, if a House leader up and decides to kill a lower house player for no reason, it is not deputed nor noticed, what’s that lower house member doing getting in the way of nobility of a higher ranking house Any ways? (Please note that there will be NO Looting fellow Alfar, to keep at least that part balanced and fair for everyone.)
-if a player kills another player that isn’t a Favored and ISN’T caught, so long as there is no punishment and is seen as a “accidental death”.
-IF caught, the victim gets one free kill, in public against the “Criminal” at least twice over. Again NO LOOTING.
-If Someone kills a Noble, you better hope to no one sees you do it, including the victim!
If the victim sees who did it, he has the right to take action against you and with the backing of the ruling houses. Includes one kill with looting, and a currency charge, and a hour or two playtime exile outside of the city. Again, your good to kill them, just DON’T GET CAUGHT, not even by the victim. (This is why the rulling houses have immunity, sure, you MIGHT be able to get away with it, but if your caught, even by the victim it will bring in hefty punishment”
-Killing a house leader is strictly prohibited, if caught you will get a exile immediately and a KoS tag, if not caught then there will be a investigation and hopefully a turnup (even if not caught they will try to figure out who did it.) This is the same for ALL houses, from the top three to the lowest.
-All these rules are disregarded if the houses are in the middle of a war “attack and Defend, See Politics”
-if a player is spotted Role playing a goody goody, lawful, neutral or chaotic good, then they will Be sacrificed for Melek, so THOSE players better leave.
Goody goody (I.E a player helping out a lower house member for nothing in return, a player who stand for Justice and good, protecting the weak and helping those who cannot defend them self) my god man, you’re a alfar, your evil, blood thirsty and hate filled, act like it.
Sacrifices for Melek (rituals and chants)
I will take suggestion and thoughts about this one, i would like to see Fanatics in this city.
Conclusion
Well, that’s about as much as I could think of so far, and though i don’t REALLY see this happening in game, I would LOVE if it did and would even create a Matriarch alfar house myself “Sure, I'm a guy, but I just want to role pay the closest thing to a Drow in a open ended game as i can find atm.
Now, Some thoughts and opinions, and if anyone has anything to add i would love to see it, NO FORUM TROLLS PLEASE, I’LL JUST HAVE THEM IGNORED OR REMOVED.