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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fenes" data-source="post: 4142389" data-attributes="member: 604">That depends on the power level in question. Would it have severe consequences for the duke of the realm if a knight gets killed after offending him?And there's a rather large difference between bowing and scraping, and treating high level adventurers according to the power they represent.Would a noble mouth off to the archmage ruler of a free city? Would the king go to war over said noble ending up dead? Would said noble try to bully the envoy of the Barbarian hordelands? Would the king go to war over the noble ending up dead?So why would they try to treat the PC archmage, the PC party like that?Again, in a standard D&D world, high-level PCs are powers of their own. They may be brutal, and even evil, but that doesn't mean a realm goes to war over a noble that was not as smart and diplomatic as he should have been.Most of this can usually be avoided simply by having the NPCs not act like jerks. Fair? Maybe not. But it avoids a lot of trouble, and is therefore the smart course of action, both for a DM as well as for smart NPCs.</blockquote>