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<blockquote data-quote="covaithe" data-source="post: 5093086" data-attributes="member: 46559"><p>Do the Lords have actual power? I didn't know that. In Love Bites, I'd assumed that Brunt is the nominal head of government, who has to maintain the approval of the Politica as a sort of parliamentary body. Brunt has a fairly free hand in most of the day-to-day stuff, but if he pisses off the Politica too much, they can toss him out and put up another mayor in his place, sort of thing. The nobility don't have much direct, official power as individuals; they have to work in concert to really accomplish anything governmentally. Which they almost never do; too much squabbling and infighting. On the other hand, the nobility have the power and influence (and money) to go outside the law when they feel like it: private armies, bounties on people they don't like, etc. It's that last bit that had Brunt all stressed in Love Bites. </p><p></p><p>As for justice, it's on record that Brunt thinks adventurers are a necessary evil, that without them and their unruly ways the city would quickly be overrun by horrors. So he's prepared to bend the rules for them and look the other way if a few dead criminals turn up from time to time. It's when the PCs start killing nobility or roughing up ordinary citizens that things get a little heated.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="covaithe, post: 5093086, member: 46559"] Do the Lords have actual power? I didn't know that. In Love Bites, I'd assumed that Brunt is the nominal head of government, who has to maintain the approval of the Politica as a sort of parliamentary body. Brunt has a fairly free hand in most of the day-to-day stuff, but if he pisses off the Politica too much, they can toss him out and put up another mayor in his place, sort of thing. The nobility don't have much direct, official power as individuals; they have to work in concert to really accomplish anything governmentally. Which they almost never do; too much squabbling and infighting. On the other hand, the nobility have the power and influence (and money) to go outside the law when they feel like it: private armies, bounties on people they don't like, etc. It's that last bit that had Brunt all stressed in Love Bites. As for justice, it's on record that Brunt thinks adventurers are a necessary evil, that without them and their unruly ways the city would quickly be overrun by horrors. So he's prepared to bend the rules for them and look the other way if a few dead criminals turn up from time to time. It's when the PCs start killing nobility or roughing up ordinary citizens that things get a little heated. [/QUOTE]
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