Legal Enforcement Power Questions...


Pathfinder First Edition General Discussion


Hi folks,
i have some questions regarding Legal Enforcement Powers of the Inquisitor: is s/he authorized to arrest suspected criminals, perform searches with an appropriate warrant, question/interrogate/torture suspects, judge and/or execute condemned criminals? If so, by whose authority? Church or State? Does s/he need a confession to judge the criminal or even a trial? Help me with this judicial nightmare.
Thanx in advance.


More questions: does s/he even need a warrant to search private homes or a lincense to arrest people...questions, questions, questions.


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No class inherently has any legal standing in any campaign.

An inquisitor is a class. That class is suppose to sniff out enemies of the faith if they are hiding or before they attack the faith. They are simply the sneakier, more proactive side of a cleric or paladin.

Any legal standing an inquisitor has would have to do with the actual campaign.

An inquisitor of Asmodeus in a campaign set in Cheliax would mean that character probably has a lot of pull with the local authorities, but it's still the GMs call.

An inquisitor of Erastil from Andoran in that same campaign that is trying to make sure if events in Cheliax are likely to harm is treasured homeland is probably going to have zero standing in the same campaign, and probably doesn't want to advertise his presence if he can help it, again, subject to how the GM wants to run it.

So it's not a matter of anything inherent in the class, it's a matter of the GMs campaign and how much pull the inquisitor's faith has in the setting, as well as if the PCs inquisitor is in favorable standing with his own faith.


How about an Iomedeaen Inquisitor in Ustalav, Carrion Crown AP?


Well, again, that's up to the GM. Plus it has more to do with the AP in question than the general Pathfinder RPG rules.

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