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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fenes" data-source="post: 3896852" data-attributes="member: 604">I took a page for that from "The War God's Own" and "Oath of Swords". Paladins are agents of a God, personally chosen by the God/Godess they serve. That means the church of said God/Goddess stands behind them, backing them with power and authority - which translates into quite a lot of influence depending on the chruch in question, and the people adressed. Most if not all would also be members of a knightly order, and therefore nobility. Not that there are that many paladins.Basically, a paladin's status is directly granted by a god - one of the highest authorities in the world there. So, there are not many characters not of the higher nobility and/or clergy that would consider themselves above a paladin, and even most powerful nobles will give them a lot of respect and deference for this - not to mention the respect due to a knight.Same goes, although to a lesser grade, for clerics (there are much more of them, they are not that special, and lack the knighthood implied in most paladin orders). The more powerful a cleric is, and the higher his/her standing in the chruch, and the higher the church's power is, the more respect the cleric gets. It's a sort of second noble class that way. Lesser clerics would be more or less equal to poor knights in standing, cardinals and high priests would be treated like dukes and such.I have to add too that fame and fortune and the reputation of heroic deeds plays an important role in my campaign - the more a characer has done, the more he/she is generally known. So, a militia member facing a level 10 character would not be trying to tell some vagrant with fancy airs off, he'd be trying to order Sir Galear, Hero of the Battle of King's Mountain, Defender of Riveroaks, the man who commanded the Iron Duke's vanguard during the crusade against the orc horde, around. Most commoners - and some PCs - in my campaign flock to those characters for help, tales, and support, they don't try to push them around. Even nobles can gain standing by associating with well-known heroes.That is, of course, not limited to PCs. NPC heroes/nobles are in the same category. (I can't help thank that some answers would be different if instead of an NPC disobeying a PC it had been a PC of not big standing or experience trying to order a hero NPC around.)</blockquote>

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