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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kigmatzomat" data-source="post: 1591920" data-attributes="member: 9254">Yup, that would be my game.  IMC, ~98% of the populace are good little NPC classes with Adepts and Warriors being the most common professional "adventurer" (read: "someone who's life involves  personal risk").  Characters with PC classes are the exceptional ones who have talent and an innate knack.  Other than recent changes of fortune, a player's Fighter 16 will have the same level of loot as the Fighter 16 who acts as the Duke's personal champion and stats generated in a similar fashion.  Lordy, no.  Why, my players recently released a super demon that unleashed a hundred million undead on their world.  Of course, by being high-profile they are involved in the events in a greater way than any other mook, but still the bad things happen.  On the consequences scale the party was in the Royal city when a riot broke out between religious groups.  The guard was called out and the halfling ranger follows from the rooftops.  The guard form up ranks and begin advancing slowly while the ranger goes ahead and begins firing arrows at those clerics summoning creatures willy-nilly.  When the guard's spellcasters arrive, the ranger is held along with most of the other troublemakers, imprisoned, his gear impounded, and kept in prison for ~2 days awaiting arraignment.  Once tried (a hallowed area with a zone of truth) he's fined for interfering when he knew the guard was onsite without family, personal property, or other personal interests to defend.  He's also forbidden to have weapons within the city walls for a period of 1 year.  Had he targeted anyone except those that were causing wholesale chaos it would have been much worse.  He was rather miffed ("But....I'm a hero!!!") but c'est la vie.  Follow the guard over a mile to *find* the fracas and you get in trouble.  Had he introduced himself to the guardsmen he might have been allowed to help and been regarded as a hero but instead he was a hothead.  The people who were just defending themselves/ family/ property were released and in some cases provided reparations from the collected fines.</blockquote>

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