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Continuing a Dynasty

Praetors were normally in their late 30s when elected. Romans were expected to have a public career from praetor onward lasting 20 years, of which the last five were as Censor, or as Princeps Senatus (the oldest living member of the Senate still active in Rome’s affairs). However, Romans sometimes led armies into their sixties.

Each round, the players roll percentile dice. If the player scores a modified 00, the player dies or is sufficiently incapacitated that he retires from public life. Each two rounds add 2 to the die roll. For example, a PC in the 10th round dies on a 95-00. Add 5 in a province affected by a Wrath event. Add 5 if the player was wounded, or captured, in this round. This is cumulative.

When a player dies, or is incapacitated, or captured and can’t afford the ransom, or is exiled, he can start a new charcter. This character begins as a praetor again. However, if the player wishes, he may start as the political heir of his old character. Instead of rolling for family status (new man, old family etc) he receives 25 percent of the current gold available to his old character, plus a quarter of the positive prestige, but half of any negative prestige. The player must choose to be of the same PATRICIA or PLEBS family status as his original character. The estates income for the PC remains the same.

On a 1d6 roll of 5,6, the new character is the adopted son of the old character, and gains ½ of the gold but the same prestige.

If the original character survived 20 rounds or more, then on a 5,6 the new character is the natural son of the old character, and receives ¾ of the gold but the same prestige.

If the political heir is a son of the original character, and he breaks any agreement formulated by his father in the first 5 rounds of the game, he is considered infidelis and loses 50 prestige.