[Ansteorra] ransoming

[Robert G. Ferrell]

On 10/28/2011 6:25 PM, Jean Paul de Sens wrote:

> Stefan, I've done several deeds that had Ransoms, the battle of the 30,
> Deeds at Gulf Wars, private deeds of arms with brother knights.

> In general, the idea is to make the item valuable via it's significance, not
> it's cost.  Also, the deeds were ransoms are given and taken usually have,
> ahem, expanded rule sets which encourage a higher level of violence to begin
> with.

Ransoms were a standard component of the Tournament of the Lions. In 
that context they didn't encourage any extra violence.

Cynric