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Irish Wolf · 07-12-2019, 10:59 AM

The question of sumptuary laws can be applied on other settings as well, for what might feel like a jarring (yet logical) result.

A postapocalyptic setting, for instance, in which a local warlord has decreed that anyone carrying a firearm above a given caliber or capable of full-auto fire must pay a tax of (fairly large amount of local currency) or face arrest by his extremely well-armed constabulary. (They might even have been provisioned from folks who tried to fight back when the tax was demanded!) There's a lesser tax for carrying semi-auto, or swords/axes above a certain size. The custom may have originated as a matter of sheer practicality, as the warlord sought to disarm any possible opposition to his/her reign, but become (as it did in the real world) a status symbol - "I'm so rich, I can afford to carry around this hundred-year-old M-4!"

07-12-2019, 10:59 AM	#12
Irish Wolf Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Earth, mostly	Re: The rights and consequences to bear arms in RPGs The question of sumptuary laws can be applied on other settings as well, for what might feel like a jarring (yet logical) result. A postapocalyptic setting, for instance, in which a local warlord has decreed that anyone carrying a firearm above a given caliber or capable of full-auto fire must pay a tax of (fairly large amount of local currency) or face arrest by his extremely well-armed constabulary. (They might even have been provisioned from folks who tried to fight back when the tax was demanded!) There's a lesser tax for carrying semi-auto, or swords/axes above a certain size. The custom may have originated as a matter of sheer practicality, as the warlord sought to disarm any possible opposition to his/her reign, but become (as it did in the real world) a status symbol - "I'm so rich, I can afford to carry around this hundred-year-old M-4!" __________________ If you break the laws of Man, you go to prison. If you break the laws of God, you go to Hell. If you break the laws of Physics, you go to Sweden and receive a Nobel Prize.