2.0 Covenant Design Thread

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@Ravenscroft

Btw , i'm getting a bit confused as to where to post things.

I agree that it has become a bit convoluted. Post discussion about covenant design here. Post character sheets, locations from your backstory, and other story information in the wiki. Enter the story by starting a "2.1 Prelude - Serrano" thread or by arriving at Cijara / Phoenix Covenant in that prelude thread. For anything else, start a new thread.

The 100 pounds Serrano has will be for basic upkeep of the entertainers he has with him.
(02 pounds of silver per each person per year)

They will not be an entire troupe , but some of the older married members , with young children.
Not sure on numbers , but it wont be more than 12 or so , i think , an extended family group.
Two married couples (cousins/brother/sister) with 3 children each , one grandmother (matriarch)
and an older cousin with an ageing bear (of the dancing variety) (animal companion).
They have cousins (1st & 2nd or so) in the area to make contact with.
3 or 4 of them wil have the local language as native.
If possible , i would like the same 3 or 4 to have some Latin (not taught by Serrano)
For a teacher i was considering a Baccalaureate student from the University in Paris.
(we gained him on the pilgrim route)
But as i didnt spend any points on a specialist , maybe he can be a Companion.

This is technically a violation of the 9-person party limit I had set up, but since the kids and grandmother count as "dependants" I'm going to allow it.

Latin is a scholarly language, so it feels unlikely that so many entertainers in your party would have it without a backstory reason. In other words, if/when they get full character sheets, they need to have a merit which explicitly permits them to learn Latin. Please pick these now, and a flaw to balance them, but you don't need to finish writing out their characters until it seems necessary.

If your teacher know Latin, then we can say he spent the last season teaching them the rudiments (Latin 1) while you traveled to Phoenix.

Only because I'm tired of doing prep-work for the game and want to start, I'd prefer you to wiggle your numbers so that you can pay points for him as a specialist. My suggestion would be to drop the The Motivated Plow (unlikely gift for an entertaining troupe) and either the Magical Oven or the Enchanted Chef (redundant). However, if you haven't selected a companion yet, then you can ask someone to take him as your companion (and I just realized that I still haven't selected a companion yet). I just don't want it to delay the game any longer.

So they are married , Christian , Pious (at least +03) , enough to keep up appearances.

Doesn't Pious +3 mean extremely pious? It's a personality trait, right?

As part of his background , during his apprenticeship , Serrano was not taught in a single covenant.
His Skilled Parens , trading use of Rego Craft skills with various covenants for training and lab use.

As a troupe of entertainers will seek a benefactor for shelter during winter , or a town ,
Serrano will have continued his Parens routine of trading his skills with various Covenants ,
or getting someone to make a deal with a Clothier in a town.

That all sounds good. I'm still really curious as to where you're going with all of this, and not entirely sure what sort of stories to make up for you. I'm really interested though. I find Serrano's concept fascinating, and he's proving to be exactly the sort of conceptual challenge that I want in a game I run. I encourage you to suggest story seeds for Serrano whenever you think of any, either in a separate thread or by PM.

The married couples will also like to have non-mobile homes for a change.
Possessions will include wagons and horses , most of the props will be with the main troupe on the road.
Serrano having helped pay for some better quality horses over the past 05 years.

This reminds to me post a new thread on population questions I have about the covenant. Finding homes for all the incoming grogs and companions will probably be a significant part of Chapter 1.

@JeanMichelle

I still have to design an item that yields 2p/vis year

My items are two crystal lenses...

Sounds good to me! Why two lenses instead of one? I love the flavor you add to all your mechanics. Just give 'em a name.

@The Fixer

The 150 points of things Hiems will bring, downgraded to 100 as I said:

BOOKS (61 points):
Tractatus; Q: 10; Topic: Order of Hermes Lore; Language: Latin; Author: Norbert Gunthar ex Verditus

Oh, I do love it when people work in pre-existing characters!

SPECIALISTS (25 points)[/b]
Like I said, although I designed these 2 as grogs, I felt I had to include them as specialists, due to their high level of skill and usefulness.
Cecilia, Cook and Spy 12
Com: 3; Teaching: 0; Highest Ability Score: 9
Esteban, Doctor grog 13
Com: 2; Teaching: 2; Highest Ability Score: 9

Cecilia, with no teaching score, only costs 9 points.