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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ambrus" data-source="post: 1919670" data-attributes="member: 17691">Well, it's a little tricky if you don't want to use *any* real world ranks since you'll just end up with verbal gibberish, which isn't neccessarily a bad thing. For instance I once played a dwarf who was part of his race's military force, akin to a sargent, but whose official rank was "Dar". Everyone, even the other PCs, reffered to me as "the Dar". Even gibberish can sound good if repeated often enough in a serious tone of voice. If that what you like, just make up whatever sounds good.If you want to consider some real ranks and titles as alternatives though heres a quick ranking system I just made up (starting from lowest to highest):Armsmen (perhaps a civilian militia man)Watchman (a professional enlisted guard)Constable (the lead of a guard squad)Deputy-Constable (in charge of the constables of a city's single ward or district)Watch-Detective (investigators of serious crimes such as homicide and arson)Watch-Captain (in charge of all the city's guards)If you want to give distinctive titles to members of particular squads (such as archers and wizards) then I'd suggest that only the bottom most ranks have such distinctions since once you reach the higher ranks, only your authority matters (such as generals and captains) not where you started your career. People in authority aren't usually expected to fight themselves afterall.Members of each division could be named seperately though I'd suggest keeping it sounding consistent. Sword-wielders could be called "swordsman", "bladesman" or simply "armsman". Archers could be called "archman", "bowman" or "linesman". I'd call watch-wizards "artsman" and watch-clerics "godsman". Other titles you might want to consider would be beagle, bachelor, bailiff, marshall, reave, patrolman, lawman, man-at-arms, sheriff or crown-agent.In my campaign, the lowest members of the guard are known as Armsman and Artsman (depending on whether they fight with weapons or magic). The next highest rank is simply "Deputy-armsman" or "deputy-artsman".Be careful about raising their rank too high however because it realistically leads to unpleasant campaign situations such as added responsibility, paperwork and overseeing subordinates not to mention the political games played by the higher ranked members of any organisation. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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