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<blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 7993542" data-attributes="member: 14159"><p>When could that kind of knowledge be useful in a game?</p><p></p><p>Let's say Bob the Fighter is undercover in the evil Imperial Army, trying to get to their headquarters to steal important plans. He's wearing the armor and tabard of an Imperial Soldier, he's passing himself off as a troop because they looted some gear from fallen soldiers a while back. . .but does he know what rank he's pretending to be? Does he know how to properly address different soldiers or recognize who he may need to salute? </p><p></p><p>Or, the usually good Royal Army has set up a roadblock at the edge of the village at the bridge into town. They aren't letting anyone through, and that's keeping local craftsmen and farmers from taking their wares to market the next town over, and keeping travelling merchants away. It's hurting the town. . .but the soldiers have their orders. As it's not a tyrannical kingdom and the troops are generally LN or LG and doing as they're told, it wouldn't be a very Good-aligned choice to deal with the roadblock by force. . .so maybe knowing military bureaucracy and hierarchy enough to know who to go to in their military heirarchy to talk to about lifting the roadblock could be helpful. . .and maybe they're doing it for some reason the PC's could be helpful with (like doing it to be prepared for some dangerous monster they're afraid might try to storm into town soon, but the PC's could go fend it off and with proof of it being killed, the roadblock is lifted)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wingsandsword, post: 7993542, member: 14159"] When could that kind of knowledge be useful in a game? Let's say Bob the Fighter is undercover in the evil Imperial Army, trying to get to their headquarters to steal important plans. He's wearing the armor and tabard of an Imperial Soldier, he's passing himself off as a troop because they looted some gear from fallen soldiers a while back. . .but does he know what rank he's pretending to be? Does he know how to properly address different soldiers or recognize who he may need to salute? Or, the usually good Royal Army has set up a roadblock at the edge of the village at the bridge into town. They aren't letting anyone through, and that's keeping local craftsmen and farmers from taking their wares to market the next town over, and keeping travelling merchants away. It's hurting the town. . .but the soldiers have their orders. As it's not a tyrannical kingdom and the troops are generally LN or LG and doing as they're told, it wouldn't be a very Good-aligned choice to deal with the roadblock by force. . .so maybe knowing military bureaucracy and hierarchy enough to know who to go to in their military heirarchy to talk to about lifting the roadblock could be helpful. . .and maybe they're doing it for some reason the PC's could be helpful with (like doing it to be prepared for some dangerous monster they're afraid might try to storm into town soon, but the PC's could go fend it off and with proof of it being killed, the roadblock is lifted) [/QUOTE]
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