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From: ncg@ukc.UUCP (N.C.Gale)
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Subject: Extra Rules for En Garde
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Date: Thu, 25-Apr-85 05:26:04 EST
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Reply-To: ncg@ukc.UUCP (Nigel Gale)
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Someone asked me for some extra rules to spice up EnGarde.

1.Estates General.
This is the French Parliament. Representatives are elected by the players
and the non-player electorate (who are largely random, but can be influenced,
bribed, swayed by expensive publicity). Constituancies are divided by
Social Level...

this is a superb rule, as it means that higher social level Party leaders
have to consort with lower level characters in order to stay in power.
How much power they have when in power is up to you (most affairs of state
will still be handled by the Minister of State, appointed by the King)

2.Marriage.
Once you have won a mistress, you may marry her. This means you are stuck
with her for life, long after she is no longer any good to you.
You can go and court another mistress, but if you are caught, you are in
disgrace. Once you overtake your wife's Social level,you require *four*
times the next Social Level in status points to go up a Social Level, but then
so does she.
There are rules, I think, for receiving a dowry when you marry.
The wedding is certainly a big, expensive social event with lots of
toadying to be had.
If you get a mistress pregnant, then you either marry her, or you are
disgraceful.

3.Social Diseases.
Can be picked up originally from a visit to a bawdyhouse, and then passed
to mistresses, and to other players. Plenty of status to be lost -
a good way for a weed to get even with a bully - just goes off and passes
a nasty rash to his mistress.


excuse me one moment, our vax is about to crash