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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 9331808" data-attributes="member: 6915329">Actually, it doesn't say that at all.It says that you can find a place to hide and rest among the commoners as long as you haven't shown yourself to be a danger (which, let's face it, will automatically disqualify at least half of adventurers right off the bat, since even carrying a weapon can easily make you seem too dangerous for many). the commoner will shield you from people who are looking for you but won't risk themselves in doing it. It also--and I've only said this a hundred times--says absolutely nothing about them recognizing you as a folk hero. What they recognize is that you're not a highfalutin noble or snooty merchant or untrustworthy crook--they recognize you as one of them, a real salt of the earth type whom they can judge by the strength of your handshake. Stuff like that.Anyway, to get this feature to work for you:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">You have to look and act like a fairly non-dangerous person[1]. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">You have to be running from someone (which automatically makes you seem potentially more dangerous). </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">You have to then want to go hide in a commoner's house instead of any of a thousand other potential hiding places. </li> </ol>Then the commoner will tell you to go hide in the storm cellar.But if the person who is chasing you actually tracks you to the commoner's house and then waves a sword in the commoner's face, threatens to arrest them, or stands in the streets and says that they're going to kill a random civilian every ten minutes until you come out, then the commoner is almost certainly going to try to save themselves by ratting you out.-----[1] Probably one of the few times to ignore that clause is if you're in a place where everyone hates the people who are chasing you to the point it doesn't matter how scary you look. Like, if the guards of the Evil Tyrant Usurper are chasing you, then probably the enemy of my enemy, right?-----People keep treating this background like its godmode or something, and it's really not.Which is why the background doesn't say that people recognize you as a folk hero. It says, quite clearly, that they recognize you as a commoner. You did something heroic in your home village (thus making you a folk hero). That's why you decided to go off and adventure now.</blockquote>

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