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<blockquote data-quote="Dogbrain" data-source="post: 1547891" data-attributes="member: 14980">Actually using non-modern cultural norms is a great way to mess player heads--but warn the players beforehand.An honor-based culture can beget a really nasty, awful sort of society, wherein reputation means everything and substance is only necessary to the point wherein it maintains reputation.&nbsp; As I tell people from time to time, if you want to get an idea of how that whole &quot;honor&quot; thing duels were fought over actually worked, look at modern street gangs.&nbsp; In my reading, I have only come across three duels actually fought over the &quot;honor of a lady&quot;, and one of those duels was a rematch over the same lady.Now, Julie de Maupin fought many a duel over &quot;honor&quot;, but hardly what one would call the &quot;honor of a lady&quot;, given her general proclivities (she seduced a nun, worked as a professional duelist/hit-woman, bedded a Duc when she was sixteen, bedded an Elector of the Holy Roman Empire some time later, etc.--but at least she also managed to maintain a career as the Prima Donna of the Paris Opera--as a contralto!)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dogbrain, post: 1547891, member: 14980"] Actually using non-modern cultural norms is a great way to mess player heads--but warn the players beforehand. An honor-based culture can beget a really nasty, awful sort of society, wherein reputation means everything and substance is only necessary to the point wherein it maintains reputation. As I tell people from time to time, if you want to get an idea of how that whole "honor" thing duels were fought over actually worked, look at modern street gangs. In my reading, I have only come across three duels actually fought over the "honor of a lady", and one of those duels was a rematch over the same lady. Now, Julie de Maupin fought many a duel over "honor", but hardly what one would call the "honor of a lady", given her general proclivities (she seduced a nun, worked as a professional duelist/hit-woman, bedded a Duc when she was sixteen, bedded an Elector of the Holy Roman Empire some time later, etc.--but at least she also managed to maintain a career as the [I]Prima Donna[/I] of the Paris Opera--as a contralto!) [/QUOTE]

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