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Started by Martinus, October 02, 2009, 03:02:42 PM

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Martinus

October 02, 2009, 03:02:42 PM
So having seen "Tudors" and "Edward II", I came to a conclusion that I would be a rather lousy monarch. Probably capricious, moody, bestowing honors and gifts on my boytoys and beheading people left and right if they pissed me off (which would be daily). :P

How about you?

P.S. This is technically a drunk thread since I'm inebriated. :P

Josquius

#1
October 02, 2009, 03:03:13 PM
Yes. Yes I would.
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Martinus

#2
October 02, 2009, 03:03:36 PM
Please justify your answer. :P

Malthus

#3
October 02, 2009, 03:05:26 PM
Just don't end up like Edward II. That was a little *too* kinky.  :unsure:
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Syt

#4
October 02, 2009, 03:05:45 PM
I would be the degenerate lovechild of Bluebeard and Vlad Tepes.
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Martinus

#5
October 02, 2009, 03:06:22 PM
Quote from: Malthus on October 02, 2009, 03:05:26 PM
Just don't end up like Edward II. That was a little *too* kinky.  :unsure:

Maybe my aversion to anal means I was Edward II in past life?  :huh:

Neil

#6
October 02, 2009, 03:07:56 PM
Yes.  Authority flows naturally from me, as do equal measures of revolutionary, proper ideas and self-restraint.

To be both King and God, now wouldn't that be something?
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Barrister

#7
October 02, 2009, 03:11:19 PM
Since I have considerable experience appears as an agent of the monarch, yes I would.  :)
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Lettow77

#8
October 02, 2009, 03:12:42 PM
 I would rule from a sense of justice rather than personal interest, and I would try not to let my moral convictions become that of official policy, subjugating others to my will.

as a proponent of small government, I think i'd be a fine monarch.
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Viking

#9
October 02, 2009, 03:17:31 PM
my rule would collapse into chaos when my newly created pseudo democratic institutions and old school conservatives would go to civil war against me on the grounds of my hedonism, atheism, and splurging on stuff like canals, roads, harbours, professorships and sponsorship of heretics and foreign crackpots.
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First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

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Slargos

#10
October 02, 2009, 03:23:23 PM
Quote from: Viking on October 02, 2009, 03:17:31 PM
my rule would collapse into chaos when my newly created pseudo democratic institutions and old school conservatives would go to civil war against me on the grounds of my hedonism, atheism, and splurging on stuff like canals, roads, harbours, professorships and sponsorship of heretics and foreign crackpots.

Sic Semper Tyrranis!  :bowler:

HVC

#11
October 02, 2009, 03:29:34 PM
I dislike making decisions so I'd probably surround myself with advisors. Depending on how good my choices are i'd either been seen as a great king, or beheaded.
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
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Razgovory

#12
October 02, 2009, 03:31:21 PM
Like what kind of monarch?  Like the emperor of Japan who doesn't do anything?  I can do that.  Like a medieval monarch?  I'd probably be like Louis XI or Charles the V if I do well, Charles VI if I'm not so good.  Probably a mix like Ivan IV.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Savonarola

#13
October 02, 2009, 03:39:51 PM
No, I'd probably end up sharing the same fate as Prospero.   :(
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Eddie Teach

#14
October 02, 2009, 03:41:50 PM
No, I'm too nice.
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