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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Viktyr Gehrig" data-source="post: 1034504" data-attributes="member: 9249">In pretty much any standard D&D milieu, most any man that's more than a dirt farmer will have a weapon on his hip-- and as long as it stays on his hip, there's no problem; it's expected. Heavy armor-- hell, any armor-- in any lawful (as in, under the rule of law) town is going to be frowned on in public, and is not going to be common. Walking into any business in dirty heavy armor, unless it's a place that provides baths and/or laundry, is going to raise suspicions as well as lead to social disapproval-- you're acting like a freak. Drawing a weapon in town for anything other than a legally sanctioned duel is a criminal act and should be punished-- unless the party is capable of killing the whole town guard. Then, depending on the setting and the local power structure, they either take over and run the joint or the King sends in the army. I can understand a little confusion about heavy armor, but expecting to get away with drawing weapons and threatening people? I'm sorry, but your player is a dolt. I do have one character that always wears his armor in town-- he has the Endurance feat and he sleeps in it. He also wears a heavy iron mask at all times-- he only takes it off to eat or bathe, and when he bathes, he pays the bathhouse attendants to go find something else to do. This character was treated like a freak, as he should have been. Only his polite, controlled demeanor and massive Intimidate score gathered him any respect, and until he took part in saving the town from goblins, was shunned, overcharged, and whispered about. And this is exactly the sort of reaction I expected.</blockquote>

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