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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brimshack" data-source="post: 3250086" data-attributes="member: 34694">One thing I think would make the question of a legal system more interesting is to bear in mind that more than one legal system could have a plausible claim on any given region. Locals and lesser nobles may well expect to see common law upheld whereas a monarch may seek to have royal decree serve as the law. If there is or has been an established church, then they may seek to have something like Papal law take precedence. The wacing and waning of different legal claims could well be more interesting than some static system of laws which all take for granted as applying to a given setting. And for lawful characters, especially, the potential drama of determining which laws they will follow ...lots of possibilities there.E.g.: A merchant accuses a 3rd son of a local landlord of theft. The local Justice of the Peace expects to determine the facts for himself and convince a judge of the facts as he sees them. If guilty, he will force the offender to pay a fine to the victim. But a representative to the new monarch is in the area, and he wishes a different judge to make the decision. If guilty, the accused will pay in service to the king. Meanwhile, the resident Cleric reminds everyone that when the church received its proper respect a zone of truth would resolve matters and the accused would have received corporal punishment if found guilty. Each is fully convinced that their own means of resolving the dispute is the proper one, and each regards the other methods as a sort of corruption. It's already a complicated enough situation to givethe players a tough call, and we haven't even factored in ulterior motives and deceipt.</blockquote>

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