02-18-2018, 04:12 PM | #21 |
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Re: [Basic] Disadvantage of the Week: Code of Honor
But her code isn’t going to get her killed the way that a Gentleman’s Code quite easily can. That’s easily enough to distinguish between a 5 and a 10 point CoH.
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02-18-2018, 04:25 PM | #22 |
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Re: [Basic] Disadvantage of the Week: Code of Honor
Incidentally, there’s a minor contradiction in the Basic Set discussion of the disadvantage. The preliminary note says that a Code of Honor must require “dangerous — if not reckless — behaviour” — but the examples include a Professional code such as the Hippicratic Oath, which isn’t generally dangerous to obey.
Frankly, I think that the prefatory note needs a rewrite; it’s quite hard to relate it to many of the Codes that have been published, or their values.
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I'd say that the much more limited scope of action which would be permissable under the Gentlewoman's Code is easily enough to justify the same price as the more dangerous, but also more permissive of proactive action, Gentleman's Code.
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02-18-2018, 10:01 PM | #24 | |
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02-19-2018, 03:34 AM | #25 | |
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"You may not legally own property" is part of the Social Stigma. "If you are insulted, a male relative must act for you" is part of the Code of Honor. She can pick up a pistol and fight a duel; it would just be social suicide to do so.
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02-19-2018, 04:08 AM | #26 | |
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Yep. Lizzie is severely practically disadvantaged, but pretty much all of it comes under Social Stigma (Second-Class Citizen). The honor code which she obeys (partly because she'd suffer a massive negative Reputation if she didn't at least pay it lip service) imposes behavioural constraints on her ("pay your debts, keep your word, bring major issues of honour to the attention of male relatives"), but at the -5 point CoH level, not the duels-and-fair-fighting level associated with a -10 point CoH.
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02-19-2018, 06:00 AM | #27 |
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Re: [Basic] Disadvantage of the Week: Code of Honor
The social obligation to have children is much more dangerous for a woman than dueling is for a man. I think that maternal mortality was 25:1000 before the modern era, which meant that the average woman had a 12% to 22% chance of dying (assuming 5-10 pregnancies that made it to term).
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02-19-2018, 06:56 AM | #30 | |
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I think Codes of Honour ought to be priced by how much they constrain a PC's freedom of action. Whether or not they require dangerous behaviour is really a secondary issue, despite the wording in the Basic Set.
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