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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 9287629" data-attributes="member: 6915329">Consider the following:D&D generally doesn't make that much of an effort to make people act differently in their different settings, because that's a level of worldbuilding that they tend to not go into very deeply. At least when the cultures are the standard pseudo-European in nature. Mostly that's  up to the DM. And good, courtly manners are good, courtly manners--and noble PCs should have been raised to know how to use good, courtly manners, simply by dint of being raised a noble. Whether the player chooses to use them is a different story.The Haunted One from CoS/VRGR background basically says that people can just tell you've been through trauma and commoners will help you out of courtesy. Unrealistic, probably, since superstitious Barovian commoners would probably shun someone like this, lest the horrors follow them. But what it means is that there is a precedent for NPCs just being able to "tell" that a particular character is a sage or folk hero.Apparently, everyone in Barovia speaks Common, since they don't do domain languages anymore (unless they do and I've forgotten it). Assuming that the criminal is also a rogue, or the DM lets a non-rogue criminal take Thieves' Cant as one of their languages (I'd allow it, if the the player's background warranted it), then that should also be a universal language--which means that a potential criminal contact (even if not part of an actual thieves' guild) would recognize the PC as One Of Them. And finally, well, it's part of the character. As long as player made at least some RP effort to make a connection--no rolls needed, just roleplay--then I, personally, would have no problem using their background features.</blockquote>

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