Unless otherwise specifically altered or contradicted in these house rule pages, the rules found in the 5th Edition Hero System apply at all times.

Follower:  The Follower perquisite can be used to simulate apprentices, animal compaions, faithful steeds, squires, and wizardly familiars.

Guild Member: Belonging to a guild grants many benefits.  It gives the character the right to practice a particular profession or sell particular types of goods within the Guilds area of control.  It also gives the character access to the guild's collected knowledge and wisdom in guild-related areas.  Lastly, it could get the character access to resources he otherwise could not afford by himself.

On the other hand, guild membership comes with certain responsibilities.  Typically, the character must pay dues.  The guild may call upon the character to help train junior members, or require him to take on apprentices.  And if the guild enters into a trade war, he has to fight even if he'd rather not.

For successful guild members, the Money, Contacts, and Favors perquisites are also appropriate.

Money:

• This perquisite may only be taken with approval of the GM.

• Rather than grant a regular income, this perquisite grants the character a bonus to his starting funds, as follows:

As most wealthy people in Taranche are nobles or the sons and daughters of wealthy merchants, all characters who have this perquisite must justify its possession in their character's background and abilities.

Nobility: This perquisite represents a character's position the upper levels of a fuedal society's social hierarchy.  Most nobles are also wealthy, and thus the Money perquisite and the Base perquisite (representing some sort of familial demense) are appropriate.  This is hardly a hard and fast rule; in Taranche there are more than a few down-on-their luck nobles who own nothing but their name, their title, and perhaps a horse.

On the other hand with the privileges of nobility come with comensurate responsibilities: if the character owns an estate, he must care for the commoners who live on that estate.  Unless he is royalty, the character must pay taxes to an even more powerful noble, and often owes other duties to this liege lord (including military service, the maintenance of roads, and the provision and training of a band of men-at-arms.  The noble may also have the duty to administer low justice (that is, rule over cases involving commoners).

Should the noble character neglect his duties, he will suffer the wrath of his liege lord.  Depending on the severity of the offense, the liege lord may merely punish the character with a fine or a quest of pennance.  At worst, the liege may strip the character of title and rank, and then imprison, banish, or even execute the offender.

Generally, the sons of lower nobles count as a noble rank valued at one point less than their parent's rank.  Knighthood is the exception, as it is not an inherited rank.  GM permission must be acquired before a character can take this Perquisite.

Vehicles:  Since the Young Kingdoms PBEMs are Heroic Level games, characters do not have to purchase vehicles with points.  Rather, they are purchased with money.