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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5017377" data-attributes="member: 4937">This happens?  Regularly enough to be an example?  And outside of comics like KotDT?  I mean, I assume it happens somewhere, but does it happen to everyone and I'm just missing out?Yes, it is.  Depending on the relative rank of the parties, the PC's could be hung for this.  At the very least, you'd risk a flogging unless you severely outranked the drunk and could use the 'insulted by a churl' defence.It would horrify me, mostly because the PC's turning criminal would probably lead to a very short campaign unless the PC's were really high level and could survive what a nation could throw at them (including rival mercenaries).Heh.  I like to start my campaigns with someone or something beating the tar out of the PC's just to remind them to stay on their toes and not get too cocky.  In one campaign, they tangled with a gang of overseers from a local plantation, and the overseers beat the crap out of them then whipped their hides bloody with bullwhips and left them in the dirt as an object lesson to anyone who might forget who was in charge.  In another, the PC's tangled with what they thought was a bandit, but which proved to be a werewolf that knocked them all unconscious and stole what he could carry away.I find it a very useful story trope.  The hero almost always loses at first, then there is a middle period where they train and become seriously dangerous, then they go back and reclaim their honor by beating up whoever disgraced them in chapter one.</blockquote>

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