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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Shaman" data-source="post: 5399800" data-attributes="member: 26473">Sorry, bill, but I have to call shenanigans there. Historically 'kings' ranged from the absolute monarchs of powerful nation-states to elected caretakers with little authority and even less power to local warlords with grand pretensions. There's no way you can reasonably claim 'historical accuracy' without qualifying it with a big bag of caveats and exceptions based on time, place, and culture.Perhaps more importantly, if we're not talking about a historical game in particular, then really what we're looking at is whether or not the king's reaction is genre-appropriate and setting-appropriate.Frex, the set-up was the king wants the adventurers to establish a dominion in his name. If the thief gets caught - and that could be a damn big 'if,' which is something only The Jester seemed consider, with everyone else assuming that the thief would be caught - then his punishment could be exile to the new land with the paladin supervising the thief's parole.The assumption that every king is unfailingly bloodthirsty and vindictive is malarkey, in my humble opinion.</blockquote>