The Rulership Quiz

1. A local leader from one of the smaller villages reports that his people will not have enough food to make it through the winter.
Berate the peasant for wasting your time and have him executed.
Donate some of your own funds to aid the starving villagers.
Arrange to have food shipped from one of the more prosperous towns to the village.
Conscript some of the villagers into the army so the village has fewer people to feed.
2. A minor religious leader has begun using his church sermons to criticize some of your decisions.
Meet with the priest and discuss his complaints.
Have the priest publically executed as a warning to all who oppose you.
Ignore the priest. He's only a minor leader.
Find your own religious leader to counter what the priest has to say.
3. The realm has been enjoying great prosperity, and there is a surplus of gold in the treasury.
Distribute the gold to the poor.
Use the funds to build roads, temples, and bridges.
Take the funds for yourself. Squander them on massive parties, countless prostitutes and expensive wine.
Give gifts to important leaders throughout the realm.
4. Your armies defeat a band of rebels, and their leaders plead for clemency.
Execute them all and impale their bodies on spikes.
Execute the leaders, but let their soldiers go free.
Pardon and release all the rebels.
Imprison the leaders and let the soldiers go free.
5. Bands of orcs are marauding the countryside.
Who cares? You hired them to terrorize the peasants.
Raise an army and destroy the scourge.
Ride out under a flag of truce and negotiate with the orc leaders.
Do nothing, knowing that one of your foes is bound to waste soldiers putting the orcs down.
6. A wealthy noble threatens to secede from the kingdom.
Arrange a peaceful split so trade will continue.
Raise an army and crush the rebellion.
Arrange to have the noble assassinated.
Ignore the noble. Stay with your concubines.
7. You have just taken power and have very few advisors.
So?
Choose leaders who are popular with the common folk as advisors.
Choose powerful nobles as advisors.
Choose leaders from diverse parts of the realm as advisors.
8. After years of war, you finally conquer the neighboring kingdom. The time has come to deal with the conquered nobles.
Execute them along with the peasants in an orgy of carnage.
Replace the leaders with nobles friendly to you.
Allow the leaders to keep their titles and use the existing bureaucracy to govern.
Visit the conquered regions in an effort to befriend the local leaders.
9. A new religion is sweeping the land and has become quite popular with the peasantry. Most nobles oppose the new religion.
Convert to the new religion.
Order the army to violently suppress the new religion.
Issue a decree proclaiming tolerance of the new religion.
Tolerate the new faith, but restrict government positions to worshippers of the state religion.
10. A good friend discovers that, previously unknown to either of you, you are not the rightful ruler of the land, and presents you with documents proving this.
Burn the documents. Execute your friend. Find the real ruler and kill him.
Hide the documents, swear your friend to secrecy, and hope nothing happens.
Publically announce the illegitamacy of your reign and step down.
Find and imprison the rightful ruler immediately.
11. There are numerously problems in your kingdom, but you only have time to deal with one thing this month.
Travel to a province ravaged by floods to care for the peasants.
Personally visit prominent nobles and secure their loyalty.
Throw a party at the palace and let someone else deal with the problems.
Send advisors to deal with troubled areas and remain at the palace.
12. Your aging mother suggests that it is time for you to marry.
Strangle your mother and dump her body in the moat. Return to your concubines.
Marry the heir to the largest land-owning noble in the realm.
Choose a bride from among the common folk.
Marry someone you love.
13. Several nobles complain that the land is too lawless, and clamour for greater order.
Execute the nobles and outlaw a random holiday.
Standardize tariffs on trade between the provinces.
Review the nobles' suggestions and approve a few of their choices.
Pass laws designed to protect the common peasant.
14. Village leaders visit the capital, complaining that they have little say in their own affairs.
Appoint an ally to represent the peasants in the capital.
Let the villagers elect a representative.
Impale the villagers on spikes and line the castle walls with their bodies.
Listen to the complaints and promise to do more to help the villagers.
15. Several key generals revolt and storm the capital. Soldiers are running through the hallways, hunting for you.
Flee, and hope to return with your soldiers.
Surrender and hope for mercy.
Fight, even though you may die.
Commit suicide, refusing to be captured.
16. Peasants are protesting and refusing to work their farms.
Meet with peasant leaders and negotiate a compromise.
Restructure other provinces to make up for the shortage of farming.
Crush the protestors and force them back to their farms.
Ignore it. They'll starve eventually.
17. Conscription is massively unpopular with the peasantry, but you know an army is necessary in the coming months.
Try to find some other way to raise troops, such as hiring mercenaries.
Give in to the wishes of the people and do not conscript their sons.
Times of war call for martial law. Order conscription, and imprison dissidents.
Kill whoever mentioned conscription. Find something else, like your concubines and mindless slaughter, to occupy your time.
18. Your time is very valuable. How do you determine who speaks to you?
Surround yourself with capable advisors.
Surround yourself with powerful advisors.
Allow anyone, commoner or nobleman, to meet with you.
Schedule meetings with village leaders to ensure they are heard.
19. A nearby kingdom has mobilized its army and is threatening to invade.
Send negotiators to halt the invasion. Mobilize the army.
Send negotiators to halt the invasion, and invade anyway.
Gather your trusted allies and leave. Let the kingdom suffer.
Pledge to defend any provice that is invaded. Send personal assurances to the lords along the border.
20. After ruling for many years, you lie dying. What is your final act?
Release some political prisoners to show your mercy.
Distribute your wealth to the peasantry.
Call the nobles and have them swear fealty to your heir.
Strangle your heir and leave the country to rot.