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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Phlebas" data-source="post: 3896999" data-attributes="member: 23810">Hmm, Barons aren't particularly high up the noble pecking order normally. though it might be different in your world. However the fact that your from the neighbouring barony and have been around for 2 years means that your group will have gained their own reputation in the area (for better / for worse). That should have coloured the NPC's reaction.... but only you / madewithletters can say wether that was a fair responseBut not all cultures....Even pre-medieval there was a massive gulf between serfs bonded to the land (who weren't that far off property) and freemen. Since freemen make up the bulk of most medieval armies (its only fantasy where scythe wielding serfs rout armoured knights) they would expect a certain amount of respect from the noble born. They also made up the professional classes (smiths / merchants etc) and have their own rights / obligations in a quasi-feudal setting. Since the standard D&D setting seems to place most PC classes in the 'professional' category I suspect that this would be more pronounced in an average fantasy world.Regardless, in the lords absence the 'captain of the guard' has authority here, regardless of wether he's of noble or common birth. The idea that if you don't have a coat of arms you need to be groveling only apples when you have some real large gulfs in class (if the queen comes to visit) or a seriously oppressed society - (which is a viable setting, but not the impression i'm getting here). My take on this is even if commoners are normally very subservient to nobles, a commoner who's working with his lords authority will not / should not be completely subservient to an outsider, though equally if the outsiders been given hospitality by his lord that cannot be withdrawn for no good reason.Now wether it was the wisest reaction is a whole other argument and one where i'd agree that the captain might have some explaining to do on his lords return....</blockquote>

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