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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8508102" data-attributes="member: 82106">Meh, I expect a lot of this kind of thing is cultural though. I mean, if you go to Nairobi and visit the market NOTHING has a fixed price, I guarantee you (and the price they ask from you, Mr Ghost, is about 400% of what they would charge a local). So, yes, in 21st Century America people don't haggle. Its quite possible there's plenty of routine haggling in some fantasy setting, its up to the participants in the game to decide, assuming this is even an interesting question...Likewise the debate between [USER=84112]@HammerMan[/USER] and [USER=23751]@Maxperson[/USER] about cops. Police forces didn't even exist, in ANY FORM until the late 1800's and are largely a 20th and 21st Century phenomenon. In other cultures in other times and places the meaning of 'law' and the means and modes of upholding it were COMPLETELY different. Now, as long as the style of play is "present day society with funny hats", which probably covers about 99% of D&D, perhaps the debate is somewhat relevant, but if the question is intended to reflect some conception of an LEO as a universal, its utter hogwash.I mean, there are some fairly basic aspects of human nature that govern most people, but how they play out in any specific culture, time, and place, is hugely variable!</blockquote>