note that this intentionally separates Estates from Heirs, as that keeps the door open for ownership of an Estate to change and potentially even let someone own multiple estates (though we’ll need to button up estate creation if that happens to prevent possibly letting someone spam creation)

at some point I should read the rules after all these changes

As written, you could argue this permits someone to spam creations.

Let’s say The Old King owns The Old Castle, and nobody else owns anything else. I create the Vinyard and become its Palatine.
Then, I can check if I’m not the Palatine of any given Estate, and that’s true, I’m not the Palatine of the Old Castle. This permits me to create another estate.
Then, again, I’m not the Palatine of the Old Castle, and I make another.

  Normally I’m in favour of fixing forward, but we’d have to cfj away all the extra estates that would be created in the meantime.

Per SingularByte’s comment

Nobody’s likely to bother spamming this if they know that a “remove all but the first for each player” fix will be in the pipeline. And if they do, CfJing away the data rows will be trivial.

The “random starting stats” aesthetic is a fun space to play in but I’m starting to worry that someone getting a streak of bad throws is actually now just going to be hosed for the entire dynasty. (This isn’t targeted at this proposal specifically, which is fine and I’m leaning towards just voting for it anyway, and I do acknowledge that my own A Prince proposal suffers from the same critique.)

We should definitely switch Reinitialisation on for the rest of this dynasty.

That could even become a more repeatable action of resetting your stats to “appoint a successor”, with some limit or cost attached.

“Any given” feels clear to me, and like Kevan said we can also CFJ the bad rows anyway just as easily as we can patch the words so I’m not really concerned too much

CoV   with Kevan’s fix

I feel like there’s also a potential overloading of terms here with Estate reputation since Heirs also have a reputation. Seems like there’s a lot of different small issues here, so I’m inclined to go

CoV With the emperor’s vote I have to come off the fence.

CoV