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Message: <blockquote data-quote="swrushing" data-source="post: 1270138" data-attributes="member: 14140">Ok, going from the perspective of how could it have gone this way...If insulting the guard is enough to get you brought in, you see the cuthbertian's as a stickler type and not that that is unwarranted, its probably a good idea to SHOW the players this. If i intend to run them afoul of a order with that combo of uptightedness and power, i will show them "as you move thru the city" scenes of the respect/fear accorded those guards and possibly give them a scene where they see someone else disrespect them and get haulked off... or at least a tale of it. In other words, before you put them and the law in confrontation, show them how the law is treated and expects to be treated. Show them this is or is not an old west "take down the sherrif if you dont like it" circumstance BEFORE you let them run afoul of the law.You ought to give them a notion of whether this is a good law enforcement town or a bad one. Otherwise, they may draw the wrong conclusions for your setting.Maybe you did that and did not mention it in your post.Second issue, while you seem to be downplaying the cuthbertian's role, make it sound like the request to come in for questioning was reasonable, the IN CHAINS part sets a different tone. "Come downtown and lets clear this up" is one thing and often something reasonable characters will go along with but "in chains" sets an entirely different tone and most will object.So, if my "innocent guy" was about to be slapped in chains for no crime, I might well assume this is a BAD lawman town as well, and might be looking for a less than cooperative answer too.I might surmise that you had one clear image of what a Cuthbertian priest was and the player might have had a different one, or none at all.</blockquote>

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