Let's talk about Lacrymas' homebrew fantasy setting where paladins are eunuchs

[Lacrymas]

Exactly. If you kill your victim nobody will find out. You are still adventurer. Travelers keep disappearing. Must be wild dogs.
So you can kill, rape and pillage AND have perfect alibi.

Why wouldn't an official investigation start if travelers keep disappearing?

 

[Reinhardt]

Exactly. If you kill your victim nobody will find out. You are still adventurer. Travelers keep disappearing. Must be wild dogs.
So you can kill, rape and pillage AND have perfect alibi.

Why wouldn't an official investigation start if travelers keep disappearing?

If they don't catch you red handed in the process of murdering someone you are still adventurer. You don't even need to live in some shitty camp, you can freely spend your money in nearest town. YOU ARE ADVENTURER, NOT BANDIT!

 

[Lacrymas]

That can be said about real life, though? There's obviously evidence.

 

[Reinhardt]

That can be said about real life, though? There's obviously evidence.

In real life there is no adventurersparamilitary hordes of angry wommynz crawling the forests with loicense to kill at will.

 

[Lacrymas]

....nobody has permission to kill indiscriminately.

 

[Reinhardt]

....nobody has permission to kill indiscriminately.

So what? It's like kwa elections - "no one has permission to vote if you are not citizen, but if you really wanna - go vote" Asking again - your setting is based on California?

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Gave me more of a London vibe tbqh.

 

[Reinhardt]

You say women are requred to be incubators except when they don't want tocan just go and become adventurers. What prevents her from just saying "i'm adventurer" and then just whoring herself on local tiktok?
And i bet lots of your angry women barbarians are just fucking with your chaste paladins for money in nearest forest.

 

[Gangrelrumbler]

You could ask the same thing about other tabletop settings.

You really can't. Most other RPG settings don't feature such extensive forms of population control so the explanation is always "nobody cares". Why would anyone in Forgotten Realms go bother regulating adventurers? Most people there enjoy great degree of personal freedom if they don't live in locations ruled by evil-aligned characters. Why would anyone on the Sword Coast be bothered with young people going into the wild and slaying aggressive fauna and evil humanoids?

 

[Reinhardt]

Btw sex should be forbidden for women barbarians too. For simple reason - regular sex can sort of repair their anger issues thus rendering them unable to rage at will.

 

[Lacrymas]

You really can't. Most other RPG settings don't feature such extensive forms of population control so the explanation is always "nobody cares". Why would anyone in Forgotten Realms go bother regulating adventurers? Most people there enjoy great degree of personal freedom if they don't live in locations ruled by evil-aligned characters. Why would anyone on the Sword Coast be bothered with young people going into the wild and slaying aggressive fauna and evil humanoids?

How is the population control extensive? It literally only requires a woman to ask for permission to have a baby. And like I said, it's granted most of the time, it's only not granted in extreme circumstances (lost land, too many children, not enough druids for one reason or another). Second of all, they still value personal freedom. Nobody is going to forcefully keep you alive if you decide to be an adventurer of your own free will. Adventuring and being in the military is not an occupation just anyone would be willing to do or would have the personal resources/opportunity needed to do. Acquiring a character class is still a big deal like in all D&D settings. People without character classes would instinctively know they don't have the training needed for adventuring. If nothing official is stopping them, civilians irl can technically go to a warzone/battlefield, but they don't because they neither have the training, nor the equipment, nor the desire to die.

 

[Reinhardt]

It literally only requires a woman to ask for permission to have a baby.

Incubators...

 

[Lacrymas]

Oh, pardon my terminology. I meant organic incubators.

 

[Reinhardt]

Organic incubators who could leave at any moment and even if decided to stay could just not ask for having babies. Being womyn is suffering.

 

[Gangrelrumbler]

You really can't. Most other RPG settings don't feature such extensive forms of population control so the explanation is always "nobody cares". Why would anyone in Forgotten Realms go bother regulating adventurers? Most people there enjoy great degree of personal freedom if they don't live in locations ruled by evil-aligned characters. Why would anyone on the Sword Coast be bothered with young people going into the wild and slaying aggressive fauna and evil humanoids?

How is the population control extensive? It literally only requires a woman to ask for permission to have a baby. And like I said, it's granted most of the time, it's only not granted in extreme circumstances (lost land, too many children, not enough druids for one reason or another). Second of all, they still value personal freedom. Nobody is going to forcefully keep you alive if you decide to be an adventurer of your own free will. Adventuring and being in the military is not an occupation just anyone would be willing to do or would have the personal resources needed to do. Acquiring a character class is still a big deal like in all D&D settings.

They're running a medieval-level society and they need to be aware at all times whenever anyone living in a city is pregnant and what their children are doing or else the entire system simply falls apart, by people not reporting when they're pregnant or how many children they have. A woman comes to the church and tells them that she was pregnant last year but lost her child and now wants to get pregnant again. How do they know if she's telling the truth if they don't have detailed information regarding the population?
With that level of control it's easy to just ban adventurers by ensuring that everyone is accounted for and only people who do their business outside of city are either members of church or the army. Meanwhile in your typical fantasy setting the local government (lords, wizards, clerics) have only vague idea of how many people are in the area and they sure aren't notified about every pregnancy. They would actually need to spend additional resources on stopping adventurers from going about their business.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

even if decided to stay could just not ask for having babies.

The informants in the villages would oust them to the Gestapo Stasi clerical authorities though.

 

[Lacrymas]

Organic incubators who could leave at any moment and even if decided to stay could just not ask for having babies. Being womyn is suffering.

They are still culturally expected to have children, regardless of whether it requires permission or not. If they don't, they get designated as old maids, undesirable by men, failures, whatever happens or has happened irl, etc.

 

[Reinhardt]

Btw how not-adventurous childless women are punished in your setting? She's completely useless after all and just wasting precious scarce healing potions. Stoned to death? Oh, wait, it's taboo.

If they don't, they get designated as old maids, undesirable by men, failures, whatever happens or has happened irl, etc.

And men are castrated for having sex. OPRESHUN! PATRIARCHY!

 

[Lacrymas]

They're running a medieval-level society and they need to be aware at all times whenever anyone living in a city is pregnant and what their children are doing or else the entire system simply falls apart, by people not reporting when they're pregnant or how many children they have. A woman comes to the church and tells them that she was pregnant last year but lost her child and now wants to get pregnant again. How do they know if she's telling the truth if they don't have detailed information regarding the population?

Good luck hiding the fact you are pregnant or have a baby in a setting where multiple not-related adults live in the same house and there are local festivals/rituals you attend. Yes, there are informants.

 

[Reinhardt]

Yes, there are informants.

Ok, how woman is punished for having unplanned baby then? Killing is taboo, so i guess abortion too.

 

[Gangrelrumbler]

They're running a medieval-level society and they need to be aware at all times whenever anyone living in a city is pregnant and what their children are doing or else the entire system simply falls apart, by people not reporting when they're pregnant or how many children they have. A woman comes to the church and tells them that she was pregnant last year but lost her child and now wants to get pregnant again. How do they know if she's telling the truth if they don't have detailed information regarding the population?

Good luck hiding the fact you are pregnant or have a baby in a setting where multiple not-related adults live in the same house and there are local festivals/rituals you attend. Yes, there are informants.

If there are informants it implies that all informants know how many children people are supposed to have, otherwise they wouldn't know who should be ratted-out to the priests. Also for this to be effective the network of informants would need to be pretty extensive. That's the level of control no other fantasy setting I know about does. Which is why the clerics can simply stop adventurers from operating.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Yes, there are informants.

Yes, because cultivating mass paranoia as to who is the village snitch is fully compatible with the functioning of a close-knit communitarian society.

 

[Larianshill]

At last, a setting to surpass Tippyverse.

Spoiler

 

[Reinhardt]

Yes, there are informants.

Yes, because cultivating mass paranoia as to who is the village snitch is fully compatible with the functioning of a close-knit communitarian society.

And don't forget every informant must have access to full data to know if woman have church permission or not.

 

[Lacrymas]

If there are informants it implies that all informants know how many children people are supposed to have, otherwise they wouldn't know who should be ratted-out to the priests. Also for this to be effective the network of informants would need to be pretty extensive. That's the level of control no other fantasy setting I know about does. Which is why the clerics can simply stop adventurers from operating.

Sure, the network of informants is extensive. It literally doesn't matter, the churches have organized their shit. Some babies are going to slip through the cracks. And you would have been living in a culture where not having random babies has been drilled into you since birth. Why are adventurers a problem in this context?