From: Joerg Baumgartner (joe@sartar.toppoint.de)
Date: Fri 22 Apr 1994 - 15:11:47 EEST
David Dunham on Outlaw Tricksters in X-RQ-ID: 3737
> Jonas said
>> The bit about their outlaw >> status often seems to be a mere formality (if actions against you can't be >> punished, this makes your own 'immunity' pretty pointless).
> I think the important thing about Tricksters being outlaws is not so much
> the Trickster but his clan being protected/prevented. Normally, if I kill
> someone, my whole clan is subject to blood vengeance (at least in Iceland
> this often happened -- after all, I'm a killer, so you probably don't want
> to mess with me, you'll kill my brother to get vengeance for your brother).
> On the other hand, if you do kill me, my clan can take vengeance against
> you.
At least it takes the legal pretense from such a murder, and akes the perpretator an outlaw himself.
> Since a Trickster is an outlaw, he can do anything he wants without getting
> his clan involved. On the other hand, when he gets into trouble, they have
> no legal right to bail him out or take vengeance.
Which hasn't hindered any to do so if they thought worth it, for whatever reason.
Loren J. Miller in X-RQ-ID: 3744
> Martin Crim writes:
>> Seriously, though, having the fuzz arrive is an anachronism,
>> and anachronisms really irk me in RPGs and fantasy fiction.
> I agree. The only worse anachronism I've seen in RQ games is the
> war-on-some-drugs. I always felt that the "cops and jails and fair
> trials oh my" model of legal systems was WRONG for most fantasy
> campaigns, but at the same time had trouble coming up with an
> alternate legal system that would be effective in maintaining some
> modicum of order in the face of player character rough-housing.
Since 1611, Pavis is under martial law. Any troublemaking would result in both sides' punishment, evidence only influencing the amount of punishment. (The victim would have to pay a fee, call it patrol involvement tax if you want.)
Cities are the only places where any legal system would need to be worked out, most other societies would have either a version of feudal jurisdiction (including the Praxian tribes), or some version of folkmoot or thing where selected people not directly involved decide on the case.
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-- Joerg Baumgartner joe@sartar.toppoint.de
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