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Originally Posted by Polkageist
Duty is more of a one way street(ish), I'm not sure that it necessarily implies that you're also given the resources to carry out your duty.
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I don't mean that. If you're a medieval landowner with a Duty to fight for your king, you have to provide your own weapons and armor. But if you're a Solar Patrolman with a Duty to the Patrol, you don't have to provide your own atomic gun and spaceship: the Patrol assigns them to you, and you have a right to use them for Patrol work. Whether you get anything, and exactly what you get if you get something, depends on the Duty.
So if DemiBenson's player's character is called upon to, say, settle a feud between two nobles, she might accomplish this by paying off one or both of them out of the family's treasury, with the family's agreement. Or she might host negotiations on the family property as neutral ground under circumstances she can control. She wouldn't have access to these things if she weren't acting under her Duty. And if she can't use the treasury or the property for her own goals, Patron doesn't apply.