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<blockquote data-quote="Rechan" data-source="post: 5151712" data-attributes="member: 54846"><p>You're a peasant in Average Fantasy World Civilization. You don't venture out of your town/city. You work hard and make very little. In this world, you know monsters exist, you know that people can vaporize you where you stand. You know that certain crazy individuals make a living giong out and poking big scary things in the nose purely to get the money these monsters hoard from eating people like you. </p><p></p><p> Then you see a group of guys armed to the teeth with shiny, dangerous looking weapons, one or more looking like every stereotype you've ever heard about "Point at you and vaporize you" guys. One of them looks like a monster itself, it's definitely Strange, and is also carrying weapons, also swaggering next to these guys. With them is some sort of wild animal. </p><p></p><p>These guys haven't started any sort of violence yet.</p><p></p><p>Are you, honestly, going to walk up and say "HAY GET THAT ANIMAL OUT OF HERE"? </p><p></p><p>No. You are going to <em>get the hell out of the way</em>. You are going to mind your own business, and likely just leave the room entirely.</p><p></p><p>Because I know if I saw a group of Hell's Angels pull up, all with holstered guns, one of which had a hyena foaming at the mouth on a chain leash, I wouldn't go for the cops, I wouldn't put up a fuss, I'd find a hole to crawl into and hope they didn't notice me.</p><p></p><p>Same with any shopkeep. If you turn these guys away, you probably would think they would obliterate you, or maybe just utterly destroy your store and take what they want. But they're being nice enough to actually <em>pay you</em>. Are YOU going to refuse to serve them cuz they are clearly very scary?</p><p></p><p>And the local podunk authority in Average Fantasy Town likely doesn't want to poke some adventurers in the nose purely because if they can have a monster next to them and it not go bezerk, hey they probably have it under control. After all, Wizards can charm monsters all the time. Best to just let them get their ale, their weapons, and get out of town without incident.</p><p></p><p>Notice how in every Western you've ever seen, any time a honest-to-god Gunslinger or Outlaw walks into a saloon, folks <em>stop drinking and watch him very carefully</em>. The Sheriff just makes a point of sitting there, his Star presented, and just Watching the Gunslinger/Outlaw to see if he'll start something. Same idea. Just replace Gunslinger with Adventurer and/or Monstrous PC Race/Ranger with Animal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rechan, post: 5151712, member: 54846"] You're a peasant in Average Fantasy World Civilization. You don't venture out of your town/city. You work hard and make very little. In this world, you know monsters exist, you know that people can vaporize you where you stand. You know that certain crazy individuals make a living giong out and poking big scary things in the nose purely to get the money these monsters hoard from eating people like you. Then you see a group of guys armed to the teeth with shiny, dangerous looking weapons, one or more looking like every stereotype you've ever heard about "Point at you and vaporize you" guys. One of them looks like a monster itself, it's definitely Strange, and is also carrying weapons, also swaggering next to these guys. With them is some sort of wild animal. These guys haven't started any sort of violence yet. Are you, honestly, going to walk up and say "HAY GET THAT ANIMAL OUT OF HERE"? No. You are going to [I]get the hell out of the way[/I]. You are going to mind your own business, and likely just leave the room entirely. Because I know if I saw a group of Hell's Angels pull up, all with holstered guns, one of which had a hyena foaming at the mouth on a chain leash, I wouldn't go for the cops, I wouldn't put up a fuss, I'd find a hole to crawl into and hope they didn't notice me. Same with any shopkeep. If you turn these guys away, you probably would think they would obliterate you, or maybe just utterly destroy your store and take what they want. But they're being nice enough to actually [I]pay you[/I]. Are YOU going to refuse to serve them cuz they are clearly very scary? And the local podunk authority in Average Fantasy Town likely doesn't want to poke some adventurers in the nose purely because if they can have a monster next to them and it not go bezerk, hey they probably have it under control. After all, Wizards can charm monsters all the time. Best to just let them get their ale, their weapons, and get out of town without incident. Notice how in every Western you've ever seen, any time a honest-to-god Gunslinger or Outlaw walks into a saloon, folks [I]stop drinking and watch him very carefully[/I]. The Sheriff just makes a point of sitting there, his Star presented, and just Watching the Gunslinger/Outlaw to see if he'll start something. Same idea. Just replace Gunslinger with Adventurer and/or Monstrous PC Race/Ranger with Animal. [/QUOTE]
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