Post by Jay Luo on Jun 27, 2011 14:10:17 GMT -5
There are really two features at work here, "MARRIAGE" and "CHANGING CLANS". They aren't exactly the same thing. Here are some OOC explanations for how these features work.
HOW MARRIAGE WORKS
* You can't get married if you're already married. (Foxwives are ignored for this purpose.)
* You can't get married if you're heavily tainted. (There's a heavy social stigma against this in Rokugan.)
* To get married requires jumping through some hoops to impress the family members of the person you are courting. What exactly this involves will vary depending on the family and the situation.
* Once you actually get married, you get your bride or husband as a special follower.
* I don't really have a mechanism for directly marrying another player character, and I'm not sure I will add one (it would be pretty complicated for something that would only get used a little). If you want to do something like this, I would suggest that both parties perform the "marry" actions appropriate for their intended spouse's clans, and RP that the marriage is to each other.
* Depending on your choice of spouse, you may get additional benefits. For Great Clans, this is going to be: an ally from that clan, and if your bride is from a different clan, you gain the ability to "marry into" that clan (i.e., join it). I'll probably define different benefits for other situations (Imperial marriages, marrying ronin or gaijin, etc.).
* You don't have to marry into the other clan. You can stay your current clan and have a Xxxx Clan bride and consider your Xxxx Ally to be your father-in-law or whatever.
* If you do marry into the other clan, you lose some glory (since your family implicitly is acknowledging your spouse to be more important, and you're changing your family name) and change clans.
HOW CHANGING CLANS WORKS
* You aren't really supposed to change clans very often, so opportunities to do so will be fairly limited.
* Changing clans will change your clan affiliation, your family name, and your school. Everything else will remain the same.
* In most cases, you will be given the choice of one of the new clan's schools to join.
* Your current skills (including all previously spent character points) are unchanged.
* Character points you spend in the future will use your new school skills.
HOW MARRIAGE WORKS
* You can't get married if you're already married. (Foxwives are ignored for this purpose.)
* You can't get married if you're heavily tainted. (There's a heavy social stigma against this in Rokugan.)
* To get married requires jumping through some hoops to impress the family members of the person you are courting. What exactly this involves will vary depending on the family and the situation.
* Once you actually get married, you get your bride or husband as a special follower.
* I don't really have a mechanism for directly marrying another player character, and I'm not sure I will add one (it would be pretty complicated for something that would only get used a little). If you want to do something like this, I would suggest that both parties perform the "marry" actions appropriate for their intended spouse's clans, and RP that the marriage is to each other.
* Depending on your choice of spouse, you may get additional benefits. For Great Clans, this is going to be: an ally from that clan, and if your bride is from a different clan, you gain the ability to "marry into" that clan (i.e., join it). I'll probably define different benefits for other situations (Imperial marriages, marrying ronin or gaijin, etc.).
* You don't have to marry into the other clan. You can stay your current clan and have a Xxxx Clan bride and consider your Xxxx Ally to be your father-in-law or whatever.
* If you do marry into the other clan, you lose some glory (since your family implicitly is acknowledging your spouse to be more important, and you're changing your family name) and change clans.
HOW CHANGING CLANS WORKS
* You aren't really supposed to change clans very often, so opportunities to do so will be fairly limited.
* Changing clans will change your clan affiliation, your family name, and your school. Everything else will remain the same.
* In most cases, you will be given the choice of one of the new clan's schools to join.
* Your current skills (including all previously spent character points) are unchanged.
* Character points you spend in the future will use your new school skills.