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<blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 5523869" data-attributes="member: 8835"><p>I'm curious, what anybody has assembled for a set of Fantasy Laws, or papers or permits that PCs might have to carry.</p><p></p><p>Travel papers, adventuring company permits, etc. Perhaps as props given to the players.</p><p></p><p>Related to that, is any set of laws created for a fantasy government (hence requiring papers or permits).</p><p></p><p>For one campaign (a military themed naval campaign), I took the US's Uniform Code of Military Justice, chopped out the very obvious modern chunks, replaced all terms for government, president, congress, etc with my kingdom had. The result was a pretty big legal document that defined a justice system.</p><p></p><p>Has anybody done anything similar, perhaps adapting Hammurabi's Law Code? </p><p></p><p>What I got out of my effort, was the ability to tell my players, if somebody steps out of line, they can be tried. And here's the process for it, and the laws that could be applied to them. It never came up, but was a pretty hefty piece of game fluff that nobody read, but could feel the verisimilitude oozing out of the fact that it existed. Note, I only spent an hour or two working on an electronic copy to skim it, chop it, and search and replace in it. Then it was posted as part of the campaign web-site.</p><p></p><p>For a military society, the UCMJ was a perfect source to hijack.</p><p></p><p>What have other folks done?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Janx, post: 5523869, member: 8835"] I'm curious, what anybody has assembled for a set of Fantasy Laws, or papers or permits that PCs might have to carry. Travel papers, adventuring company permits, etc. Perhaps as props given to the players. Related to that, is any set of laws created for a fantasy government (hence requiring papers or permits). For one campaign (a military themed naval campaign), I took the US's Uniform Code of Military Justice, chopped out the very obvious modern chunks, replaced all terms for government, president, congress, etc with my kingdom had. The result was a pretty big legal document that defined a justice system. Has anybody done anything similar, perhaps adapting Hammurabi's Law Code? What I got out of my effort, was the ability to tell my players, if somebody steps out of line, they can be tried. And here's the process for it, and the laws that could be applied to them. It never came up, but was a pretty hefty piece of game fluff that nobody read, but could feel the verisimilitude oozing out of the fact that it existed. Note, I only spent an hour or two working on an electronic copy to skim it, chop it, and search and replace in it. Then it was posted as part of the campaign web-site. For a military society, the UCMJ was a perfect source to hijack. What have other folks done? [/QUOTE]
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