Prestige: The Game of Terrible Compliments

The Crown has called a great feast to determine who will be appointed to rule new land on the marches.  All the best have come to seek the honor.  You, however, are the one that will win this.  This is a feast of pomp, and manners, and fine beverages... an event of great boasts... and compliments for all contenders that will with florid politeness grind them all beneath your heel...

THE GAME

All players will see that their cups are filled with a tasty beverage to enhance loquacity and perspicacity.  The host shall sit in role of The Crown, and the rest of the players as peers.

Next, players will in rounds regale the company with a boast, one each in turn, outlining each of the following in such a fashion as will bring amazement to the heart of The Crown:

- First, a claim against your most noble pedigree.  What is the single greatest fact of your most noble birth that sets you above the peasants, and apart from your less worthy peers?
- Second, the fact of your greatest virtue.  What aspect of your character shows you to be more than worthy in heart and mind from churls and villains?
- Third, a deed of great merit.  What is your single greatest accomplishment, showing you fit not only in word but in action, to hold stewardship of the cantankerous marches for The Crown?

When these meritorious boasts have been laid before The Crown, and for all to see, everyone will then take turns giving a compliment to the peer of choice, extolling the greatness of the claimed boast, for it is just, and right, and proper that the peers hold unity before The Crown for only a churl, or villain, or rabble-rousing insurrectionist would not stand firm in the unity of the state.  HOWEVER, let us not forget, that should The Crown be more impressed with your rivals than you, you will gain nothing!

Thus, you must give a compliment of splendid form, that nonetheless shows the truth of the matter such that, in the end there can be no doubt that whatever boasts your rivals claim, they are in fact weak, shabby, and silly accomplishments indeed... proving the boaster unfit to rule the marches.

After everyone has had a chance to lay a compliment, a moment to savor the fine beverage will be observed before another round is taken to address a compliment to another of your peers.  Should the company wish, as many rounds as it takes to compliment each player can be taken, but should brevity be required, two rounds is sufficient.

After the rounds have been completed, the crown will choose who is most worthy based on their accomplishments.  Glory upon their house and their name!