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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 9089260" data-attributes="member: 6801845">In my campaign it would be a noble trying to get an audience in Jotunheim, land of the giants.  Most giants don't know diddly about Midgard (prime material) unless they're planning an invasion.  There is no way a noble from Midgard would be recognized as anything special, certainly not one of the slave races.  This is not a hypothetical to me, my current campaign had the PCs trapped there for a while to help stop an invasion.  Nobody asked for an audience because it would have made no sense.But I can think of a dozen other scenarios.  A doppelganger has been running around impersonating nobility and then assassinating whoever gives them audience.  You're on a different plane of existence, a different timeline, an alternate universe.  Even if your world has divinely chosen nobles, does that apply to every noble?  Including the example of successful businessman given a title?  What if that title is granted halfway around the world in a region the locals have never hear of?  These are all things that could happen in my campaign.Funny.  People talk about how in narrative games the declared action has to make sense in the fiction.  But if anyone states that in D&D the declaration has to make sense in the fiction, the pitchforks and torches come out.I think the background features are poorly written even if they would work the vast majority of times.  But I'm always going to put the fiction of the world ahead of a background feature.   <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷‍♂️" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937-2642.png" title="Man shrugging    :man_shrugging:" data-shortname=":man_shrugging:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /></blockquote>

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