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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bleoberis De Ganis" data-source="post: 4728014" data-attributes="member: 77687">When you have a situation where there is a chance of success or failure and there are no mechanics at all it has as much point to it as a Teddy Bear Tea Party with your annoying little sister.  You and your sister are just sitting there going 'Blah, blah, blah, yes you can have a cup of tea Mr Buttons.' So yes, roleplaying does, sometimes, need mechanics or else it is just blah, blah. Heraldry only seems to be related to the History skill and not Etiquette to us now days because we don't use it now and it is a part of our history. In the days it was used it wasn't, except in the case of Heralds producing Patent of Arms to prove lineages and rights to use arms. Usually when contested in court, such as when 2 people have the same coat of arms and they have to decide who had it first and which one must change them, or whether or not they are legally permitted to have them at all. In those days it was an important part of the upper classes, and later the middle classes. A person's coat of arms was directly linked with their fame and honour. An upper class person was a product, a brand, a business.  Heraldry is still around today. If I started producing a cola product now and put Coke or Pepsi all over it you would see how relevant it is today when I end up in court. Brands live and die by their fame and their percieved business practice. Tournaments (and hanging their arms outside the inn they were staying at), building churches and donating to the poor were the advertising medium of the age. Newspapers, television, hoardings (arms on the tavern) and charity works are the medium of the modern age. You wouldn't use the History skill for modern advertising and business.</blockquote>

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