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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Slander" data-source="post: 5045460" data-attributes="member: 1593">This is one of those instances where you've gotta decide how much and what kind of verisimilitude you want to create. IMO, a "normal" response to someone going around fully armed and armored in "civilized" places is going to be distrust, suspicion, NPCs "having an important engagement somewhere else", hassle by the local law, and the like. Doesn't matter if he's in town for a day or a year ... if a character looks like trouble, or like he's expecting trouble, it's going to elicit an appropriate response. A guy freely displaying an executioners axe would look like trouble. Characters like that could hang out in the rough parts of town w/o that kind of hassle. But then the character has to deal with everything that comes with being in the rough part of town.The question is, do you have the energy and desire to enforce this kind of reality every time? It sounds like you want to in this case. But if you didn't do it all the time, I know I'd personally feel jerked around. I'd simply be waiting for you to spring a fight where I'm not equipped.My group uses more of an anime vibe in that respect. People, PCs and NPCs alike, wander around all the time w/ weapons and it's considered normal. But the players in my group typically don't have an interest in being in one place all that long. It's simply easier to allow them to wander around as is, ask their questions, get their repairs, and move on.</blockquote>

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