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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CruelSummerLord" data-source="post: 3700260" data-attributes="member: 48692">It is not Chaotic Stupid in this case-my version of Greyhawk is not a nice place, and such an activity wouldn't be seen as out of the ordinary-when you can legitimately challenge someone to a sword fight, or physically beat an apology out of them, for insulting you.  In one respect, the nobles and/or thugs would be lucky that all the PCs did was humiliate them; other adventurers would have slain them on the spot for their affrontery.When dwarves routinely kill humanoid noncombatants without mercy, paladins are allowed to use drug-tipped arrows and sleep spells when taking prisoners for questioning, and nobles have no qualims about beheading adventurers who fail in sensitive missions, the nobles or thugs in question would be lucky to only suffer physical humiliation.  Besides, the nobles aren't the only ones with leverage: the PCs could just as easily have powerful friends of their own...friends who could make the nobles' lives a living hell.  Call in a favor from the Duke whose daughter they rescued from those trolls...ask the wizard they saved from disgrace to keep a certain alehouse under his protection...request that the merchant whose goods they retrieved from bandits, saving him from ruin, to "divert" some of his trade in the wrong direction, letting it be known that the nobles in question were the ones who upset him, making some very powerful people very angry at those nobles...Hey, if those nobles want a war, they've got one.</blockquote>

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