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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tsyr" data-source="post: 73225" data-attributes="member: 354">While I agree with the concept -that there should be a class structure in place, and that the pcs should know of it, and at times  follow it...I've always held the opinion that as a general rule (Paladins and most clerics probably accepting) PCs are sort of... outsiders, if you will, in daily life. Adventurers in my world tend to be very much the black sheep of a society... people who never grew the common sense to sit down and stay put and farm corn 'til they die. While they exist in, and to some extend contribute to society, I've always played it so that they are sort of like a... an undesireable aspect of it. A sometimes loved undesireable, as strange as that is as a concept. People far and wide might sing balads of Ragnagar The Mighty and Telian The Wise, but in their home towns people whisper things like "Oh yeah... I grew up with that guy... always a bit wrong in the head he was. Never rightly saw that we hads us a good life here on these farms...". As such, in terms of dealing with nobility, it would be... tense, probably. I mean, you are talking about (as I see it) people who exist almost outside of the society they rule anyways, and add to it the fact that they probably hold the power to hack their way out of the castle after having killed the king if they chose to (In my world, nobels very rarely are retired adventurers with tons of levels backing them up)... and, well, formality is just that... formality. It might be obeyed, but there is no spirit behind it. But it isn't even always obeyed. If the nobel wants to hire adventurers, he will just have to deal with it.</blockquote>

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